Native American Rights | Indian Gaming Revenues Provide Many Needed Services

It is 8:30 on a Monday morning at a casino that never closes. Snow is burying the dozen cars parked outside the Turning Stone Casino on the Oneida Indian reservation. Inside, the give-and-take of chips and cards blurs the green-felt surfaces of a half-dozen blackjack tables. A roulette wheel revolves in slow motion for a lone hopeful. A man with a cigar and a woman with a cigarette sit at smoky screens of video gambling games, including one called Indian Gold. A man is snoring in a corner of the casino coffee shop. Whatever he is sleeping off, it is not a night of drinking. The Oneida...

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