{"id":454007,"date":"2017-11-01T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=454007"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:47:51","slug":"the-challenge-of-growing-a-business-on-the-navajo-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/11\/the-challenge-of-growing-a-business-on-the-navajo-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenge of growing a business on the Navajo reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a business is always challenging &#8212; but Native American entrepreneurs face unique challenges on tribal lands.<\/p>\n<p>For the State of Change series with the Solutions Journalism Network, New Mexico In Focus producer Sarah Gustavus takes us to the Navajo Nation to learn about efforts to encourage entrepreneurship. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandcanyontrust.org\/native-american-business-incubator-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Native American Business Incubator Network<\/a>\u00a0offers training and business support to a variety of entrepreneurs. One client,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/North-Leupp-Family-Farms-Inc-385826951446247\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Leupp Family Farms<\/a>\u00a0on the western edge of the Navajo Nation, provides space for subsistence farming, and farm manager Stacey Jensen is also looking for ways to create jobs and economic opportunity through a farm market stand and value-added products like blue corn meal that can be sold directly to consumers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/starting-growing-a-business-on-the-navajo-reservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-4BXaTilE6w?rel=0\" width=\"771\" height=\"433\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This\u00a0report is part of the State of Change project, a multi-newsroom examination of\u00a0the challenge of building resilient rural communities \u2014 and what some\u00a0in New Mexico are doing right.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/series\/state-of-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a business is always challenging &#8212; but Native American entrepreneurs face unique challenges on tribal lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":452123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118,709],"class_list":["post-454007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-economy","tag-native-americans","series-state-of-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}