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In 2012, 240 Indian tribes operated 435 casinos, high stakes bingo halls, and other gambling facilities in 28 states. They collectively had an annual gross gaming revenue of $27.9 billion. But how did Indian Casinos become such a fixture of the American landscape? It was a mixture of an unlikely partnership between Indian Tribes and the Mafia, newly enacted federal laws, and the seductiveness of slot machines and blackjack tables. The story begins in 1979 and involves profit skimming, organized crime, and plots to bamboozle big city mayors. From those shady beginnings, the multi-billion dollar gambling empire we know today was born. Donald Mitchell’s Wampum relates, in accessible prose, the tale of how the Mafia invented Indian bingo and replicated the model on Indian reservations nationwide, how Congress’s enactment of a bill unwittingly produced hundreds of Las Vegas-style casinos, and how that same bill has wrought slot machines, fake tribes, and fake reservations across the United States. It is also the first book of its kind to attempt to explain how the story of the injustices the federal government inflicted on Native Americans was used to transform America by institutionalizing gambling.
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Donald Mitchell is the author of Sold 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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Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CIN1468309935G
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Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CIN1468309935G
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