Lone Butte Trade Center

Specialties

Our founders were born and raised on the reservation. They envisioned ON-​AUK-​MOR/​Lone Butte Trade Center in response to the very high levels of unemployment on the reservation. They believe that a profitable business on the reservation employing reservation community members fosters pride in the reservation and in individuals. This pride spreads to who we are and what we can do. Our growth, the advancement of our employees over the years, and our customers support that belief.

The founders realized that the new enterprise could help address many of the problems they became aware of as they grew up on the reservation. «In order to be sovereign, we had to be financially self-​sufficient and learn the system. ON-​AUK-​MOR/​Lone Butte Trade Center is one way to do that.» In addition, this new business would open up communication between the non-​Indian communities and the reservation. «Many people in the surrounding areas didn’t know, and some still don’t know, that we are located on a reservation.»