Indian casino

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Foxwood Casino of the Mashantucket-Pequot Tribe

Indian casinos are casinos operated by the Native Americans of the United States - called Indians - independent of the control of the US government.

history

In 1979 the Seminoles began gambling in Florida for the first time . As a result, many more Indian tribes recognized the income opportunities of gambling. In the following years, a debate arose over whether the Indian reservations are subject to legal restrictions on gambling. This debate ended in 1988 with the adoption of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( American Indian gambling regulation law ) by the US Congress that allowed the government-recognized "Indian Nations" to operate on its territory tribal casinos.

numbers

In 2006, 161 of the 408 Indian tribes' casinos were only equipped with smaller machines such as slot machines, bingo or video poker. At that time, 223 Indian tribes (out of a total of 562 registered tribes) in 28 US states were involved in the casino business. The proportion of non-gambling activities in Indian casinos is growing faster than in non-Indian casinos, reaching $ 3.1 billion in 2008.

In 2007, 230 tribes operated a total of 425 facilities in 28 states, earning $ 26.5 billion, up 5% over the previous year when they had sales of $ 25.3 billion. All of the other casinos combined turned over around $ 32 billion that year. In 2011, the gross sales of the 421 Indian casinos in the United States were $ 27.2 billion.

The Foxwoods Resort Casino , one of the largest and most modern casinos with a huge sophisticated hotel complex , is operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Indians in Connecticut . With a small part of the income, they finance Indian cultural projects and run a museum that presents tribal history.

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  1. ↑ a b Magazine for American Studies, Issue 3, 2006, p. 39
  2. ↑ Kathy Helms, Economist: Indian gaming slowdown is 'artificial' , in: Gallup Independent, August 20, 2008 ( Memento of October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ National Indian Gaming Commission: Tribal Gaming Revenues archive link ( Memento of October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 56 kB)

literature

  • Steven Andrew Light, Kathryn RL Rand: Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. University Press of Kansas, 2005, ISBN 0-7006-1406-0
  • Steven Andrew Light, Kathryn RL Rand: Indian Gaming Law and Policy. Carolina Academic Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59460-046-5
  • Brett Duval Fromson: Hitting the Jackpot - The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History , Atlantic Monthly Press, September, 2003, ISBN 0-87113-904-9