Business and Politics In Indian Country - You Can't Handle the Truth

For generations, Indian Country has been told a comforting story: the system is working, the grants are flowing, and sovereignty is just another memo away. Business & Politics in Indian Country: You Can't Handle the Truth tears through that illusion. D. G. Comer-tribal-enterprise executive, controller, and unapologetic insider-shows how modern governance, federal incentives, and outside "helpers" quietly reward weak institutions while punishing competence. The results are predictable: stalled economies, revolving-door leadership, and communities forced to choose between political peace and real progress.

This isn't a complaint memoir. It's a field manual. Comer maps the levers that actually move outcomes: transparent accounting, merit-based hiring, procurement discipline, 8(a) realities, casino cash-flow traps, the weaponization of "culture," and the quiet colonization of tribal governance by consultants and vendors who never pay a price for failure. He pairs hard receipts with plain language and checklists leaders can implement on Monday morning.

You'll find case-level analysis, tough chapters on health and education, and a blueprint for governance that can withstand politics-documented, measurable, and teachable. The tone is unsparing but hopeful: tribes can build world-class systems without begging for permission or copying failed models.

For tribal leaders, council members, enterprise boards, auditors, policy makers, and citizens who want Indian Country to win-without illusion-this book is both a reckoning and a roadmap.

"If a system protects feelings more than futures, it's not culture-it's custody." - D. G. Comer

Title: Business & Politics in Indian Country: You Can't Handle the Truth

Author: D. G. Comer

Imprint/Publisher: Heck Fuzzy Publications

Publication Language: English

Edition: First