Can somebody explain why it is legal to have casino gambling on Indian reservations, but its illegal in many states for you or I to open a gambling business?????
Isn’t it discrimination to allow American Indians to do this, while whites, blacks, Asian, any other group you can think of, are banned from such businesses???
Indian reservations are sovereign nations.
Reservations are a country inside a country.
“Can somebody explain why it is legal to have casino gambling on Indian reservations, but its illegal in many states for you or I to open a gambling business?????”
It is the Indian Nation and the same laws do not apply and I approve.
http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/indians_101.pdf Click the link for explanation
Like I said to a friend when we walked into the Indian casino before a concert and saw all the ashtrays: it’s like a whole other country. Depending on the state there’s some laws around it, but reses don’t have all the same laws as their state. If whites, blacks and Asians want to live on crappy reservations with no job opportunities other than casinos they too could have casinos.
Residual tribal sovereignty, pretty much all that’s left of the otherwise abrogated treaties between these United States and the American Indians. They get to make their own laws on the little reservations they were herded into (though incoherently can only run gambling operations if their reservation is in state which allows any form of gambling — state lottery? Your Indians get to run casinos).