From stewart at oweesta.org Tue Jul 3 14:11:56 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:11:56 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] NATIVE CDFI AWARD Announcement: CDFI Fund Director to Announce 2007 NACA Program Awards on Friday, July 6th at Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota Message-ID: For Immediate Release July 2, 2007 Contact: Bill Luecht (202) 622-8042 MEDIA ADVISORY CDFI Fund Director Kimberly Reed To Announce $3.6 Million in Awards Under the 2007 NACA Program on Friday, July 6th at Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota Four South Dakota Organizations among National Award Recipients Director Kimberly A. Reed of the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund will be at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota on Friday, July 6th to announce the organizations across the nation that have been selected to receive $3.6 million in awards under the 2007 round of the CDFI Fund's Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Program*. The Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota has been chosen as the site for the national award announcement to highlight the four South Dakota-based award recipients: First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Rapid City); The Lakota Fund (Kyle); Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial, Inc. (Pine Ridge); and the Teton Coalition, Inc. (Rapid City) - all leaders in serving the community development needs of their Native communities. The awardees were selected after a competitive review of 29 applications received by the CDFI Fund from organizations across the nation that requested nearly $11 million in funding under the 2007 round of the NACA Program. Who: CDFI FUND DIRECTOR KIMBERLY A. REED What: $3.6 MILLION NATIONAL AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT When: FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2007 AT 9:00 A.M. (MDT) Where: CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL AVENUE OF THE CHIEFS, OUTDOOR STAGE CRAZY HORSE, SOUTH DAKOTA 57730 About the NACA Program The NACA Program is designed to encourage the creation and strengthening of community-based lending organizations known as Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that primarily serve Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Organizations funded through the NACA Program serve a wide range of Native Communities, and reflect a diversity of institutions in various stages of development - from organizations in the early planning stages of creating a CDFI, to tribal entities working to certify an existing lending program, to established CDFIs in need of further capacity building assistance. Two types of funding are available: financial assistance awards (available only to certified CDFIs and primarily used for financing capital) and technical assistance grants (used to acquire products or services such as computer hardware and software, staff training, etc.). For more information on the NACA Program, please visit www.cdfifund.gov. Forward to a friend Unsubscribe from CDFI's Newsletters Change format of future eMessages -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you decide that you are interested in starting a credit union in your tribal community, you can apply to enroll in the full program, "Steps to Creating a Native Credit Union," which includes a comprehensive three-day training and individualized technical assistance to support you at every stage of building a credit union. The session will be offered online on July 24-26 and October 2-4. Both of those sessions will be from 3:00pm to 5:00pm ET each day. Click here to register. Call us! Please call us if you are interested in attending the session! Please contact me at 215-320-4343 or mdatta at opportunityfinance.net, or Bill Guevara of Oweesta at 707-465-5330 or bill at oweesta.org. ---- A Native Credit Union in Action: The average loan at Lac Courte Oreilles Federal Credit Union (LCO) in Hayward, WI, is just $600 -- well below the minimum that other local financial institutions are willing to lend. But these small loans have a big impact. "The idea is that we do a simple, low-cost loan so our people won't have to go to a pawn shop or a payday lender or a check cashing store," says LCO's President. "If they keep coming in our door, we keep exposing them to more and more financial education, and, hopefully, we start to keep more wealth in our own community." In 2006, over 22% of LCO's total loan portfolio was in anti-predatory loans. ---- Mamata (Mini) Datta Bill Guevara Opportunity Finance Network First Nations Oweesta Corporation 215.320.4343 707-465-5330 mdatta at opportunityfinance.net bill at oweesta.org www.opportunityfinance.net www.oweesta.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Comments are due September 14. The draft and background information, along with details about phone forums on July 18 and 19, are at http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=171216,00.html . Independent Sector's initial analysis is at http://www.independentsector.org/programs/gr/Draft_Form_990.htm . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070705/03142c72/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Thu Jul 5 12:54:39 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:54:39 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] Appeals Court Upholds Tribal Court - Important Banking Related Ruling Message-ID: Please see story here: http://indianz.com/News/2007/003672.asp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Learn how you can help tribal members become homeowners by helping make the mortgage approval process more efficient. Share your experiences regarding mortgage loans and get your tough questions answered by industry experts. This workshop is free and space is limited. Learn more about these workshops, and register today at: http://www.frbsf.org/community/resources/events.html or http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=48943&orgId=cddfrb Questions? Contact Craig Nolte at (206) 343-3761 or at craig.nolte at sf.frb.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, Theresa Carmody, Director Indian Land Working Group 2401 12th St., NW - #206N Albuquerque, NM 87104 Phone: (505) 247-9561 Fax: (505) 247- 9561 or (505) 345-9964 OWEESTA Developing Native Assets :: Building Native Communities Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Director of Training and Technical Assistance First Nations OWEESTA Corporation 1010 Ninth Street, Suite 3 Rapid City, SD 57701 stewart at oweesta.org www.oweesta.org tel: fax: mobile: (605) 342-3770 (605) 342-3771 (605) 430-9398 Add me to your address book... Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070705/f373524f/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A Native American Focused Community Development Financial Institution Organization: The Native American Lending Group (NALG), a not-for-profit Community Development Financial Institution was created to provide Native American tribes, businesses and individuals access to private capital investment for business, infrastructure and housing. Seeking EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Position Summary The Executive Director oversees all lending, portfolio management, technical assistance and other operations of NALG. Responsibilities include technical assistance to pueblos and potential borrowers, product design and implementation, marketing, underwriting, fundraising, presentations to loan committee and closing and monitoring loans. Qualifications: The ideal candidate possesses demonstrated skills, knowledge and experience in the following areas: * Extensive experience in lending and credit analysis; experience in Native American loan programs and New Mexico markets is preferred; * Experience in and/or knowledge of the community development and affordable housing or small business fields or Native American loan programs through HUD or BIA; knowledge of and experience working with public subsidy programs preferred; * Experience with loan committees and/or not-for-profit Boards of Directors; and * Mastery of community development finance and an understanding of market niches in the field. If you are interested, please submit letter of intent with resume and references to: Enterprise Community Partners Native American Program 320 Osuna Road NE, Building D Albuquerque, NM 87107 Fax: 505.345.9034 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In preparation for the 2007 Tax year, the NFEC is looking to improve upon the toolkit and content of the Native EITC website, therefore are asking for you time to review and comment on the information posted at www.oweesta.org/eitc. Here are some suggestions to get started: 1. Did you use the templates for the ads, flyers and paycheck stuffer? 2. If so, were they easy to edit and incorporate your Tax Site information into it? 3. What changes would you suggest to improve the existing templates? 4. Were the templates easy to download? 5. Suggestions for additional outreach tools? 6. What additional information would you like to see on the website? Please email your comments to lanalles at qwest.net . Thanks for your time. Lanalle Smith Executive Director Navajo Partnership for Housing, Inc. 1613 S. 2nd Street Gallup, NM 87301 Ofc: 505 722 0551 Cell: 505 870 2156 Fax: 505 722 5029 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070706/5f113873/attachment-0001.html From stewart at oweesta.org Fri Jul 6 15:38:37 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:38:37 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] Treasury Awards $3.6 Million to Distressed Native American Communities Message-ID: Treasury Awards $3.6 Million to Distressed Native American Communities Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:00:00 -0500 July 6, 2007 HP-484 Treasury Awards $3.6 Million to Organizations Serving Economically Distressed Native American Communities Crazy Horse, South Dakota - The director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, Kimberly A. Reed, visited South Dakota's Crazy Horse Memorial today to announce awards totaling $3,632,292 to 19 organizations serving Native American or Alaskan Native communities in 12 states. The awards were made through the CDFI Fund's Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Program. "Today, we are recognizing 19 Native organizations that are on the front lines to provide important financial education, create critically needed jobs and help Native families and communities build personal wealth," said CDFI Fund Director Reed. "We are very pleased to know that the over $3.6 million being awarded today will provide these community-based lenders the resources to do more of this important work in Native American and Alaskan Native communities." Treasury held the national award announcement at the Crazy Horse Memorial to highlight the four South Dakota-based award recipients: First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Rapid City), The Lakota Fund (Kyle), Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial, Inc. (Pine Ridge), and the Teton Coalition, Inc. (Rapid City) - all of which are leaders serving the community development needs of their Native communities. The awardees were selected after a competitive review of 29 applications received by the CDFI Fund from organizations across the nation that requested nearly $11 million in funding under the 2007 round of the NACA Program. Since 2002, the CDFI Fund has made 148 awards totaling $23.1 million through its various funding programs aimed at benefiting Native communities. In five short years, the number of Native CDFIs has grown from 14 to 43 - a 307 percent increase. In addition, the CDFI Fund has awarded over $7.5 million in contracts to organizations that provide capacity-building and financial services training programs that are focused on Native Communities. Background The CDFI Fund invests in and builds the capacity of community-based, private, for-profit and non-profit financial institutions with a primary mission of community development in economically distressed communities. These institutions - certified by the CDFI Fund as community development financial institutions, or CDFIs - are able to respond to gaps in local markets that traditional financial institutions are not adequately serving. CDFIs provide critically needed capital, credit and other financial products in addition to technical assistance to community residents and businesses, service providers, and developers working to meet community needs. In 2004, the CDFI Fund introduced the NACA Program, which was specifically designed to encourage the creation and strengthening of CDFIs that primarily serve Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Organizations funded serve a wide range of Native communities, and reflect a diversity of institutions in various stages of development - from organizations in the early planning stages of creating a CDFI, to tribal entities working to certify an existing lending program, to established CDFIs in need of further capacity building assistance. Two types of funding are available: financial assistance awards, available only to certified CDFIs and primarily used for financing capital; and technical assistance grants used to acquire products or services such as computer hardware and software, staff training, etc. The CDFI Fund's vision is an America in which all people have adequate access to affordable capital, credit and financial services. For more information about these awards, or about the CDFI Fund and its programs, please visit the Fund's website at: http://www.cdfifund.gov . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070706/0b11fbb5/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Fri Jul 6 18:44:38 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:44:38 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] Oweesta Receives Native CDFI Funding Award Message-ID: PRESS RELEASE Oweesta Receives Native CDFI Funding Award Contact: Jody Sarkozy-Banoczy For: Immediate Release (605) 342-3770- jody at oweesta.org Date: July 6, 2007 Rapid City, SD/// With Crazy Horse Memorial as a backdrop on this beautiful summer day in the sacred Black Hills of the Lakota, the staff of First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Oweesta) joined with colleagues from other Native CDFIs to accept their 2007 Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Award from the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund. Oweesta was awarded $149,912.00 from the CDFI Fund to be used for financial management course development, Our Native Circle ( www.ournativecircle.org ) website support, policy and system upgrades, as well as staff salaries to grow these efforts and others for the growing Native CDFI market. "All our staff and consultants share in this award and the success that we continue to strive for in our work throughout Native communities," stated Oweesta's Director of Training & TA, Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy. "This is a huge team effort and we all want to see the local groups become strong and self-sufficient - it is why we do what we do and we congratulate all the awardees throughout the country" Nineteen organizations from diverse Native communities have been awarded a total of $3,632,292 for a wide variety of activities specific to the locally led effort. 