About Indigenous Biz
What is Indigenous Biz?
Strongbow Strategies is providing training for Indigenous entrepreneurs and business leaders under contract with the Office of Native American Affairs (ONAA) of the
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
Training will be focused on topics from our Industry Needs Analysis and will include topics such as:
Business Planning and Start Up, Government Contracting, Banking & Accessing Capital, Time/ Financial and Record Management, Selling a Business & Succession Planning
and Risk Management & Insurance.
Tools for Native Entrepreneurs: Our Efforts to Build Prosperity
We believe that by building a strong locally driven and values aligned private sector that tribal communities and her peoples will build up nations that have suffered decades long lack of investment, social injustices, and subpar infrastructure.
Building an economy by us and for us is the path to true self sufficiency and it starts with us.
Training Built on Analytics & Data
Indigenous Business Leaders know all the statistics that more than 80 percent of Native American owned businesses will fail in the first 5 years, that getting access to capital is near impossible, that the odds are stacked against them to succeed and yet we see time after time many following the call of owning and building a business.
The entreprenurial spirit in tribal communities is ancient and aligns with values such as self determination, self reliance and investment in keeping benefits local to our home communities. This series aims to touch on topics that will be of the most benefit to both individuals and entity owned business leaders.
We have based the curriculum on feedback from people living on and near tribal lands as well as from input on renowed national experts who have taken the leap and succeeded and sometimes failed so they can provide participants with lessons learned and valuable insights.