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Featured press

The Opportunity Project finds ways to funnel investment to American Indian and Alaska Native communities

Read more about our development of an interactive Native CDFI workforce resource map using Census Bureau data.

Native News Online

Recent press

  • Crow organizations working to boost food accessibility on reservation

    Our collaboration with the Crow Nation to conduct a study on food availability on the reservation

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    KTVQ - Q2 News (2025)

  • CDFA Farm Equity Office publishes report and recommendations following tribal listening sessions

    Our work with the Intertribal Agriculture Council and California Department of Food and Agriculture's Farm Equity Office

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    California Department of Food and Agriculture (2024)

  • The Opportunity Project finds ways to funnel investment to American Indian and Alaska Native communities

    Our development of an interactive Native CDFI workforce resource map using Census Bureau data

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    Native News Online (2024)

  • Native CDFIs bring holistic approach to assessing credit risk

    With the Oweesta Corporation, we provided loan-level data from 11 participating Native CDFIs

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    Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2023)

  • The Housing Hub Podcast interviews Sweet Grass Consulting

    Michael Brydge’s interview with hosts Sophia Wickersham and Julie Keel

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    The Housing Hub Podcast (2022)

  • Village Earth partners in food hub feasibility study for Thunder Valley CDC

    Our collaboration on a feasibility study for developing a food hub on Pine Ridge

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    Village Earth (2021)

  • Lower Sioux multigenerational cultural incubator

    Our collaboration with Ferguson Pyatt Architects and the Lower Sioux Indian Community to create a community gathering space

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    BNIM (2021)

  • Meet the story tracker

    Our data collection helped in the creation of a new in-house data analyst role for First Peoples Fund

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    First Peoples Fund (2017)

  • Guardians of the Plains: One Lakota family’s plan to fend off South Dakota’s epic drought

    Michael Bryde’s contributions to a dam-building project for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

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    Yes! Magazine (2014)

  • Dakota pilot project: Only we can tell the story of our people

    Our collaboration with Big Water Consulting to conduct a tribally-sponsored housing needs survey

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    Big Water Consulting (2013)

Featured publication

Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native community development financial institutions

Learn how the Native CDFI industry plays an instrumental role in removing barriers to socioeconomic development in Native communities.

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Recent publications

  • The role of culture in human-environment interaction among recreational anglers in Southwest Florida

    Author: Max Van Oostenburg

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    ProQuest (2023)

  • Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native community development financial institutions

    Contributor: Andrea Mader

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    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (2023)

  • Wildlife stewardship on tribal lands: Our place is in our soul

    Contributor: Michael Brydge

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    Johns Hopkins University Press (2023)

  • Native CDFIs and continued resilience: Short-term responses with long-term impacts in pandemic times

    Author: Alyssa Camp

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    High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology (2020)

  • The transition to catch shares management in the West Coast groundfish trawl fishery: Changing job attitudes and adjusting fishing participation plans

    Contributor: Max Van Oostenburg

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    Society & Natural Resources (2020)

  • Slum upgrading and risk reduction: A case study of Colombian cities

    Author: Jackie Carter

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    Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (2019)

  • Barriers to purchasing condoms in a high HIV/STI-risk urban area

    Contributor: Jackie Carter

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    Journal of Community Health (2019)

  • Indigenous lessons about sustainability are not just for “all humanity”

    Contributor: Marie Schaefer

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    Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power (2018)

  • Social representations of masculinity in Mexican youth’s creative narratives

    Contributor: Jackie Carter

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    Boyhood Studies (2018)

  • The partial truths of compensatory and poor-get-poorer internet use theories: More highly involved videogame players experience greater psychosocial benefits

    Author: Max Van Oostenburg

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    Computers in Human Behavior (2018)

  • Adapting to catch shares: Perspectives of West Coast groundfish trawl participants

    Contributor: Max Van Oostenburg

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    Coastal Management (2018)

  • Online gaming involvement and its positive and negative consequences: A cognitive anthropological “cultural consensus” approach to psychiatric measurement and assessment

    Author: Max Van Oostenburg

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    Computers in Human Behavior (2017)

  • Home, half a world away: The cultural logic of acculturation among Indian international students at Colorado State University

    Author: Max Van Oostenburg

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    ProQuest (2014)

  • The subjective well-being of international students: A case for anthropological theory and method

    Author: Max Van Oostenburg

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    Furthering Perspectives: Anthropological Views of the World (2014)

  • Gendered commodity chains: Seeing women's work and households in global production

    Contributor: Andrea Mader

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    Stanford University Press (2013)

  • Destination Pine Ridge: A longitudinal case study of barriers to collaboration in culturally appropriate tourism initiatives

    Author: Andrea Mader

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    Colorado State University (2013)

  • Holistic community development and participatory connections on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

    Authors: Andrea Mader, Michael Brydge

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    The Applied Anthropologist (2012)

  • Working for the Lakota: The theory of participation

    Author: Michael Brydge

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    Colorado State University (2012)

  • Native American communities and tourism as development: Pine Ridge Reservation case study

    Author: Andrea Mader

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    Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence (2011)

  • English only in Valle Verde

    Author: Michael Brydge

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    Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence (2011)

  • American Indian watch fobs: Evidence of cultural entrepreneurial continuity and change

    Author: Andrea Mader

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    Furthering Perspectives: Anthropological Views of the World (2010)

  • Ethnicity and agricultural household decision making on the High Plains: Lakota cultural continuity and environmental ethics

    Author: Michael Brydge

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    Furthering Perspectives: Anthropological Views of the World (2010)

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