18 awardees received technical assistance awards totaling $2.3 million and 3 awardees received financial assistance awards totaling $1.3 million. Awardees are located in 12 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. "Every milestone, every success for these local groups, we celebrate with them," said Elsie Meeks, Executive Director of Oweesta. "Native CDFIs are having an impact in our Native communities and the time has come to move towards true economic sovereignty with the development of assets and wealth for individual Native people." Oweesta (www.oweesta.org ) is a national Native CDFI intermediary based in Rapid City, SD. Oweesta helps build strong Native institutions and programs through professional services designed to build local capacity and provide powerful tools for Native community development. Oweesta's primary programs and services are: * Training, TA & Consulting * Capitalization * Research, Policy & Advocacy ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070706/061cf74a/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 2305 bytes Desc: image001.gif Url : /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070706/061cf74a/attachment-0001.gif From stewart at oweesta.org Mon Jul 9 14:36:53 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:36:53 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] =?iso-8859-1?q?75=A0Legislators_Support_Matched_Saving?= =?iso-8859-1?q?s!=A0_Ask_YOUR=A0=A0Senators_and_Representatives=A0?= =?iso-8859-1?q?to_Support_Individual_Development_Accounts!?= Message-ID: Lizza, pictured above, is a saver in the SEED Policy & Practice Initiative. Foundation Communities in Austin, TX is helping her reach her dream of one day owning a pet store. The Savings for Working Families Act (SWFA) of 2007 , H.R. 1514 & S. 871 currently has 75 co-sponsors ! Contact your Member of Congress now to increase support for matched savings to help low-income working families build wealth. Click here to send an e-mail to your Representative, urging them to support H.R. 1514. Click here to send an e-mail to your Senator, urging them to support S. 871. Savings Matches and Financial Education for 900,000 SWFA is a tax-credit bill that would enable low-income families to have their savings matched $1:$1 through an innovative matched-savings mechanism: Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). IDAs encourage families to save for one of three uses: purchasing a first home, pursuing post-secondary education or training, or starting or expanding a small business. Individuals would be eligible for an annual $500 match for four years. Financial institutions would provide the match and receive an offsetting federal tax credit. The bill provides $20 million for non-profit organizations and tribes to provide financial education to IDA participants. IDAs provide an opportunity for families to enter into the financial mainstream by opening checking and savings accounts, receiving an incentive to save, and purchasing an asset to promote their financial self-reliance. Financial institutions who match the savings of IDA participants are eligible for an annual per account tax credit of $50. Encourage your Legislators to Co-Sponsor H.R. 1514 & S. 871 At 900,000 accounts, SWFA would be an 18-fold increase in IDAs. If enacted, it would provide Congress with an opportunity to address the country's negative personal savings rate and wealth gap. If you do not see either your Representative's or Senator's name on the co-sponsors list below, we urge you to contact them and request that they co-sponsor the legislation. Click here to send a letter to your Representative and click here to send a letter to your Senator. You can also call your Legislator's office through the Capitol Switchboard at: (202) 224-3121. The bills remain bi-partisan with 20 (12D/8R) co-sponsors in the Senate and 55 (28D/27R) co-sponsors in the House of Representatives. Co-sponsors include the following legislators (Senators' names in italics): AR: Lincoln (D), Pryor (D), Boozman (R); CA: Becerra (D), Filner (D), Lofgren (D), Matsui (D), Watson (D); CO: Salazar (D); CT: Lieberman (ID), DeLauro (D), Shays (R); FL: Martinez (R), Nelson (D), Meek (D); GA: Gingrey (R), Marshall (D); HI: Abercrombie (D); IL: Emanuel (D), Rush (D), Schakowsky (D), Shimkus (R); IN: Bayh (D), Souder (R); KY: Bunning (R), Davis (R), Lewis (R), Rogers (R); LA: Landrieu (D); ME: Snowe (R), Collins (R), Allen (D), Michaud (D); MD: Wynn (D); MA: Kerry (D) MI: Stabenow (D), Ehlers (R), Hoekstra (R), McCotter (R), Walberg (R); MS: Cochran (R); MO: Clay (D); MT: Rehberg (R); NE: Terry (R); NY: Maloney (D), McHugh (R); NC: Dole (R), Hayes (R), Jones (R), McIntyre (D), Myrick (R); OH: Brown (D), Tubbs Jones (D); OK: Boren (D); OR: Smith (R), Blumenauer (D); PA: Casey (D), Dent (R), English (R), Gerlach (R), Peterson (R), Pitts (R), Platts (R); TN: Cohen (D), Davis (D); TX: Brady (R), Gonzalez (D), Hinojosa (D), Johnson (D); VT: Welch (D); VA: Warner (R), Davis (R), Wolf (R); and WA: Cantwell (D), Larsen (D). If you no longer wish to receive mail from us, please click here . ________________________________ About this Alert CFED coordinates this electronic policy series. Alerts are issued periodically-as activity warrants-and are augmented by updates to keep people informed on an on-going basis. ________________________________ 777 N Capitol St NE Suite 800 Washington DC 20002 Ph: 202.408.9788 Copyright ? 