Look at the good side. Many of the Casino tribes are now building their own roads , hospitals, schools and etc. If not for the Casino that you white people hate, yet donate freely too, you would be picking up the tab for ALL the above. I never understand how people like you are still bitching about the Indians paying taxes while your own government is screwing you and making you buy the Vaseline. Time to move on to the important things in life. They came onto our reservation and built logging roads, then charge logging companies to come in a log it off. Then they tapped into our rivers and is sending that water down to the WHITE PEOPLE in the south of the state. They let gold miners come in and sluice our land off into the rivers and killed the salmon. And how many years of free tax exemptions would that be worth? Forever as far as I'm concerned.
“Look at the good side. Many of the Casino tribes are now building their own roads , hospitals, schools and etc. If not for the Casino that you white people hate, yet donate freely too, you would be picking up the tab for ALL the above. I never understand how people like you are still bitching about the Indians paying taxes while your own government is screwing you and making you buy the Vaseline. Time to move on to the important things in life. They came onto our reservation and built logging roads, then charge logging companies to come in a log it off. Then they tapped into our rivers and is sending that water down to the WHITE PEOPLE in the south of the state. They let gold miners come in and sluice our land off into the rivers and killed the salmon. And how many years of free tax exemptions would that be worth? Forever as far as I'm concerned.”
It is a good thing that Casinos make tribes more independent. I hope that the tribes learn to be better managers of the casinos. Most of what I hear about them are tales of nepotism, corruption, and backroom distribution of wealth to those who are on the "inside". Of course, the "WHITE PEOPLE" are no more monolithic than the "BROWN PEOPLE" are. The pre-columbian settlers were fortunate enough that after Columbus, it was a Christian civilization that let most of them live and own a chunk of land. In pre-Columbian times the land changed hands many times, and the people that lived on it were simply slaughtered, enslaved, or driven off. Such was the way of life and war before civilization. No land on earth (with the exception of Antarctica), has not been stolen (many, many, times) from another people who owned it before them.
Most of the pre-columbian people died of disease that came from Europe and Asia; most of the remainder were conquered in large part because they were constantly at war with one another.
I have no problem with tribes having casinos. I think treaties should be honored, just as I think the Constitution should be honored. But that doesn't mean that we should look at the past through rose colored glasses.