. >> ben emplois three young people and plans to take on more as soon assee can. >> it's great -- as he can. >> it's great to have something different. who doesn't love coffee. >> a future head of marketing there. >> for generations the chinakok lived on their lands, on some of the most expensive real state. it's rare to find a native entrepreneur like ben. >> according to figures from the senn us bureau the trend is up. there's 237,000 native owned businesses employing over 184,000 people in tribal communities nationwide. altogether these enterprises generate $34.5 billion in receipts, mostly through native owned construction and manufacturing - an increase of 28% over 2002. >> so what is this area? >> this is the wigan village. >> elizabeth thunderbird, a teacher, an elder shows me around the recently opened outdoor museum. >> our people today recreated a small village so everyone can see what it looked like in 1640 - not like my house down the road. >> you have airconditioning. >> i have airconditioning. >> she's confident the trend towards native american entrepreneurship will co

. >> ben employs three young people all from the tribe. >> i think it's great to have something different other than smoke shops along the highway, and who doesn't love could have fee? >> a future head of marketing right there. >> for jen races, they have lived on the reservation behind me, surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in the country. many of them have taken jobs working in that community, but it is rare to find a native entrepreneur like ben. >> according to figures from the u.s. census bureau in 2007, the trend is up. there are almost 237,000 native american owned businesses in the u.s. employing just over 184,000 people in tribal communities nationwide. altogether, these enterprises generate an estimated $34.5 billion in receipts, mostly through native owned construction and manufacturing enterprises. that's an increase of 28% over 2002. >> what is this area? >> this is the village. >> elizabeth, a teacher and and he woulder shows me around the recently opened outdoor museum. >> our people today have recreated a small village so that everyone can see what it loo

. >> ben employs three young people, all from the chinakok nation and plans to take on more as soon as he can. >> i think it's great to have something different, other than smoke shops on the highway. who doesn't love coffee. >> a future head of marketing there. >> for generations the china cock lived on the reservation behind me surrounded by some of the most expensive real state in the country. many have taken jobs this that community. it is rare to find a native entrepreneur like ben. >> according to figures from the u.s. central bureau, there are 27,000 businesses employing 184,000 people in tribal communities nationwide. altogether these enterprises generate 34.5 billion in receipts through native owned construction and manufacturing enterses. it's an increase of 28% over 2002. >> what is this area here? >> this is the wigan village. >> elizabeth thunder bird - a teacher, an elder shows me around the chinakok's outdoor museum. >> our people recreated a small village so everyone could see what it looked like in 1640, not like the house down the road. >> you have air conditioning. >

ben cardin said on the floor earlier this year, "while some people may think this is a bill about beer, it is really about jobs." and i would say jobs, manufacturing. small and independent brewers today employ more than 100,000 americans and pay more than $3 billion in wages and benefi benefits. sam calgione, the owner of dog fish head bury in my home state of delaware, now employs 180 workers at their facility in milton. of course, what they're manufacturing is not a new or innovative or recently invented product. people have been brewing beer for thousands of years. but sam's done a remarkable job of coming up with a very broad range of different brews and, in fact, of bringing back brew as that are centuries or millennia old by recovering ancient recipes for fan fast i can and tasty -- fantastic and tasty beers. what i'm focusing on, though, today, is about the expansion. this particular company has invested $50 million in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. and when i recently visited, i was struck at how different it is from the beer bottling plant of the past, from what some may have seen on "laverne and shirley" or what they might have imagined a traditional manufacturing plan

ben. >> according to figures from the u.s. census bureau, the trend is up. there are 237,000 native owned businesses in the u.s. employing84,000 people in tribal communities nationwide. altogether, these enter prizes generate $34.5 billion in receipts, mostly through native owned construction and manufacturing enter prizes. that's an increase of 28% over 2002. >> what is this area? >> elizabeth thunder bird, a teacher, an elder, shows me around the recently opened outdoor museum. >> our people have recreated a small village so that everyone can see what it looked like in 1640. not like my house down the road. we have -- >> you have air conditioning. >> we have air conditioning. [ laughter ] >> she's confident the trends towards native american entrepreneur ship will continue. >> we don't imagine that somebody's going to hand us a lot of money. we have no idea of that. i don't think that the people want to live that way. i think we do want to find a place in the outside world where we can make that kind of money, but bring it home and develop what we have here. >> she says native americans may have a hard time qualifying