2004 CFED -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070709/2051f05f/attachment-0001.html From stewart at oweesta.org Tue Jul 10 11:03:23 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:03:23 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] NCRC New Study: Income is No Shield Against Racial Differences inLending - All Metro Areas Examined Message-ID: Applicable to Native communities, especially urban areas... July 10, 2007 TO: Colleagues, Practitioners, Stakeholders FROM: Josh Silver, Vice President of Research and Policy RE: New Study Shows Lending Disparities Climb as Income Does Dear Colleagues: This new study released today looks at all metropolitan areas in the United States, large, small, and in-between. It finds startling racial disparities in high-cost lending. The disparities increase as income levels increase. The study is available on http://www.ncrc.org. For Immediate Release July 10, 2007 Contact: Jesse Van Tol (202) 464-2709 jvantol at ncrc.org Study by National Community Reinvestment Coalition Reveals Race Disparities in Lending; High Cost Lending Targeted at Minorities Leave Communities Vulnerable to Foreclosure (Washington, DC) -- A looming "perfect storm" of foreclosures confronts Americans as up to 2 million adjustable rate mortgages with low "teaser" rates will adjust upward to much higher interest rates over the next 18 months. Against the backdrop of risky high-cost lending practices are striking racial disparities, finds NCRC's most recent study, Income is No Shield against Racial Differences in Lending: A Comparison of High-Cost Lending in America's Metropolitan Areas, released today. The report is a comprehensive study of every major metropolitan area in the country. Minorities are at the greatest risk of receiving poorly underwritten, high-cost loans, the study finds. Middle- or upper-income levels do not shield minorities from receiving dangerous high-cost loans. NCRC observes that racial differences in lending increase as income levels increase. For example, in 167 metropolitan areas, middle- and upper-income (MUI) African-Americans were found to be twice as likely or more than twice as likely than MUI whites to receive high-cost loans. In contrast, low- and moderate-income (LMI) African-Americans were twice or more likely than LMI whites to receive high-cost loans in just 70 metropolitan areas. "The pervasive targeting of minorities for high-cost loans is systemic. This is the first wave of foreclosures to hit America's consumers, but will not be the last. These practices must stop. We need leadership from the federal government and real reform to protect American homeowners," says John Taylor, NCRC President & CEO. NCRC finds that the ten worst metropolitan statistical areas for racial lending disparities are (in descending order) Charleston, SC; Bridgeport, CT; Omaha, NE; Milwaukee, WI; Springfield, MA; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Philadelphia, PA; Trenton, NJ; Birmingham, AL; and Greenville, SC. In a previous study, NCRC found that lending disparities did not disappear even after controlling for creditworthiness. But the creditworthiness data was only available on a one-time basis. In anticipation of a Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission study using credit score data, NCRC believes this data needs to be regularly available so all stakeholders can better understand the factors behind these disturbing disparities. NCRC calls upon Congress to pass strong anti-predatory lending legislation. Senator Schumer's Borrower's Protection Act of 2007 or S. 1299 would require sound underwriting based on borrowers' ability to pay and prevent lenders from steering minorities and other protected classes to high-cost loans when they qualify for market-rate loans. NCRC also calls on Congress to pass the CRA Modernization Act of 2007, which would apply the Community Reinvestment Act to non-bank lending institutions. CRA, as applied to banks, has been shown to increase market-rate lending and increase product choice in minority and working class communities. # # # Josh Silver Vice President of Research and Policy National Community Reinvestment Coalition (202) 628-8866 or http://www.ncrc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070710/280fb559/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Wed Jul 11 09:15:33 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:15:33 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] 2007 American Indian Scholarship Program Message-ID: $Account.OrganizationName 2007 American Indian Fellowship in Business Scholarship Each year, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development awards scholarships to American Indian college or graduate students majoring in business. Scholarships are awarded at the Indian Progress in Business Awards Banquet (INPRO) at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. INPRO 2007 will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2007. In addition to the scholarships, recipients are provided airfare (from within the U.S. only) and lodging to attend INPRO. Recipients must be available to attend the event. ________________________________ Five American Indian Fellowship in Business Scholarships will be awarded to American Indian college students majoring in business who are currently in their junior, senior, or master level of study. Eligible students must be enrolled full time during the entire 2007/2008 term. Application deadline is August 3, 2007. Please pass this information to anyone who may qualify and wish to apply. click here for application and more information... ________________________________ 2006 Scholarship Recipients * Jon Panamaroff (Sun'Aq Tribe of Kodiak, Alaska), University of Colorado-Denver * Tonya Vanderpool (Native Village of McGrath), University of Alaska Southeast * Natalie Bergquist (Lower Brule Sioux), National American University * Penelope Jackson (Spirit Lake Sioux), University of North Dakota * Jessica Tyner (Cherokee), Portland State University ________________________________ click here for more information on INPRO 2007 ________________________________ The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development ________________________________ email: events at ncaied.org phone: 480-545-1298 ext. 243 web: http://www.ncaied.org Forward email This email was sent to ssarkozy at oweesta.org, by events at ncaied.org Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe (tm) | Privacy Policy . 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NNI RESEARCH Recent work by staff and affiliates of the Native Nations Institute -- The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination (Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, 2007) -- American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations (Eric D. Lemont, ed., 2006) -- "Organizing Indigenous Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States" (by Stephen Cornell, 2007) -- "Contributions of the Earned Income Tax Credit to Community Development in Indian Country" (by Kristen Wagner, Karen Edwards, Miriam Jorgensen, and Dana Klar, 2006) II. RECOMMENDED READINGS Materials that NNI researchers recently have found valuable for thinking about Indigenous self-determination and nation building -- "An Indian Trust for the Twenty-First Century" (by Kevin Gover, 2006) -- "Moving Toward Exclusive Tribal Autonomy over Lands and Natural Resources" (by Stacy L. Leeds, 2006) -- "Indian Water and the Federal Trust: Some Proposals for Federal Action" (by Judith V. Royster, 2006) -- "Population and Diversity: Policy Implications of Emerging Indigenous Demographic Trends" (by John Taylor, 2006) -- "Imagined Geographies: Sovereignty, Indigenous Space, and American Indian Struggle" (by John Biolsi, 2005) PLUS, descriptions of research projects worth watching, news, sound bites, and other bits of information -------------------- To view or print a copy of the report, please visit: http://nni.arizona.edu/resources/NNIRR06 Sincerely, Stephen Cornell, Director Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Miriam Jorgensen, Associate Director for Research Native Nations Institute *************************************************************** NNI Research Report NATIVE NATIONS INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND POLICY Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy The University of Arizona 803 East First Street Tucson, AZ 85719 USA Tel 520 626-0664 Fax 520 626-3664 http://nni.