Tuesday, March 9, 1999 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 3 Students earn cash praise from a joint business endeavor By Dan Curry dcurry@kansan.com Kansan staff writer It seems like any good idea this KU student touches turns to gold these days — and the Kansas Association for Native American Education plans to recognize that fact today in Topeka. Dominic Ortiz, Lawrence junior and member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, will receive the Kansas Native American Student of the Year award the same day he launches his new jewelry business on his Web site, www.hotcollege Jewelry.com. Ortiz will accept the award at noon today at the Holiday Inn West Holidome in Topeka, 605 S.W. Fairlawn Road. Ortiz said the association would be honoring him for his ability to be a full-time student in the KU school of business while operating a full-time jewelry business. "I was very pleased to be recognized for having accomplished these things," Ortiz said. Ortiz and the jewelry he sells are not strangers to praise. Ortiz said he was selected last year to meet with President Clinton before Clinton signed an Executive Order giving funds to Native American education. During his meeting with the president, Ortiz said he gave Clinton a storyteller bracelet, for which he expressed his admiration. In two weeks, Ortiz will travel to Billings, Mont., to deliver the keynote address for the Annual American Indian Business Leaders Conference. Ortiz and his partner Colby Elkins, Haskell Indian Nations University junior, have been selling a variety of hand-crafted Jew elry in Lawrence for the last two years. They said they were excited about their new online retail jewellery store, which will include KU and K-State designs. Ortiz said that instead of purchasing merchandise from other stores, customers will now be able to buy merchandise directly from them on the Web site. They plan to add jewelry lines for the entire Big 12 Conference, said Elkins, who is a member of the Laguna and Caddo Nations. "Each month we'll have new jewelry and new memorabilia added to our Web site." Ortz said. "We're no longer just a wholesaler." Prices will range from $5.99 for a key chain to $230 for a gold-overlaid bracelet. So far, the partners have not gotten rich from their jewelry business, but Elkins said that it was generating enough revenue to pay the bills. The joint business venture began when Ortiz was a student at Haskell. Ortiz met Elkins, who wanted to sell the jewelry that he and his family made at Elkins' home in Grants, N.M. Ortiz said he helped Elkins market his jewelry at Haskell before they realized that they could sell Elkins' jewelry to a larger market, including downtown retailers. "We sold it in several local stores — ETC, Prairie Patches," Elkins said. "And then we were supplying Indian-owned casinos with a whole line of jewelry." 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