Indian Gaming & Casinos

Covers the history of the court case and the impact the decision had on the tribal gaming business. The author's concise and insightful study makes clear the significance of this landmark case as it attests to the sovereignty of both Native Americans and the law.

As debates over tribal gaming heat up across the U.S., the book examines developing political and policy issues that may determine the future of Indian gaming.

The casebook provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible platform designed specifically for Indian gaming law and similar courses. Written by leading scholars in the field of tribal gaming, this casebook uniquely is informed by the reality that Indian gaming law and policy has evolved through political compromise as much as through litigation and law reform.

As political pressure on tribes to concede to state interests grows, this authoritative book offers a practical approach to policy reform with specific recommendations for tribal, federal, state, and local policymakers.

Tracing the genesis of tribal gaming and the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), this work describes IGRA's key provisions, major legal and political developments, and the multitude of actors.

Print and ebook covering Indian Gaming: The Law, the Interests, and the Scope of Conflict, New Mexico: Gaming and Hardball Politics, ''We'll Remember in November", A Clash of Sovereigns, A Clash of History.

This print and ebook explores the process of tribal self-definition that the communities in the author's study make available to off-reservation audiences. Focusing on architectural and interior designs as well as performance styles, she reveals how a complex and often surprising cultural dynamic is created when Native Americans create lavish displays for the public’s participation and consumption.

Print and ebook about a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bingo in 1976 simply to pay a few bills.

A dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created tangible benefits for Florida Seminoles tribal citizens, including employment, universal health insurance, and social services.

The case studies presented offer a historically and politically nuanced analysis of gaming that collectively creates an interdisciplinary reading of gaming informed by both the social sciences and the humanities. The book works to illuminate the not-so-new Indian being formed in the public's consciousness by and through gaming.