Can you place a price on a labor of love?

Yes I can. What started out as a concept by myself and couple of friends has actually made a difference for an American Indian Compny. We can connect the dots on an actual tangible instance that resulted in dollars exchanging hands using a multiplier effect. 

The Smithsonian Institution has selected Sault Printing to be its printer of choice this fall for a variety of printing projects for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). “We were actually contacted by the Smithsonian for a quote and we had been recommended to them by Ryan, who is a well-known designer from the Osage Nation in Oklahoma,” explained Ron Maleport. “We’ve had a great working relationship with Ryan and even recently worked with him printing a program for a golf outing that Tiger Woods played in.” That outing, the Notah Begay III Foundation event, was held in Verona, New York as a fundraiser for the health and well-being of  Native American youth.

Ryan in turned sent us an email stating "I located that business off of Americanindiansearch.com True story. Real talk."

We at AIS are tickled red to actually see the fruition of our labors. To connect american indian businesses with people that need their services and products.

We are currently thinking about AIS 2.0 and wondering how we are going to leverage new technologies to assist us and we are looking for more stories like this one. It takes me back to tellings of historic trade routes that we used to purchase products from one another as tribal entities and let's me know we are still doing it today.

Buy Indian it's tradition.

Joseph Brown Thunder

Co-founder, American Indian Search

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