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Member Blog | September 21, 2008 3:40 pm | 0 recommendations

Amazement is Magical

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello my relatives.   I amaze myself every so often, and that's both fun & magical.  Then again, sometimes...

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Member Blog | September 10, 2008 8:27 pm | 0 recommendations

We're Twenty-One (of us) Again. Ahhh!

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

We're back up to 21 members. I like this. I still don't know why we lost that member, and may never, but I'm not a happy loser, especially when I...

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Member Blog | September 3, 2008 8:57 pm | 0 recommendations

Oops and Ouch! and We Don't Know Why

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I got a notice from Fast Company that they removed one of our group's members "for activity deemed...

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Member Blog | August 24, 2008 5:04 pm | 0 recommendations

21 & Climbing!

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello my relatives.   We're at 21 members now.  The winning number in blackjack..  An excellent number in the...

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Member Blog | August 14, 2008 1:28 pm | 0 recommendations

Fund-Raising Idea

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I was listening to NPR a couple of mornings ago and heard a story about a man challenging the incumbent for...

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Member Blog | August 11, 2008 8:17 pm | 1 recommendation

One Person "Can't" Do What??

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi. Recently, I was hit with that old garbage about "one person can't make a difference". Few -isms irritate me as much...

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Member Blog | July 22, 2008 2:38 pm | 0 recommendations

Majority Culture Mentors Have Hearing Problem

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Recently, I was discussing the perennial problem minorities have with finding startup funding with a Caucasian "successful...

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Member Blog | July 21, 2008 7:55 pm | 0 recommendations

We are Now 13 of Us!

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello, my  relatives.  We are now 13 of us.  In the Traditional ITI Way, 13 is an important number because it is the number of...

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Member Blog | July 21, 2008 7:48 pm | 0 recommendations

Francisco Dao's Dynamite Posting

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Francisco couldn't get this to re-post here, so gave me permission to do it.  For me, this is one of those...

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Member Blog | July 13, 2008 4:09 pm | 0 recommendations

Attitude!

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Recently, I was speaking to a group of non-Indns about micro-business and there was a heckler who said, "You have a lot...

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Member Blog | July 10, 2008 4:22 pm | 0 recommendations

We are now 10 of Us!

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

I'm always stunned when people climb on a wagon I'm already on. Not because I lack confidence in myself or have a low level of self-worth, but...

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Member Blog | July 7, 2008 1:27 pm | 0 recommendations

More on the Desirability of Staying Small in Business

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

It is entirely possible to be too small to meet the demand for whatever a given small business produces, and therefore too small to be able to get...

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Member Blog | July 5, 2008 2:34 pm | 0 recommendations

The Desirability of Staying Small in Business

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Some time back, someone asked me why we at Indian Maid want to stay a small business, rather than try to take over the markets for our products. ...

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Member Blog | July 5, 2008 1:37 pm | 0 recommendations

We Are Now 8

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

The symbol we call '8' is also the mathemtatical symbol for infinity. In the Traditional ITI way of looking at things, the symbol for infinity is...

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Member Blog | July 3, 2008 12:44 pm | 0 recommendations

We Are Now 7 of Us

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  In the way of my People and many other ITI, 7 is a holy number.  When we pray, we address 7 Directions - The Four Directions of...

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Member Blog | July 2, 2008 12:30 pm | 1 recommendation

How Big Is a Micro-Business Loan?

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi. Recently, I was helping some people apply for a startup loan for a micro-business when one of the bureaucrats asked me about the...

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Member Blog | June 28, 2008 1:38 pm | 0 recommendations

Why We Want to Stay "Micro"Entrepreneurs

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakyapi. Every so often, someone asks a question that seems really off in left field on the surface, but actually begs for a considered...

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Member Blog | June 26, 2008 8:30 pm | 1 recommendation

Repercussions of "Custer's Last Stand" Need to End Now

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  I tried to post this yesterday but it wouldn't go, so here it is today.  On June 25, 1876, a thug named George...

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Member Blog | June 24, 2008 1:08 pm | 0 recommendations

Thoughts on Indns and Obstacles We Face

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Hanh mitakuyapi.  I'm going to make a confession at the start of this post.  Actually, it's a multi-aspect confession.  I call these...

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Member Blog | June 23, 2008 4:47 pm | 0 recommendations

If You Don't Have a Credit Rating..

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

Of recent years, it seems you don't have a chance to establish yourself in business unless you have a lot of family...

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Member Blog | June 15, 2008 5:49 pm | 0 recommendations

Politics and Minority Micro-Business Encouragement

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

When I started my first business, I was five years old.  Five.  I could read and write (not print) by the time I was four.  I learned to...

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Member Blog | June 4, 2008 12:59 pm | 0 recommendations

Successful Minority Micro-Business Incubators

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

The objective of a minority micro-business incubator is support and growth of successful minority micro-businesses resulting in decreased welfare,...

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Member Blog | June 3, 2008 4:57 pm | 0 recommendations

Even a Trickle, Properly Focussed, Helps

| posted by Carel Two-Eagle

In the Lakota Way, if a person has an ability, s/he has a responsibility to use it to help others, and in so doing, increase the prosperity of all....

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Micro-entrepreneurs

| by Carel Two-Eagle

Dedicated to the proposition that it is better to help someone start a micro-business than to orient them to 'finding a job' or facing welfare. Even...

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