Indigenous Governance Database
Brendan Pedersen
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Bankshot Episode 46 Report: Ignored by banks, Indigenous communities build their own financial system
As seen from the air, the land is an expansive, grayish-brown terrain cracked open by the winding Missouri River with scattered clusters of black dots. On the ground, the dots become cows — so many cows — and the land becomes a roiling sea of prairie grass heaving under currents of wind you can see…