NATIVE 17

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 enables America's Indian tribes to be the most powerful commercial enterprises in the United States. True tribal self-determination and self-sufficiency will never be attained without leveraging the IRA to attract private capital to credible tribal for-profit projects. Dennis Ickes of Native 17 developed the intellectual property that engineered the first acquisition by a tribe using a unique IRA leverage strategy. Decades of experience as a highly ranked federal official, tribal lawyer, and businessman enabled Mr. Ickes to coalesce the tribe, investors, and the target business into a 100% tribally owned multimillion dollar business... Economic development is the only means by which tribes will ever achieve optimum self-sufficiency and political self-determination. However, economic development must not destroy or diminish the quality of tribal land, its water, its animals, its people, or its air resources. Further, economic development should..

Also known as: Native 17, LLC

Primary location: Salt Lake City United States