ICT - Business http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business RSS Feed for ICT - Business en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT Rekindle your spirit at Native-themed spas http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47768937.html Regardless of cultural background, people from all walks of life enjoy being pampered. But imagine being pampered in a spa where the aroma of sage or sweetgrass fills the air and the services offered are distinctly American Indian themed. Seneca Nation grows with almost $100 million in capital improvement projects http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47932127.html SENECA NATION – The Seneca Nation of Indians is in tune with the main characteristic of the spring season – growth. KwaTaqNuk resort gets new tour boat http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/49441617.html POLSON, Mont. (AP) – Four weddings and a funeral are already booked on The Shadow, a 65-foot-long and 149-passenger tour boat that slid into the waters of Flathead Lake for the first time earlier this month. Crow Creek Sioux Tribe furthers development with advanced broadband CLEC business http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/48252912.html FORT THOMPSON, S.D. – The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe took a historic step to further business, economic, social and educational development on the Crow Creek Reservation by establishing Native American Telecom – Crow Creek, LLC, a tribally-owned advanced broadband CLEC telecommunications business. Donoma Energy promises green off-the-grid ‘economic sovereignty’ http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47931637.html TEMECULA, Calif. – A new Native-owned green energy company is promising to move tribal nations toward economic sovereignty by helping them develop their own renewable energy resources and getting off the grid. Catalyx, Inc. and Ramona Tribe start work on 100 percent renewable energy ecotourism resort http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/48256402.html ANAHEIM, Calif. – Catalyx, Inc. has been contracted to be the technology provider and will team with the Ramona Band of the Cahuilla Indian Tribe to develop the tribe’s eco-tourism resort near Anza, Calif. Prescription drug abuse in Indian country http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/48251062.html WASHINGTON – Tribal communities facing an increase in prescription drug abuse are being offered a two-day training program by Lamar Associates. New American Indian casino resorts thrive in spite of slowed economy http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47518907.html The Tulalip Resort Casino, located about 30 miles north of Seattle, sits near Puget Sound amid some of the most beautiful countryside in the United States. Connecticut officials wage press release battle over Keno http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47931122.html HARTFORD, Conn. – In what could be called the battle of the press releases, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Gov. Jodi Rell are duking it out over a proposal to introduce Keno in Connecticut to raise state revenues. NIGC reports 2.3 percent increase in Indian gaming http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/47930432.html WASHINGTON – Although the economic recession is having an impact in Indian country, Indian gaming took in $26.7 billion in 2008, an increase of 2.3 percent over the prior year.