Has anyone here done business in the Navajo reservation?

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Anyone here done business in the Navajo reservation?

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Nava-no

I just looked it up. Honestly I had no idea it was this big.

The supreme court recently quietly gave almost half of Oklahoma back to the indians.

my parents were missionaries to The People

they really cant handle firewater. the stereotype in grounded in truth. however they will drunk you under the table. they dont blackout

On a camping trip back in the 80s, stopped at a store on the Navajo nation for some supplies. Was looking for breakfast stuff and asked the clerk if they had any grits. He looked up and said, "What the frick is a grit?" We didn't have any grits for breakfast.

I lived in New Mexico for a while and it was an eye-opening experience. Amazing as far as what talented artisans they are but very sad when you see the rampant alcohol abuse.
Driving through Gallup NM anytime of the day or night is crazy.

Proceed with caution if doing legit “business dealings”. A very good friend of mine got used up, chewed up & spit out once he did their entire business plan, Negotiated MSA’s, set up entire business model & logistics protocol for a tank-truck fracking water transport business up in Minot, North Dakota.

My buddy is a good hearted guy, had trucks, huge office trailer, went all in and trusted the the tribal leader while they ironed out their agreement & they kept delaying that side of it while my buddy put all the pieces of puzzle together, once they learned from him, they turned on him like a rattle snake and nothing he could do about it.

I visited up there & seen some of it go down in front my own eyes. I know you can’t or at least I don’t generalize every race or culture by one experience.

But I also had a screwed up situation at the casino up there with the same tribe (forget the name of tribe in North Dakota)?, but if you get hot on roulette wheel, they will straight up change the “max bet” when you win, and pay you according to the “new max bet” placard they put on the table.

And don’t dare ask questions, it was weird and scary at same time. But you certainly don’t wanna mess with security at a reservation Casino, lol

And this was middle of day & no drinking, so this is just what they do apparently if you start winning at some of these deals.

So I for ONE, don’t have a great feeling about doing business.

But on the other hand, I have my own non-profit and 2 years ago for Christmas, I raised one 18’ trailer full of clothes & furniture, books and coats for kids etc… and shipped it to Oklahoma with a Joint Venture deal with a church out of Alexandria, LA

The stories & pics I seen of the tribe of this thread is HEARTBREAKING.

Legit water, diaper and food lines , those peeps have a real struggle i Feel bad for them, thus I try to help when I can.

We've got some crude pipelines, tank batteries and compressor stations in ND on the reservation. I've only been up there a couple times but it's like a different planet. The homes are run down if you can even call them that. Trailers, broken down boats and cars everywhere. You pay them for entry passes, road passes, lease taxes, everything they can think of. if you're there after dark you better have a damn good reason, people have gone missing on the reservation. They don't mess around with the white devil.