Hatch The Future

The Future of Indigenous Entrepreneurship Hosts Amy Pearl and Simon Love have a candid conversation with Native American activists, authors,entrepreneurs, and leaders, April Lemly (Cherokee), Se-ah-dom Edmo (, Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce and Yakama) and James Parker (Chippewa Cree).  They discuss identity as Native Americans, and challenges faced by leaders and entrepreneurs in their communities.  The conversation explores the limited access to resources that Native Americans have and why community capital is important and relevant: “community capital and community organizing are fundamentally about structural political and social change.”   The effort to tear down the political and structural barriers that block Native Americans from entrepreneurship unites the guests with the hosts. The conversation also covers the issues of considering all American tribes as one people, the hundreds of different land treaties that were written,and the way in which people talk about Native Americans.  This episode i