Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America

Robert J. Miller is a Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. He is a member of the Navajo Nation Council of Economic Advisors and the American Philosophical Society. He is also the Interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He sits on the Grand Ronde Tribe and Northwest Inter-Tribal Courts of Appeals. He is the author of Reservation 'Capitalism': Economic Development in Indian Country (2012). Miriam Jorgensen is a Research Director of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. She is co-founder of the University of Arizona Indigenous Governance certificate program and editor of Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (2007). Her work - in the US, Canada, and Australia - focuses on Indigenous governance and development and has addressed issues as wide-ranging as welfare policy, policing and justice systems, natural resources, cultural stewardship, land ownership, enterprise management, financial education, and entrepreneurship. Dan Stewart is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga University. He is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and the co-editor of American Indian Business: Principles and Practices (2017). In addition to his academic work, Dan is president of Dardan Enterprises, a diversified commercial construction firm.