Organized and hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, this event brought together economists, legal scholars, policymakers, and others interested in recent research on economic development in Indian Country.

Agenda [PDF]

Remarks, Papers, and Presentations

• Welcome and Overview, Narayana Kocherlakota, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Lessons in Fiscal Federalism from Indian Country, Terry Anderson, President, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute; and Dominic Parker, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin and Senior Research Fellow at PERC
  • Paper [PDF]
  • Presentation [PDF]
  • Comments on Lessons in Fiscal Federalism from Indian Country, [PDF] Paul Glewwe, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
• Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations, Randall Akee, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University; Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona; and Uwe Sunde, Professor of Economics, University of St. Gallen
  • Paper [off-site]
• An Indian and International Development Perspective on Robert J. Miller's Reservation "Capitalism": Economic Development in Indian Country, Larry Chavis, Assistant Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Unversity of North Carolina
  
  • Paper (Book Review) [PDF]
    
  • Presentation [PDF]
• Indian Country Economic Development: Data and Data Gaps, Richard M. Todd, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Paper [PDF]
  • Presentation [PDF]
  • Comments on Indian Country Economic Development: Data and Data Gaps, [PDF] Alicia Robb, Research Associate in Economics, University of California-Santa Cruz and Research Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The capstone to a series of workshops held throughout the country in 2011, this national summit drew tribal leaders, policy makers, financial industry professionals, and community development service providers together for a multidisciplinary dialogue about economic development in Native communities.

Additional information, including summit overview, agenda, and companion report [off-site]

Video: Growing Economies in Indian Country summit sessions (recorded live) [off-site]

Agenda [PDF]

Federal Agency Resource Presentations (reflects all presentations provided as of September 1, 2011)

• U.S. Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund [PDF]. David Scherler, CDFI Fund Porfolio Manager
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs. [PDF] Edward Vaughan, Native American Program Specialist
• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Tribal Relations, Office of the Secretary. [PDF] Dustin Miller, Program Specialist
• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. [PDF] Susan Woodrow, Community Development Advisor
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development. [PDF] Stephen Manydeeds, Acting Director
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development, Division of Capital Investment. [PDF] Deanna Comeau, Credit Officer, Northwest Zone
• U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. [PDF] Elaine Raper, Manager, Eastern Montana and Dakotas District
• U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency, Native American Procurement Technical Assistance Center. [PDF] Mary Walks Over Ice, Supervisory Procurement Specialist, Native American Development Corporation, PTAC

Agenda [PDF]

Speaker Biographies [PDF]

Keynote Presentation

• The Partnership for Sustainable Communities [PDF]. Rick Garcia, Regional Administrator to the Secretary on the Sustainable Communities Initiative, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Case Study Presentations

• The Montana Department of Commerce Indian Equity Fund [PDF]. Philip Belangie, Entrepreneur Development Program Manager, Montana Department of Commerce
• Oki Communications, LLC—A Blackfeet Tribal Enterprise [PDF]. Jay Wilson Preston, President and CEO, Ronan Telephone Company