INDIAN TRIBES: BUSINESS PARTNERS AND MARKET PARTICIPANTS

• Jurisdiction: United States

Natural Resources Development on Indian Lands
(Mar 2011)
CHAPTER 3A
INDIAN TRIBES: BUSINESS PARTNERS AND MARKET PARTICIPANTS
A. David Lester
Council of Energy Resource Tribes
Denver, Colorado

A. DAVID LESTER has served as the Executive Director of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), based in Denver, Colorado, since 1982. Prior to joining CERT, David served as Commissioner for Native Americans in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, appointed under President Carter in 1978 and re-appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1980. While in ANA, he restructured its program of "core administration" for Tribes and urban centers into a development agency funding projects that implement Tribally developed social and economic development strategies (SEDS). In 1970, David became the founding president of the United Indian Development Association in Los Angeles, the predecessor organization to the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, the leading Indian business ownership program in North America, assisting thousands of Indian business owners in obtaining financing and contracts with large...