Posted on 08/08/2017 7:50:32 AM PDT by LouAvul
I'm in Oklahoma and we have casinos everywhere. It seems.
But a tribe has surreptitiously acquired a small piece of property in my particular town and built facilities for a restaurant. Now it's been revealed they intend to start a casino, and our councilmen say there's nothing they can do.
Even though gambling is illegal in my town, these people are protected by the federal government to open up one of their filthy, prefabricated, typically "native American" dumps? They say they are, and they say as long as they comply with the feds, they can do whatever they want.
I'm going to contact my Congresscritters. Is there any precedent for shutting down a gambling establishment?
I never shot and Indian and am tired of giving these people special consideration for what my ancestors might, or might not have, done.
There are quite a few that also have Melungeon in their background...
Abraham Lincoln and Elvis Presley are thought to have had Melungeon blood....
Last month my wife and I met some friends at the Pechenga Casino in Temecula, CA. Didn’t gamble, just ate an overpriced lunch and wandered around. The big-spending customers looked to be Chinese. Our small-town casino (not Indian) lacks these customers and is really just a pale shadow of a place like Pechenga.
One thing that was different from other casinos was that there were “no dice or balls”. Roulette wheels had cards indicating the numbers and craps was also played using cards rather than dice. We were told that was a rule for Indian casinos. Anyone with more experience know if that’ true?
Scots Irish here too! That’s who populated and pioneered those states in the early days.
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