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although there are youths who decide to invest the per capita income into homes, used cars, college education and certificates of deposit, some spend a large sum of money and have little to show for it, said Cindy Chandler, investment analyst for EBCI. She said that often, the youths receiving the money do not realize that there may be tax ramifications for such a substantial payout and do not save or invest a portion of the funds for the future. The minors of the EBCI receive per capita payments in a lump sum at the age of 18, provided that they have received a high school diploma or an approved GED certificate and transcript. Those who do not meet either of these requirements must wait until the age of 21 to receive their trust monies. Since there is not a tribal-wide financial education program in place, Chandler encourages the youths to talk with her office about spending or investing the money wisely and Qualla Financial Freedom exists to help educate the community. Roseanna Belt, director of Western Carolina University's Cherokee Center, which houses Qualla Financial Freedom, said, "It's just so critical with the huge amounts of money that young people are coming into that not only they, but their families know how to invest this money. It is very easy to waste," she said. Belt also said, "We want our folks to learn very early that they can control their money and their money doesn't have to control them. We're very sensitive that we don't try to tell people what they have to do because it is their money." First Nations Development Institute formed a partnership with the EBCI through Qualla Financial Freedom in April 2007 to educate Cherokee youth on the basics of finances and investment. EBCI will serve as a model community for the InvestNative Project created by FNDI. To educate Eastern Cherokee youths on investor and financial education, the curriculum developed by FNDI will be incorporated into EBCI's "Summer Youth College Experience." Negotiations are underway for other ways in which the curriculum can be incorporated. Karen Kennedy, financial operations director for EBCI, said, "We want to create a system so that youths are prepared for the decisions that they need to make when they get this large sum of money." The tribal council also is considering revisions in tribal law that would stagger per capita distributions over a number of years. Staggering distributions may help reduce income tax liability and allow time for tribal members to learn how to manage the money well. "The investment training requires discipline, self-discipline and caring about the future. I think that as long as our community is trained and knows that it can control the money instead of vice-versa, then it will just make for a healthier community," Belt said. "And I'm hoping that it affects education, in terms of more and more youth going to college." For the latest information on the InvestNative Project and the "Building Native Communities - Investing for the Future" curriculum released in late 2006, see the First Nations Web site at www.firstnations.org. Also, Chandler encourages Minor Funds participants to call her office if they have questions or concerns at (828) 497-7031. Through a three-pronged strategy of education, advocacy, and capitalization, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally compatible stewardship of the assets they own - be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources - and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070711/6ac9c6d3/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT23656.txt Url: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070711/6ac9c6d3/attachment-0001.txt From staci at oweesta.org Tue Jul 10 13:05:30 2007 From: staci at oweesta.org (Staci Lacroix) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:05:30 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] Oweesta Receives Native CDFI Funding Award - July 6, 2007 Message-ID: PRESS RELEASE Oweesta Receives Native CDFI Funding Award Contact: Jody Sarkozy-Banoczy For: Immediate Release (605) 342-3770- jody at oweesta.org Date: July 6, 2007 Rapid City, SD/// With Crazy Horse Memorial as a backdrop on this beautiful summer day in the sacred Black Hills of the Lakota, the staff of First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Oweesta) joined with colleagues from other Native CDFIs to accept their 2007 Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Award from the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund. Oweesta was awarded $149,912.00 from the CDFI Fund to be used for financial management course development, Our Native Circle ( www.ournativecircle.org ) website support, policy and system upgrades, as well as staff salaries to grow these efforts and others for the growing Native CDFI market. "All our staff and consultants share in this award and the success that we continue to strive for in our work throughout Native communities," stated Oweesta's Director of Training & TA, Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy. "This is a huge team effort and we all want to see the local groups become strong and self-sufficient - it is why we do what we do and we congratulate all the awardees throughout the country" Nineteen organizations from diverse Native communities have been awarded a total of $3,632,292 for a wide variety of activities specific to the locally led effort. 18 awardees received technical assistance awards totaling $2.3 million and 3 awardees received financial assistance awards totaling $1.3 million. Awardees are located in 12 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. "Every milestone, every success for these local groups, we celebrate with them," said Elsie Meeks, Executive Director of Oweesta. "Native CDFIs are having an impact in our Native communities and the time has come to move towards true economic sovereignty with the development of assets and wealth for individual Native people." Oweesta (www.oweesta.org ) is a national Native CDFI intermediary based in Rapid City, SD. Oweesta helps build strong Native institutions and programs through professional services designed to build local capacity and provide powerful tools for Native community development. Oweesta's primary programs and services are: * Training, TA & Consulting * Capitalization * Research, Policy & Advocacy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070710/ea9bd9d9/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070711/fa379781/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Thu Jul 12 09:34:14 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:34:14 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] New on ArizonaNativeNet.com!: Building and Sustaining Tribal Enterprises Message-ID: INFORMATION FROM NATIVE NATIONS INSTITUTE (Please forward to your listservs--distribute and post attachment) ?Building and Sustaining Tribal Enterprises? Seminar Slated to Debut on ArizonaNativeNet.com on Monday, July 16, 2007 Contact: Ian Record, Native Nations Institute (520) 626-0664; recordi at u.arizona.edu As part of its mission to provide Native nations, leaders and students with dynamic learning resources designed to