> Indians have become a phony as a $3 bill. They don’t seem to like to work. But they have gambling in their blood...and unfortunately, we promote it.
Some Indians (eg the Pit River tribe) in the Northern California were cheated out of their tribal lands via the courts as recently as the mid 1970s.
Some Indian tribes (eg the Ohlone) have not been formal recognized as federal entities. This allegedly prevents the tribes and any tribe members from having legal standing which is needed to restore historic (not prehistoric) wrongs inflicted since California territorial incorporation and statehood.
I do not know particulars involving the Indian casinos, but I suspect that they might not have been given much choice in whether or not to accept such deals given the politics of the times.
Without tribal lands, the Indians in practice are faced with a choice of being trespassers on their own historic lands, entering the gambling industry, or losing their collective cultural identity altogether.
Or finding a job like every other American. Do you still practice the European/African/Asian culture of your ancestors, wear their clothing, eat their foods etc.
America is about assimilation not separation.