Up until the 1980s, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of Highland, Calif., were dirt poor, with a 75 percent unemployment rate. Joe Kalt (from left), co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, participates in a discussion with Anita Fineday, corporate counsel, Mille Lacs Corporate Commission Taylor Keen, vice president for economic development, Cherokee Nation Enterprises and Gregg Shutiva of Acoma Business Enterprises.
