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Everybody’s Business: Looking to give Indigenous entrepreneurs a big lift

FILLING A NEED: ­Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling says he started Rhode Island-based nonprofit Turtle Island Community Capital to help foster economic sovereignty in Native communities. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM
FILLING A NEED: ­Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling says he started Rhode Island-based nonprofit Turtle Island Community Capital to help foster economic sovereignty in Native communities. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

When Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling returned to his home state of Rhode Island in 2022, he asked local members of his tribe, the Ramapo Lenape, what obstacles stood in their way in business and community. “Part of the problem was that there was no funding for the projects they wanted to get done and programs

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