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Speakers tout Native economic strength

Two business experts delivered powerful and poignant messages to Indian Country economic development advocates on Monday during the Montana Indian Business Alliance conference.

Manley Begay Jr., faculty chair of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership at the University of Arizona, and Andy Wells III, president of Wells Technology in Bemidji, Minn., provided keynote speeches about successful business ventures in tribal communities.

“The key to sustainable economic development in Indian Country lies in how Native nations govern themselves,” said Begay, who is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. “Self-determination is the only policy that ever worked.”

By JODI RAVE of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/04/21/news/mtregional/news08.txt

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