S & S Video Rental Works With Lakota Funds.
Seth Bracken is a first time borrower from Lakota Funds loan products to expand his video rental business, S & S Video Rental. Seth’s family owned enterprise renting DVD movies and games is located north of Porcupine on the west side of the highway, along with satellite rental sites in Manderson at Pinky’s and Reddy Mart east of Pine Ridge. With hopes to add further satellite sites in various other communities, Seth strives to provide quality customer service with a large selection of movies and games to meet customers’ needs, all at the price that is the lowest on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakota Funds loans are just one of the services Lakota Funds has to offer, assisting entrepreneurs like Seth with renovations and adding to inventory. S & S Video is providing the reservation with the convenience of video rental right here locally.
There are free classes offered: Core Four Business Planning, Financial Literacy, and Homebuyers Training just to name a few. Wawokiye Business Institute also has small business success coaches who assist future business owners like Seth with resources and technical assistance.

Badland Boy Adventures
Lakota
Funds assisted Chris Cuny to get his new business,
Badland Boy Adventures, started with one of the loan
products. Chris used the Core Four Business Planning
Course to start his plan. Chris began his road to entrepreneurship
with Harvey White Woman as his small business success
coach four years ago, now he has David White Bull to
assist in getting his entertainment business up and
running. Badland Boy Adventure is possibly the first
portable rock climbing wall entertainment in Indian
Country. It will be set up at pow-wows, local schools,
local trade shows, and various tribal programs, with
the first appearance at the trade show in Rapid City
the 3rd week in March. Chris stated, “If you
got your dream, okay it’s possible to find resources
here, give it a shot.” read more...