strengthen Native communities, ArizonaNativeNet.com is proud to announce the unveiling of the ?Building and Sustaining Tribal Enterprises? educational seminar, which will debut on the website on Monday, July 16, 2007. Conducted by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI) at the University of Arizona (www.nni.arizona.edu), this one-day intensive seminar offers comprehensive tools and knowledge critical to building and sustaining tribally owned enterprises. Drawing on two decades of community based research by NNI and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, the seminar also presents case studies of successful tribally-owned enterprises from Arizona, Washington, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Through its videotaped presentations, curriculum materials, and helpful web links, the seminar illustrates the fact that sustained community and economic development among Native nations?particularly the operation of successful tribally owned enterprises?depends on the following characteristics: ? Practical sovereignty: a willingness and ability to assert self-governing power ? Capable governance: putting in place respected, stable, non-politicized dispute-resolution mechanisms; separating politics from business management; and building effective bureaucracies ? Cultural match: creating institutions whose form builds upon indigenous conceptions of authority ? Strategic orientation: approaching development not as a quick fix, but as a means of building societies that work ? Leadership: a group of individuals who recognize the need for fundamental change in the way things are done and can bring the community along with them in building the future Coming soon to ArizonaNativeNet.com: ? Forum on Tribal Sovereign Immunity (Debut: July 23, 2007) ? Emerging Leaders: Native Nation Building (Debut: July 30, 2007) ArizonaNativeNet.com Bridging the Educational Digital Divide with Native Nations -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To better serve entrepreneurs, many rural organizations are discovering that they need to work closely with policy makers-whether city or county officials or state legislative or agency staff-to ensure that microentrepreneurs are provided the support they need to flourish and contribute to rural economies. You will leave this webinar with: * 3 distinct examples of policy initiatives, and strategies most suited for each * a technique for quickly mapping your policy network and identifying "keystone" individuals critical to your policy success * a checklist of organizational capacities needed for effective policy work and how you can enhance those capacities To register for this webinar and to learn more about the other webinars in the Rural Pathways to Success series, visit http://www.microenterpriseworks.org/index.asp?bid=709 or contact Mike Skinner at mskinner at assoceo.org . Register right up to the event! Current participants of AEO's Kellogg-funded rural projects may be entitled to additional discounts and, before registering, should contact Natalie Woodroofe at nwoodroofe at assoceo.org for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070712/0453004b/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Fri Jul 13 13:26:24 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:26:24 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] New Legislation: NATIVE AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HOUSING ACT OF 2007 Message-ID: Something for Tribes, Native people and organizations to keep their attention on. INTRODUCTION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HOUSING ACT OF 2007 HON. STEVAN PEARCE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Mr. PEARCE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to introduce the "Native American Economic Development and Infrastructure for Housing Act of 2007." I am joined in this effort by my colleagues, Chairman BARNEY FRANK, Representatives DALE KILDEE, DAN BOREN, and RICK RENZI who I want to thank for their support. [Page E1495] This legislation will help Native Americans build stronger and better communities all across America. The demonstration project embodied in this bill will help Native Americans build not only improved neighborhoods, but the economic infrastructure to support those communities in some of the most rural and impoverished areas in America. Currently, communities that receive direct funding from the Community Development Block Grant program may borrow or issue bonded debt for up to five times their annual CDBG allocation. This is known as the Section 108 loan guarantee program and encourages economic development, housing rehabilitation, public facilities and large-scale physical development projects. Title VI of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act, NAHASDA, is similar to the Section 108 statute and allows tribes to borrow or issue bonded debt for up to five times their annual NAHASDA allocation for housing purposes only. The Title VI program has been underutilized in part because the eligible projects are strictly limited to activities that do not generate sufficient income to pay back these loans. We all know that economic development and infrastructure needs are acute in Indian Country. This legislation gives tribes the same access to vital economic and infrastructure resources that non-tribal communities currently use. Under this program, an applicant would have to demonstrate to the Secretary that 70 percent of the benefit of the proposed project would go to "low-income Indian families on Indian reservations and other Indian areas." This is similar to the CDBG program, which requires that 70 percent of a project's benefit be for low- and moderate-income families, and ensures that proposed projects meet the need of the communities we all seek to support. I urge my colleagues to join us in sponsoring this legislation so that we can support the efforts of local tribal communities as they work to improve their infrastructure and economies and to increase opportunities for Native American families. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The purpose of the pre-conference is to provide orientation for new Native American participants, introduce key concepts in the field of SRI, and encourage dialogue and networking with SRI practitioners The 2007 SRI in the Rockies Conference will follow the pre-conference event from November 3-6 (http://www.sriintherockies.org/). Discounted registrations will be provided to all pre-conference attendees. Limited scholarships covering registration and travel will be available. For more information on the pre-conference event: Sylvia Panek, Social Investment Forum sylviapanek at socialinvest.org , 202-872-5346 Susan White, Chair IPTF and Director, Oneida Trust Department swhite at oneidanation.org , 920-490-3935 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Remember every vote counts in the every election of NCAI's future leadership. Registration is Easy! To register online please click the link below, view the invitation, and respond by clicking either the Yes or No button at the bottom of the invitation. Please click here to register Visit the NCAI Website For more information on the 64th Annual NCAI Conference such as the draft agenda, please visit the NCAI website at http://www.ncai.org. Your early response is greatly appreciated. If you are not the right person for this or if you know of someone else who would like to attend, please forward this on to them. