Native America Calling: Indigenous business and the unpredictable new trade landscape

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Thursday, April 3, 2025

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The unpredictable new trade landscape

Indigenous business leaders in the United States and all over the world will now have to adjust to the uncertain effects of President Donald Trump’s aggressive new series of tariffs.

Economic experts predict some measure of chaos in the short term. It’s impossible to predict how the tariffs will play out in the long run, but it will certainly affect everything from the beads used in regalia to groceries to auto sales.

Trump insists the new tariffs will put American businesses on a more level playing field and boost the federal government’s coffers. Tune in to hear how Native business experts are responding to the new economic reality.

Guests on Native America Calling

Tabatha Bull (Nipissing First Nation), president and CEO of Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, based in Ontario, Canada

John Desjarlais (Cree-Métis), executive director of the Indigenous Resource Network in Canada

Dante Biss-Grayson (Osage), founder of Sky-Eagle Collection, a fashion brand and business in New Mexico

Tally Monteau (Hunkpati Dakota and Chippewa-Cree), program manager for TRIIA , an online artists’ platform created by the Native American Development Corporation (NADC) in Montana, and beadwork artist

Benjamin Haile (Shinnecock), owner of Thunder Island Coffee Roasters, a business based on the Shinnecock Nation in New York