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We are discussing RESERVATION SHOPPING. Indian tribes three years ago came into Illinois and sued fifteen landowners for their property, claiming they had once "hunted" here which made this their land. They were suing for 260,000 acress m/l. This included the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. When we visited other casino sights around the country we found that they had been duped. That the monies from the Casino did NOT go back into the communities and that business' around the casinos closed down at the rate of 40% or higher, the locals were stuck with huge tax losses and had the high responsibility and cost of keeping up the roads into the casinos and providing vastly increased police protection by the now vastly higher crime rates suddenly in the area. Ho Chunk indians came into our state just this year and tried the same thing. I am not sure how that is panning out. Hopefully the state has taken a cue from how strongly that downstate Illinois citizens came out against them. Once they have their property they declare it "sovereign reservation" and no local, state or federal laws can touch it. They don't have to charge taxes so all local business goes there.
In answer to your question as my husband is standing over me and wants his computer back, :-) It has to be approved through the gov. for current outside reservation properties. As the article states it is usually "slid in" under the noses of the locals and suddenly they find they have a HUGE problem. It trashes the local communities.
Locally the Indian tribe that tried to come in stated freely "We do NOT want a casino".. Later they admitted they did, and that was the reason for the whole lawsuit. This is sneaky, and its wrong. They are pushing more and more from state to state. Some Indian tribes are pushing in and taking land for casinos where they never lived or hunted. Sometimes forcefully. We are working to stop this. gtg.