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.
Blah blah blah… sacred sites… blah blah blah
> 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.
“But they have gambling in their blood...and unfortunately, we promote it.”
Who’s this “we”? I certainly don’t promote gambling. Most of the people I associate with don’t either.
So if the natives put up a casino “we” promoted it? Then shouldn’t “we” share in the proceeds?
Some people say ‘indians’ are lazy, greedy, resentful racists who blame the white man for their self-inflicted problems for the past 500 years. I disagree and think they’re just misunderstood.
California throws 2820 acres back into stone age.