Native American Vending

Im working to solve Native American poverty amongst Native Americans on reservations due to white encroachment on our major areas of commerce we were forced to leave to now reservation camps. I believe a major grocery department store like Wal_Mart could bring major employment and community growth. Of course we would have to persuade a major organization like Wal-Mart to come on board a reservation with an substantial growth like Popular Montana as an example where my children's tribe is located. A GIS could be done on the area to see if the population could meet building the stores work force demands. With places like Wal Mart or even possibly a home depot Native communities in reservation area camps could improve economic status but also rebuild communities and homes while providing foods and necessities to survive and live in an ever growing modern society.

It is quite simple, Wal-Mart, Target, or Lowes builds the store, and the Native community provides the labor force which provides jobs for the younger and older generations that want and need to work. It also provides means of fixing and caring for homes as hopefully start building other avenues for growth and economic development. With job labor brings responsibility and financial stability, as reason for other Native American entrepreneurs to bring prosperity to reservation life.

Communities that would thrive with a program like this would be Popular, Montana, Wolf Point, Montana, Crownpoint, New Mexico, Ship Rock, Arizona, Ashland, Wisconsin, or Tuba City, Arizona. A Major store on a reservation that people can honor in their community would bring happiness and job opportunities, which also would bring food, water, pharmacies (other than IHS), resources to fix and rebuild their homes which is all within a distance of tribal members (where they don't have to drive absurd miles to obtain common necessities). Walmart could even continue to hire native security at night to patrol the parking lots which would provide even more jobs.

This would have to be spearheaded by a special board of tribal chairmen and council members. This is deep in my heart to see our Native populations thrive and succeed even if it doesn't mean receiving all the credit, or responsibility. I believe my college schooling in Native American history, Contemporary Issues, Native American Studies, and my limited time living on reservations have given me deep insight into the needs of our native people. This has always been our tribal member's agenda to thrive and prosper once again as a Native American Pan Americanism.

I will get to see Native people start to prosper once again in their own communities. Also, get the privilege to enjoy a superstore instead of driving several towns over to access their needs. I would hope Solve would help put together a board of council members from all tribes that would qualify and be willing to participate to meet with these big corporations like Walmart to build their stores in well-populated Native American reservation communities where we could have economic gain, and provide a (GIS) placed store(s). 

My idea provides financial gain, food, pharmacies, inside stores that Walmart allows operating within their stores, as it is a convenience to water and necessities that a lot of Native Americans on reservations have to travel long distances to obtain. It would attract other commerce and provide more Native jobs and opportunities on reservations, as the better abilities to fix and build our own homes.

I would like to build excitement within Native American communities knowing they will and are going to prosper, and to leave reservation life to start employment can become a memory, or thing of the past, and no longer a must!

I'm taking courses in GIS that help solve daily problems for experts all around the world. I look at it as my job to provide models and data to the experts in accomplishing their daily tasks, and agendas.

I would expect to see a change in economic growth and health, as it becomes easier and better to provide and take care of themselves financially, health-wise medically, and with home improvements that bring long-term stability with economic growth exponentially. I believe the quality of life would be greatly increased, as in the proof of casino impacts on reservations life, and culture has brought many more opportunities and awareness to native life now.

I believe a firm GIS program to identify the needs of the people and to find the correct area of location for the store project would greatly affect the success rate of the program, especially with a delegate of all tribes to host Walmart, Lowes, or a Target in partnering with North American tribal reservations.

Walmart (or another corporation) would bring a diversity of other people who would have to come into the community to work within the native community to train the workforce.

My business model is to incorporate an already functioning corporation into impoverished areas of reservation life that are able to demonstrate economic growth through a GIS evaluation. This would enable tribal members and those living within reservations to have vital and necessary services and products they need provided them, in which everyone would benefit!

As the board, council, or delegation payments would go for payment services rendered for each successful negotiation by tribe and corporation for establishing and further establishing negotiations of tribes that are found to most benefit through a GIS evaluation.

Through the buying and flipping of products, and providing products as a service.