Business and Politics In Indian Country - You Can't Handle the Truth

<p>For generations Indian Country has been told a comforting story: the system is working the grants are flowing and sovereignty is just another memo away. <em>Business & Politics in Indian Country: You Can't Handle the Truth</em> tears through that illusion. D. G. Comer-tribal-enterprise executive controller and unapologetic insider-shows how modern governance federal incentives and outside helpers quietly reward weak institutions while punishing competence. The results are predictable: stalled economies revolving-door leadership and communities forced to choose between political peace and real progress.</p><p>This isn't a complaint memoir. It's a field manual. Comer maps the levers that actually move outcomes: transparent accounting merit-based hiring procurement discipline 8(a) realities casino cash-flow traps the weaponization of culture and the quiet colonization of tribal governance by consultants and vendors who never pay a price for failure. He pairs hard receipts with plain language and checklists leaders can implement on Monday morning.</p><p>You'll find case-level analysis tough chapters on health and education and a blueprint for governance that can withstand politics-documented measurable and teachable. The tone is unsparing but hopeful: tribes can build world-class systems without begging for permission or copying failed models.</p><p>For tribal leaders council members enterprise boards auditors policy makers and citizens who want Indian Country to win-without illusion-this book is both a reckoning and a roadmap.</p><p><strong>If a system protects feelings more than futures it's not culture-it's custody.</strong> - D. G. Comer</p><p></p><p><strong>Title:</strong> <em>Business & Politics in Indian Country: You Can't Handle the Truth</em></p><p><strong>Author:</strong> D. G. Comer</p><p><strong>Imprint/Publisher:</strong> Heck Fuzzy Publications</p><p><strong>Publication Language:</strong> English</p><p><strong>Edition:</strong> First</p><p></p>