This report summarizes the many challenges to economic and business development in Native American communities that were expressed by the GEIC workshop attendees. The challenges fall into eight broad categories of issues that workshop participants indicated, to varying degrees, impede development on tribal lands. This report also sets forth key recommendations, best practices, and promising efforts shared by the GEIC workshop participants and further informed by several notable studies and reports issued over the last several years that pertain to the specified challenges and barriers. The recommendations listed in this report are organized by stakeholder group, and are further categorized topically to address the identified challenges