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S hadesof a native culture are meeting the cont.em- porary concept of arofits and dev,lopment at he new Eagle's Nest Busi- ess Complex. A $1.8 million building, ullt in the style of the tradi- onal longhouae, is the ftrst f three that wlll fortn a tri- ngle on the reserve land in antford. The courtyard, formed in- e the building triangle, is fstorically an Iroquoian athering place, says Chief illiam Montour. "In the mmertime the breezes ave a, cooling effect and uring the Wint.er the struc- protected them from the Id prevailing winds," he id. ' The property was original- band land before it was ven to.the New England _ _ Indian Affairs department 1 main tenant in Eagle's Nest Co; in the 193»'-. The land was returned to the band and has been flrmland until the _recent development About 75 per cent of the fi- nancing tor the ftrst building came &om the Peace Hills Trust Co., an Alberta native- · owned trust company. The remainder was raised by the Six Nations council with an additional $1~000 grant coming &om the department orindian Affairs. The major tenant is Inell .. Affairs. Employees fro~ In Ontario will move buqdlng in :Mayto t', strcrctm o e secon building should begin in September depending on how many leasing commit- ments the council gets from local businesses. · "We want all offices; we don't wantanyretail. We - think shopping would de- tract from the business at- mosphere," said Chief Mon- tour. At the building's official opening in March, the Indi- an Affairs regional director general, Gerry ~err, said: t1ona na ve values: "Traditionally we produced things only for survival and everything was shared. When people went hunting . and they brought back deer rather than preserving it, ' they would share it with the · community. That's been with us a long time; it's a matter of teaching- you have to . share things, You don't hoard everything." He said when the Europe- ans came they created divi- "The benefits are obvious. sions in native society. The community has ac- There were those who ad- quired an important capital herred to-traditional beliefs facility which will continue as opposed to the European to reap economic benents religions. The Indian Act Im- far into the future, and a posed a difference between deep sense of pride which non-status Indians a,nd sta- goes with the successful tus Indians. There was also a completion of this complex." division between the Metts, The Six Hations Commu- whose ancestory ls part Eu- ity De I ..,,."' t C ropean, and the natives. n ve o_..en orpora- tion, funded by Industry, Sci- . "Because of all these divi- ence and TechnolOI)' Cana- s1ons, jealousies crept in; da and operated by band and a bit of that jealousy council, was given $2.5 mil- shows itself in business. Be~ lion for thepext three years. : cause somebody~ taken Lewis Staats, general manager, said the corpora- tion will make direct loans to new and existing busi- nesses for busineaes on and off-reserve. The Six Nations-New Credit Community Futures Committee, funded by dana- da Employment and lmmi- · · gration ofrered a native en- trepreneurial training pro- gram for ab,.,ut 30 students last fall. The committee ls al- so starting a program that will provide money for peo- . pie on uneniployment Insur- · ance who: want to ltart a business. llr. Cooke said e~oaomlc developmeent-on the re- serve has been a slow pro- that initiative and become self-sufficient there may be bitterness in the communi- ty," said Mr. Cooke. He said attitudes are slowly changing and o_, nized gatherinp for yo-, people on reserves help na- tives to nnd a py medium between the principles of capltallsm and the tradition- al need to share. "To me, before w•aet into business here, we have to do a lot or community healing."