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To: Monkey Face

Utah wouldn’t do Indian casinos. Those are on Indian land which is governed by the tribe, not the state or the USA.


4,724 posted on 04/14/2021 7:23:29 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: ArGee

Utah has several reservations, actually, one not 20 miles from here. It straddles the Nevada State line, so there may be a casino on it, but not handy. It’s just that most Utahns are LDS and they don’t gamble.

There’s also one in the northeastern corner, up by Flaming Gorge. It would also straddle the CO or CO/WY state lines, so there may be a casino there. I haven’t been to either reservation in a lot of years, but if they wanted to pull the tribes up from poverty, a casino is a good way to do it.

The Shivwits reservation is extremely poor, but in beautiful country. It’s the one that straddles the NV line. It’s on Old Highway 91. The Virgin River Gorge (Slot Canyon for I-15) by-passes it, now.

Like I said, they could both have casinos, now, but I wouldn’t know. Even though I lived in NV for 35 years I never understood the urge to send good money after bad. Especially since my first husband was a gambler who lost a lot. (I fact I didn’t know until well after we were divorced.)


4,726 posted on 04/14/2021 8:00:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (The People fearing the Government is Tyranny. The Government fearing the People is Freedom. FB)
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To: ArGee; Tax-chick

Um...yes...being close to Navajo reservations, and having gone to school with Navajo children who were fostered out, I learned a lot about them. We had to learn about them in school. That was Utah “back then.” Not the nicest way to integrate them, but it was what was “done.”


4,727 posted on 04/14/2021 8:04:19 AM PDT by Monkey Face (The People fearing the Government is Tyranny. The Government fearing the People is Freedom. FB)
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