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American-Indians and Gambling
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American-Indians and Gambling
The historical, cultural, legal and economic issues of efforts by the New York and Southern CA tribes to institute gaming.
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"In the 1980s the possibility of legal gambling on Indian reservations emerged as a potential means for many Native American peoples to revitalize their societies and pull themselves out of the dependency and poverty that reservation life had brought them. There were many variations in the process of instituting gambling on the reservations--but the primary differences were in the reactions and the efforts of the many tribes. Two examples of Native American groups who sought to institute gaming on a sufficient scale to revitalize their economies were the Mohawk of northern New York and the numerous tribes of southern California. In New York a terrible "Mohawk civil war," as the popular phrase put it, tore apart the Akwesasne, Kahnawake, and Kanesatake reservations (Johansen xxi). But in California the battle over gambling pitted the..."More papers on American-Indians and Gambling:
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American-Indians and Gambling (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-American-Indians-and-Gambling/15682
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"American-Indians and Gambling" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-American-Indians-and-Gambling/15682>
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