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in Denver! Sincerely, Jacqueline Johnson Executive Director National Congress of American Indians * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Having trouble with the link? Simply copy and paste the entire address listed below into your web browser: http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?1Q,P1,2D54F282-4684-49EA-A3EE-E09EED21F9C7 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070719/877f0e98/attachment.html From stewart at oweesta.org Thu Jul 19 18:39:22 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:39:22 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] Article: A new economic era for Native communities - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Community Dividend Message-ID: A new economic era for Native communities By Elsie Meeks The following feature is adapted from a speech given by Elsie Meeks on the opening day of the South Dakota Indian Business Conference in Rapid City last February. The conference explored how private business development and entrepreneurship can help build flourishing tribal economies. 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The purpose of the pre-conference is to provide orientation for new Native American participants, introduce key concepts in the field of SRI, and encourage dialogue and networking with SRI practitioners The 2007 SRI in the Rockies Conference will follow the pre-conference event from November 3-6 (http://www.sriintherockies.org/). Discounted registrations will be provided to all pre-conference attendees. Limited scholarships covering registration and travel will be available. For more information on the pre-conference event: Sylvia Panek, Social Investment Forum sylviapanek at socialinvest.org , 202-872-5346 Susan White, Chair IPTF and Director, Oneida Trust Department swhite at oneidanation.org , 920-490-3935 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Opportunity Finance Network and Oweesta are searching for innovations to highlight at the Native Convening at our conference in Miami, Florida from December 11 - 14, 2007. If you have an "innovation" you'd like to share, please e-mail Mamata (Mini) Datta at mdatta at opportunityfinance.net or William Guevara at bill at oweesta.org with the following information: 1. Description of innovative product or service 2. Name of Organization 3. Contact Name 4. Contact Address 5. Contact phone number 6. Contact e-mail OWEESTA Developing Native Assets :: Building Native Communities Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Director of Training and Technical Assistance First Nations OWEESTA Corporation 1010 Ninth Street, Suite 3 Rapid City, SD 57701 stewart at oweesta.org www.oweesta.org tel: fax: mobile: (605) 342-3770 (605) 342-3771 (605) 430-9398 Add me to your address book... Want a signature like this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For Full Story Click on link below - http://www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/cd/07-3/era.cfm This article appeared in Issue No. 3, 2007, of Community Dividend, a community development publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/circleup_lists.ournativecircle.org/attachments/20070719/b586af47/attachment-0003.html From stewart at oweesta.org Wed Jul 25 13:49:57 2007 From: stewart at oweesta.org (Stewart Sarkozy) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:49:57 -0600 Subject: [CircleUp] NYT Article: Indian Tribe Becomes Force in West's Energy Boom Message-ID: Indian Tribe Becomes Force in West's Energy Boom Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Jim Keener of the Southern Utes' gas extraction company at a well in Durango, Colo. By SUSAN MORAN Published: July 24, 2007 IGNACIO, Colo. - Many American Indian tribes count on money-losing casino gamblers to generate most of the income for their members. The Southern Ute tribe, whose 700,000-acre reservation here in the San Juan Basin sits on one of the world's richest deposits of methane found in coal seams, is a lot luckier. Multimedia Ute's Oil Ute's Oil Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Dancers from several tribes waiting to perform at a powwow on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio. Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Clement Frost, the Southern Ute chairman, in a field where his boyhood home once stood, near Ignacio. He helps the tribe decide how to invest. After many years of struggling to gain control of its natural resources from big energy companies, the Southern Utes now control the distribution of roughly 1 percent of the nation's natural gas supply. Thanks to high gas prices in recent years and lucrative investments in and beyond the energy sectors, this once-impoverished tribe is now worth about $4 billion. Each of its 1,400 members is a millionaire many times over, on paper anyway. The Southern Utes are not just sitting on their wealth. They have become a model for other resource-based tribes and an energy powerhouse in Colorado . And as gas prices have softened, the tribe has recently sought to diversify by becoming a real estate investor, too, buying up swaths of valuable land and buildings in La Plata County and throughout the West. The local area has benefited from the tribe's largess as the biggest, and, many say, its most generous employer. But some residents are wary and even suspicious of the tribe's newfound clout. "The point is, no one knows what the tribe's plans are," said Josh Joshwick, a former county commissioner who currently works for an environmental organization in Durango on oil and gas issues. "I guarantee, it'll have a bigger impact than any organization on this community and on the whole La Plata County." The tribe, which runs its various businesses through an arm known as the Growth Fund, is extending its reach. It recently donated 25 acres on the eastern edge of Durango, the largest town in southern Colorado, so that an old hospital the county had outgrown could be rebuilt and expanded. The giveaway also made good business sense; the hospital, which opened a year ago, is attracting ancillary businesses and employees to a sprawling residential and commercial development called Three Springs that the tribe is building on 1,400 acres it owns. "You'll hear some people say they liked the tribe better when it was poor," said a local resident who declined to be identified for fear of jeopardizing relations between the tribe and the county. Clement Frost, the Southern Ute chairman, hears that kind of talk often. "I don't think people outside can accept how quickly the tribe has progressed to where we've become a political and economic force," he said in a recent interview in his spacious office in the tribal capital here in Ignacio. As a modern tribal leader, Mr. Frost wears many hats. One morning, he attended a retreat to make decisions about investing millions more of the tribe's funds in new ventures aimed at preserving wealth for future generations long after the last well is pumped dry. As evening approached he delivered the welcoming talk at a powwow. The next day he branded calves and bulls