Entrepreneurial spirit lands Montana State University Billings students in first place in national American Indian Business Plan competition

The American Indian Business Leaders team of Montana State University Billings brought home the national championship last week, and while the trio’s business venture is just beginning, it’s the sixth national championship won by MSUB’s AIBL.

The competition’s platform encourages business and marketing students to identify culturally significant business plans to boost the economies of American Indian reservations.

The student organization, consisting of the team’s president Bessie Crooked Arm, 21, Sabrina Half, 23, and Violet Birdinground, 21, presented a business plan for the children’s book they produced, "Lily Good Path Becomes the Buffalo," during a conference in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 8 and 9. They competed against AIBL clubs with universities from Alaska to Colorado.

Their company is called Bakaate, meaning "children," in the Apsaalooke (Crow) language.

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