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The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is based near Manistee, Michigan. The tribe’s forested watershed and timber holdings could seed a captive insurance pool that guards against wildfire loss, preserving land assets and fiscal independence. One path forward would be to create a tribal‑run captive insurance entity—named the Heritage Corridor Risk Pool—that could underwrite…
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Target: Muscogee (Creek) Nation, ancestral lands spanning the Chattahoochee River basin in western Georgia Opportunity: The state’s expanding photovoltaic market could turn underutilized tribal parcels into revenue sources that finance political advocacy and cut dependence on external utilities Mechanism: The tribe could create cooperative purchasing agreements among member businesses to jointly lease land for…