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Profile Series: Nellie McClung

Profile Series: Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung was one of the “Famous Five” who asked the Supreme Court of Canada to legally recognize women as persons under the British North America Act. The Supreme Court ruled against the petitioners but in 1929, the British Privy Council overturned the court’s...

Profile Series: Jean Allard

Profile Series: Jean Allard

The Jean Allard I knew was a big man, a strong man, forceful, utterly determined. He had an adequate sense of his worth, but that was based more upon his ideas than on hubris. He had seen enough of the world’s troubles to have the essential humility of one who never...

Profile Series: Scott & Trent Young

Profile Series: Scott & Trent Young

Trent and Scott Young are two Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs and business leaders who are proving that Indigenous entrepreneurs can be successful in all sorts of business ventures, including ones that are not tied to an Indigenous cultural focus. There is still a...

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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye

The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...

Profile Series: Chanelle Armstrong

Profile Series: Chanelle Armstrong

For Chanelle Armstrong, 31, creating her family business Stay Native was a chance to turn a growing New Zealand tourism industry into an opportunity to promote self-reliance among the Indigenous Māori. Many Māori businesses aim to help their community. “Being a social...

Profile Series: Kawana Wallace

Profile Series: Kawana Wallace

Kawana Wallace, 27, is an Indigenous entrepreneur who has been able to harness his technical skills to revitalize the Māori language. Wallace is a co-founder and CEO of my Reo Studios, a New Zealand-based software company providing bilingual (English and Māori)...

Profile Series: Lily Stender

Profile Series: Lily Stender

For Lily Stender, 49, Māori business leader, being a trustee of the Tolaga Bay Inn is a way to place the historic enterprise in Māori ownership as well as foster economic, cultural and social development in the local community. “When we acquired it, making money was...

Profile Series: Lee Timutimu

Profile Series: Lee Timutimu

Lee Timutimu, 43, is leading the ideal life of an Indigenous entrepreneur by combining his love for Māori storytelling with his experience in information technology (IT) into a successful business. Timutimu is the founder and CEO of Arataki Cultural Trails, an IT firm...

Profile Series: Bailey Mackey

Profile Series: Bailey Mackey

For Māori business leader Bailey Mackey, entrepreneurs are born, not made. “You either have it or you don’t,” said the award-winning producer and CEO of Pango Productions, a production company he founded that is involved in TV and movie productions around the world....

Profile Series: Terrie Brigham

Profile Series: Terrie Brigham

For Native American entrepreneur Terrie Brigham, 46, commercial fishing is not just a business venture, but has defined her family and tribe for generations. When she and her family set up Brigham Fish Market in Cascade Locks, Oregon, it was just a continuation and...

Profile Series: Chad Germann

Profile Series: Chad Germann

Native American entrepreneur Chad Germann, 45, believes that the path to Indigenous entrepreneurial success is in careful thought and self-development. “You need to figure out a way to be valuable to others,” said Ger- mann, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band...

Profile Series: Jessica Mehta

Profile Series: Jessica Mehta

For Jessica Mehta, 36, an ambitious and intelligent Cherokee entrepreneur from Oregon, the key to business success is to “do it with a mindset of service.” “If you look at any large successful enterprise, you will see that is at the center,” she said, in a phone...