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Wampum: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire

Wampum: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire


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The never-before-told story of Indian Casinos in America In 2015, 239 Indian tribes operated 478 casinos, high-stakes bingo halls, and other gambling facilities on Indian reservations in 28 states that collectively earned $28.5 billion in gross gaming revenue. How did Indian gambling become such a lucrative and commonplace fixture of the American landscape? In Wampum, Donald Craig Mitchell tells the never-before-told story. In 1979, the Mafia opened the nation's first high-stakes Indian bingo hall on the Seminole reservation in Florida. Nine years later, Indian tribes were operating bingo halls on reservations in 23 states. Congress enacted the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to subject gambling on reservations to regulation by the federal government and the states in which the reservations were located. But, while members of Congress who voted for the bill didn't intend for it to do so, the act facilitated the transformation of Indian bingo halls into what they are today--Las Vegas-style casinos whose gaming floors contain more than 352,000 video slot and other gaming machines. On Capitol Hill, Donald Craig Mitchell is a recognized expert on Indian law and history, and the only researcher who had early access to the records of the committees whose members and staff wrote the bills that became the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. In Wampum, he offers readers the first comprehensive look at the forces in Congress and inside the Bureau of Indian Affairs that have created the Indian gaming industry.

About the Author :
Donald Mitchell isthe author ofSold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land and Take My Land Take My Life: The Story of Congress s Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, and is a recognized expert on federal Indian law on Capitol Hill."

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This is a disturbing expose on the juggernaut that Indian gaming has become in the U.S.A., authored by someone who identifies himself as a recognized expert on federal Indian law. It is also a revealing tutorial on the serpentine workings of government with committees, sub-committees, bureaus, select committees, bills, initiatives, amendments; the finagling, obfuscating, muddying, rewriting, resubmitting, wheeling, dealing, and one-upping." That casino on the nearby reservation? Think of it as revenge for Christopher Columbus, as some wags have put it but also a sophisticated operation that makes use of every legal loophole available. Indian casino gambling began, to give it a charitable spin, as a means of encouraging economic development on reservations Indian casinos are likely to be around for a long time to come, and Mitchell's expose goes a long way toward explaining the whys and hows." Wampum is a fascinating look at the origins of Indian gaming in the U.S.A. --Senator Harry Reid


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  • ISBN-13: 9781468313352
  • Publisher: Overlook Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire
  • ISBN-10: 1468313355
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 392


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