Cheyennes faced total economic marginalization, cut off from both banks and border-town jobs.

Evidence

The Northern Cheyenne realized that unless there was some long-term work done to address these symptoms, each time the coal companies came back to the reservation, the community would be prey. In response, Native Action took on two strategies—economic justice and education. Since the tribe had been aggressively fighting the coal mines and the companies, the local pro-development townspeople and businesses were hostile towards tribe members. As Gail explains it, non-Indians in the bordering towns rarely hire Cheyennes. There is no bank on the reservation, and very few Indian-owned businesses. Very little money generated from the reservation stays on the reservation, with most going to the offreservation coal towns. The Cheyenne also found that there were virtually no loans going to the reservation, although a good portion of tribal members operated ranches. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 478

Categorization

• XREF: Direct institutional parallel to the diamond bourse and law-merchant materials — a community excluded from formal credit structures builds its own economic counter-institution. Also relevant to Milgrom on institutions filling knowledge gaps.
• ADDENDUM: The CRA campaign below is the living continuation of legal-institutional struggle over Native land, connecting White Earth and the broader doctrine-of-discovery terrain across this polyad.