Tribally run business owners and individual Native American entrepreneurs are preparing for tariffs and other international trade shifts if Donald Trump delivers on his promise to enact tariffs on good from certain countries. Trump initiated a trade war during his first term that hampered tribes and business that trade directly with foreign countries or that readily use foreign products. We’ll find out how Native companies with foreign ties are preparing.

GUESTS

Wayne Garnons-Williams (Plains Cree from Moosomin First Nation), chair of the International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organization

Larry Chavis (Lumbee), economist and business school professor

Tyler Tawahongva (Hopi), owner of Cloud 9 Recycling

James Collard, director of planning and economic development for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Break 1 Music: Mr. Businessman’s Blues (song) DM Lafortune (artist) Beauty and Hard Times (album)

Break 2 Music: I Am the Beginning and the End (song) Dorothy Tsatoke (artist) Native American Healing Songs Come to me Great Mystery (album)

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