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The Growth of the Native American Gaming Industry: What Has the Past Provided, and What Does the Future Hold?

The Growth of the Native American Gaming Industry: What Has the Past Provided, and What Does the... The Growth of the Native American Gaming Industry What Has the Past Provided, and What Does the Future Hold? james i. schaap What can we say about the phenomenal growth of the Native Ameri- can gaming industry? In order to evaluate the industry’s development we fi rst need to consider its economic, social, and political history. Then, building on this foundation, it will be possible to predict, strictly from an observational perspective, what the future may hold for Native Americans. Since 1832 the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the right of Native American tribes to self-rule, allowing them to control everything from fi shing, hunting, and mineral rights to the establishment of gaming ca- sinos. In the 1960s no states ran lotteries, and only one, Nevada, allowed casinos. The Indian tribes had yet to discover the potential of gaming, from bingo to glitzy casinos. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, a number of Indian tribes established bingo operations in order to raise revenues to fund tribal governments. In 1987, in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld one of the most signifi cant turning points for tribal governments: the legal right of Na- tive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

The Growth of the Native American Gaming Industry: What Has the Past Provided, and What Does the Future Hold?

The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 34 (3) – Jul 29, 2010

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University of Nebraska Press
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Copyright © 2010 The University of Nebraska Press.
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1534-1828

Abstract

The Growth of the Native American Gaming Industry What Has the Past Provided, and What Does the Future Hold? james i. schaap What can we say about the phenomenal growth of the Native Ameri- can gaming industry? In order to evaluate the industry’s development we fi rst need to consider its economic, social, and political history. Then, building on this foundation, it will be possible to predict, strictly from an observational perspective, what the future may hold for Native Americans. Since 1832 the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the right of Native American tribes to self-rule, allowing them to control everything from fi shing, hunting, and mineral rights to the establishment of gaming ca- sinos. In the 1960s no states ran lotteries, and only one, Nevada, allowed casinos. The Indian tribes had yet to discover the potential of gaming, from bingo to glitzy casinos. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, a number of Indian tribes established bingo operations in order to raise revenues to fund tribal governments. In 1987, in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld one of the most signifi cant turning points for tribal governments: the legal right of Na- tive

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The American Indian QuarterlyUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Jul 29, 2010

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