The Oregon Native American Chamber of Commerce held its 1st Annual Gathering event at Montgomery Park. The event helped raise funds to support Scholarship Program for Native American students. Since 2002, fourteen students have been awarded $1,000 deposited directly into their school accounts for use on their tuition/books. The event also helped create awareness for the Chambers involvement with the Native American Communities.

President Janie Fricke of the Oregon Native American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Okalahoma comments, “The tribes are trusting doing business with other Native American business owners. As little as five years ago they would always outsource to the ‘big companies’ and never consider smaller Native American owned business. But we are turning the corner on this and developing more trust and business between nations.” For more information, you can visit their website at  www.onacc.org.

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