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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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The role of culture in human-environment interaction among recreational anglers in Southwest Florida
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Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native community development financial institutions
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Wildlife stewardship on tribal lands: Our place is in our soul
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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)
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The transition to catch shares management in the West Coast groundfish trawl fishery: Changing job attitudes and adjusting fishing participation plans
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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)
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The partial truths of compensatory and poor-get-poorer internet use theories: More highly involved videogame players experience greater psychosocial benefits
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Adapting to catch shares: Perspectives of West Coast groundfish trawl participants
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Online gaming involvement and its positive and negative consequences: A cognitive anthropological “cultural consensus” approach to psychiatric measurement and assessment
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Home, half a world away: The cultural logic of acculturation among Indian international students at Colorado State University
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The subjective well-being of international students: A case for anthropological theory and method
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Gendered commodity chains: Seeing women's work and households in global production
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Destination Pine Ridge: A longitudinal case study of barriers to collaboration in culturally appropriate tourism initiatives
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Holistic community development and participatory connections on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
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Native American communities and tourism as development: Pine Ridge Reservation case study
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American Indian watch fobs: Evidence of cultural entrepreneurial continuity and change
