Native American Heritage Month
Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to Native American culture and identity.
Contemporary Collections
Contemporary Collections aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard University community at large.
Quick Research Resources
Dive into Tribal Business News, a digital publication delivering in-depth stories, analysis, and business intelligence on all aspects of Native business and economic development activities.
Browse the American Indigenous Studies Resources curated by Harvard Library.
View the U.S. Census Bureau's My Tribal Area data tool to view job and economic data on American Indian and Alaska Native tribal areas by state.
Use Statista's "Consumer Insights" tool to unpack consumer attitudes and behavior for American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Research US-based startups in Crunchbase (in-library only) that are lead or founded by Indigenous individuals.
Explore non-profit organizations via GuideStar Pro that list Indigenous Peoples as populations that they serve.
Use Leadership Connect to locate business leaders with a job focus on serving Native Americans.
Collection Spotlight
Uncovering hidden stories and knowledge in Baker Collections.
Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Food Processing as a Combined Economic Development Option for Indian Communities [1977]
This diagram comes from a 1977 report prepared for the Office of Minority Business Enterprise—a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It depicts the recycling of aquaculture and agriculture-derived cash flowing through a community: "If the community sets up its own business such as a motel, gas station, credit union, supermarket, variety store, etc., then the money initially flowing into this community from the basic community industries can be recycled as many as three or four times" (p. 32).
The diagram is part of a larger proposed business strategy for Native American reservations to realize cash flow through vertical economic integration.
Select Business & Economics Titles
Baker and Harvard Libraries have a variety of diverse titles, which are discoverable via HOLLIS.
Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table
Carol Anne Hilton
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Native American Entrepreneurs
Ron Sheffield and J. Mark Munoz
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Special Collections & Archives
Special Collections and Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from the 14th century to the present and the records of the Harvard Business School since its founding in 1908.
Seen and Unseen: Representations of Native Americans in Art, Advertising, and Commerce
Exhibition curated by Kabl Wilkerson, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, PhD Student, Department of History, Harvard University and 2022 Pforzheimer Fellow, Harvard Library, through the support of Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School and the Pforzheimer Fellowship, Harvard Library.
This web resource (formerly a physical exhibition) explores representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special Collections and the HBS Art and Artifacts Collection. Seen and Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and “medicinal” remedies.