on his 158-acre ranch. >From his office window he used to look at double-wide trailers. Now he sees a plush $9.4 million recreation and community center built in 2000; a new elementary school; and a three-story, curved-glass building erected in 2005 that houses the tribe's business umbrella. Just up the road is a large construction site where a 150-room casino and conference center is going up to replace the existing 35-room gambling hall. If some neighbors have been reluctant to accept the Southern Utes' newfound financial prowess, Wall Street has not. In 2001, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings issued the tribe its first bond rating: a triple-A. Earlier this year both firms reaffirmed their ratings. "A big factor was the Southern Ute tribe's tremendous amount of reserves relative to the amount of need," said Karl Jacob, an analyst at Standard & Poor's who covers Native American tribes. "In a normal world, if you have reserves 50 percent of operations you're looking pretty strong. The tribe's reserves in its general fund in 2006 were 21.6 times expenditures." He attributed the tribe's sustained financial strength in part to business executives like Bob Zahradnik, who is a not a Native American. Formerly with Exxon , he went to work for the tribe in 1988 to help monitor energy companies' compliance with leases and to evaluate its mineral assets to bolster its negotiating clout. In 1991 Mr. Zahradnik drafted a business plan for the first tribe-owned energy business. Within a year he convinced the tribal council to begin the start-up, called the Red Willow Production Company, with $8 million in seed capital. When the tribe started buying back existing wells and leases, few lenders would shake Mr. Zahradnik's hand, much less extend their wallets. "We couldn't get any financing," Mr. Zahradnik said during a break from a two-day tribal leaders retreat at a golfing resort north of Durango. "Before we closed our first deal with Conoco and got in trade publications nobody believed we were credible. Now, with substantial assets and a triple-A credit rating, everybody wants to be our friend." Mr. Zahradnik has been the Growth Fund's operating director since its inception in 2000. The fund's executive director is Bruce Valdez, a Southern Ute who was raised on the reservation and worked for Arco before joining the tribal business two years ago. "We've come a long way from the tribe I grew up with to the tribe we are today," the soft-spoken Mr. Valdez said in an interview while drinking tea with Mr. Zahradnik. Wealth did not come suddenly to the Southern Utes, nor without struggle. Originally they were one of seven bands of the Ute tribe, which occupied nearly one-third of Colorado. In the 1870s the state's governor, Frederick Pitkin, in his drive to open up the Rocky Mountain's western slope to non-Indian settlers, ripped apart a major treaty. What became the Southern Ute tribe ended up with a fraction of the original land, and the reservation became a checkerboard of Southern Utes and non-Indians. Some 9,500 non-Indians live on the reservation today, far outnumbering the 1,000 Southern Utes (another 400 members live off the reservation) and 433 Native Americans of other tribes. After cutting deals with the Bureau of Indian Affairs , energy companies began drilling in the 1950s for natural gas. The tribe had little say, and received only paltry royalties. By the late 1980s, the energy boom was in full swing. As late as 1990 the Southern Ute tribe was still dirt poor, even though 63 oil and gas companies operated on its land. A major turning point came in 1991, when under the leadership of then-chairman, Leonard Burch, the tribe started buying back drilling rights and hiring its own oilmen to run the wells. Red Willow became the vehicle to manage energy production. "What tribes have been all about in modern history is taking back their reservations," said Charles Wilkinson, a law professor at the University of Colorado specializing in Native American law. "When the Southern Utes put a hold on oil and gas leasing, that was as powerful a statement as any tribe had made. It has been a signature of economic development for successful tribes, and this tribe has been as successful as they come." Red Willow now has interests in more than 1,000 wells and operates more than 450 on the reservation, making it the second largest here behind only BP . It is the 13th largest privately held energy producer in the United States, according to The Oil & Gas Financial Journal. The tribe employs more than 600 people in several states and is adding 10 jobs each month. It manages several subsidiaries, most started since 2000. The energy division owns 3,000 miles of pipelines, and it processes natural gas and delivers it to transmission pipelines and elsewhere. The energy businesses account for 93 percent of the Growth Fund's net income, according to Mr. Zahradnik, who would not disclose absolute figures. With natural gas production now dwindling from its peak in 2004 by 10 percent a year, the Fund's managers are aggressively expanding nonenergy investments, building commercial and residential complexes in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri and other states. Rent and other income from the properties is growing rapidly but it still generates only about 4 percent of net income. Some Southern Ute members have complained that the tribe relies too heavily on whites to run its businesses. Despite a policy to give preference to tribal members, only 61 of the fund's 631 employees are Southern Utes and another 40 are Native Americans of other tribes. Mr. Valdez, the only Southern Ute in a major business executive position, said he and others are actively trying to train and hire tribal members. One problem, he said, is that individual tribe members already receive a healthy income from the tribal coffers, diminishing, for some, the motivation to work. Years ago, teenagers received a lump sum when they turned 18. Some binged on alcohol and drugs. Some bought fancy race cars. In 1995 a teenage Southern Ute girl, who was Mr. Frost's niece, was killed by robbers after she cashed an "18 money" check worth thousands of dollars. After that tragedy the tribal council tightened the purse strings. It now distributes trust money in smaller installments to members under 25 and it holds off doling out cash until young members finish high school or get a G.E.D. As adults, tribal members receive a monthly check - roughly $1,400 at today's prices - that remains constant in real terms until at age 60 they become eligible for an elder's pension of about $65,000 a year. The tribe now offers full scholarships and living stipends for college. Dewayne Evensen is one of the more mature recipients. He entered a community college in New Mexico at age 47 before attending Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, where he earned both an undergraduate and a master's degree in business. He now works for a tribal subsidiary in Tulsa. Mr. Dewayne, 52, said he was grateful, but he is exploring other opportunities, including law school. "The tribe has also given me the ability to seek other avenues," he said. "On the other hand, the Growth Fund is so huge right now that it'd be hard to get around it." 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