Gabe Galanda: Calling on all casino managers to Buy Indian!

Monday, June 14, 2010  

"Tribal Casino Managers:

As you know, fueled by a stable $26 billion in annual gross gaming revenues, tribal governmental gaming operations wield hundreds of millions of dollars in Indian purchasing power. You wield the tribes’ enormous purchasing power. You hold the purse strings.

Before tribes might pass Tribal Buy Indian Acts that mandate their casinos’ procurement of Indian goods and services, Indian Country needs your help. We need you to dedicate tribal casinos’ purchasing power to Indian goods and services, not because you have to but because “it’s the right thing to do.” Buying Indian really is the right thing to do, for Indian Country.

As the post, Calling All Tribal Leaders! explains, Buy Indian is critical to the development of a tribal small business sector. It is important for you to understand the reality of not having Native family-owned businesses flourishing on the reservation you are helping improve through the tribe’s gaming enterprise."

Get the Story:
Gabriel S. Galanda: Buy Indian Part II: Calling All Casino Managers! (Galanda Broadman Blog 6/14)