Non-profit corporations provide a number of appealing tax and funding options and represent one possible business structure. Tribes and individual entrepreneurs both will want to review the information in this Topic in Depth when considering what form their business should take.
Federally recognized tribes stand in a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government and exercise their sovereignty through such things as establishing tribal membership criteria and adopting and enforcing laws. This Topic in Depth describes the process mandated by BIA regulations to obtain recognition.
