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Article: Native woman-owned business in Tulsa wins tribal award
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- January 6, 2009
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In 2005 Kelee Fourkiller-Wright and her husband, Kirk Wright,
were considering starting a small business.
"My husband and I had talked a lot about starting our own
company," Fourkiller-Wright said. "One night after he went to sleep
I filled out all the incorporation papers."
The incorporation papers called for her to own 51 percent of the
company and for Kirk Wright to own 49 percent.
"The next morning I told him that if he wanted to own 51 percent
of the company he should have stayed awake longer," said Fourkiller-
Wright, a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Their company, EquaCor Plastics and Packaging, is a Tulsa-based
distributor of packaging, food service and janitorial supplies. In
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