Indian Gaming: Why is the Backlash Growing?
Miscellaneous
Under the aegis of the National Indian Gaming Association,
more than 200 Tribes in 30 states signed a full-age ad in
Roll Call, the leading publication of Capitol Hill. The ad
appeared for the first time on Thursday, January 23, 2003.
The ad was developed partly in response to the Time Magazine
article that tribal leaders denounced as baseless and biased.
The ad highlights the themes of Indian self-reliance and community
revitalization. View ad here (Adobe PDF).
Fenelon, James V. Fenelon, California State University, San
Bernardino, recently published a paper on issues of gaming
and sovereignty, "Dual Sovereignty of Native Nations,
the United States, & Traditionalists" (2002). Humboldt
Journal of Social Relations, Volume 27, Number 1 (pages 106-145).
Abstract: Sovereignty has at least three legal dualisms,
and at least one societal dialectic, within U.S. Indian Country.
These are all points of contention, conflict and social change
in Indian Gaming contexts and for many “traditional”
peoples associated with “reservation” or “tribal”
cultures, and are especially evident in some Lakota and Dakota
modern societies, and for many others. This paper discusses
the origins of sovereignty in different discourses, the “Traditionalist”
perspectives framed as “Cultural Sovereignty”
sometimes at odds with political definitions, conflicts arising
from Indian Gaming cases, and provides a model analyzing “Dual
Sovereignty” within the contexts of federal, state,
“tribal” and “traditional” legal and
cultural worldviews. Findings include the observed internecine
tensions in some reservation “cultures” are often
secondary to struggles over legal and political sovereignty
with individual states and the U.S. attempted dominance and
historical subordination of Native Nations, conflicts which
are then strengthening Indian “tribal sovereignty”
through increased financial and political resources arising
from successful enterprises, such as with Indian Gaming.
The California-based Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations
publishes a pamphlet to educate the public about Tribal Sovereignty
and gaming issues.
Links to Indian Gaming related websites:
California Nations Indian Gaming Association: http://www.cniga.com
Great Plains Indian Gaming Association: http://www.gpiga.org/home.htm
Minnesota Indian Gaming Association: http://www.mnindiangaming.com
National Indian Gaming Association: http://www.indiangaming.org
National Indian Gaming Commission: http://www.nigc.gov
Victor Rocha’s Pechanga.net (Internet new source for
Native American issues and Gaming News: http://www.pechanga.net
Washington Indian Gaming Association: http://washingtonindiangaming.org
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