Zachary Broken Leg (left) and Michael Dumont (right), 2011 LNI Business Plan Competition winners, with Crazy Horse High School Principal, Daniel Siebel (middle). Michael and Zachary presented a plan for a recording studio on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Youth Financial Mastery and Entrepreneurship

Lakota Funds uses the Building Native Communities curriculum in the youth-oriented financial mastery classes and the Indianpreneurship curriculum in the youth entrepreneurship training program. The youth financial literacy and entrepreneurship classes have been taught at the G.E.A.R. U.P. (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) summer camp.