XVSH Business Solutions

Team Leader

Cara Owings

Solution Overview

Solution Name:

One-line solution summary:

Online Indigenous Trade Market App

Pitch your solution.

It is an online market app, much like Amazon, Ebay or craigslist. However, trades are done without cash. It would be a global exhange that can revitalize Indigenous forms of trade and capitol.

What specific problem are you solving?

-poverty

-economic impacts to Indigenous communities done by capitalism colonialism

-Bring awareness to traditional economies

-connect rural tribal people to one another across the globe.

What is your solution?

-an app based market place where buyers and sellers can communicate discuss price and value. Options to trade items or buy. Bead and shell supply, leather supply, basket weaving supplies, traditional foods are perfect examples of items people may want to trade.

Strong preference will be given to Native-led solutions that directly benefit and are located within the Indigenous communities. Which community(s) does your solution benefit?

youth, adults, elders, entrepreneurs, artists, educators

Which dimension of the Fellowship does your solution most closely address?

Increase access to jobs, financial capital, and skill development opportunities

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.

will be an Indigenous produced app, with a focus on Indigenous entrepreneurs. Connect people dislocated from their traditional lands to aboriginal resources no matter where they live.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Eureka, CA, USA

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

Because we would need an app developer.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Cara Owings, Executive Director, XVSH Business

Please indicate the tribal affiliation of your primary delegate.

Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation

Is your primary delegate a member of the community in which your project is based?

Solution Team:

Cara Owings