Why do the native people of north america own many casinos there?
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In general, because they get special treatment when it comes to gambling laws.
Traditional social games of chance, such as bingo, are given largely tax free treatment for the tribe. This extends to electronic kiosks with slot-like graphics that are simply interfaces for a really complicated game of bingo with other players in the casino proper.
These rules allow them to host gambling-like activities in areas where gambling itself is banned. For example, the Poarch Creek tribe operates a few properties in Alabama this way, because what they are offering is legally not gambling.
Casinos are extremely profitable
Hazard is banned in us afaik
Rules are different for reservations, allowing them to have casinos and hazard
You can add 2 things together haha
+ It is sort of reparations for everything Americans did to them
Reservations are a unique political structure, and are not subject to the laws of the state they are within. Instead they are mostly autonomous, and thus not subject to statewide bans on gambling. Add on to this that many reservations are resource poor, because historically the US government kept the profitable land for themselves and established reservations on unwanted lands. Throw in generations of repression and mistreatment by the rest of the country and you have an incredibly poor population without much means to assist their members. So, tribes turned to gambling as a way to generate significant amounts of revenue that didn’t necessitate highly skilled labor.
Through a set of agreements between the Indian nations and the US Government the Indians is considered separate nations from the rest of the US, but still the same country. Essentially their status is given by the federal government and not the state government so state law does not apply on Indian reserves. They still have to follow federal laws as well as their own laws but not state law. The federal laws does not ban gambling but most of the state laws do. So an Indian reserve can chose for themselves if gambling should be allowed or not. That means that even if gambling is illegal in a state you might find casinos in an Indian reserve within that state.
When casinos were banned in most states, Indian tribal lands were exempt from those laws. So while a casino couldn’t be opened legally in Connecticut or Wisconsin, it was legal to do so on tribal lands within those states.
The US government has broken/violated almost every treaty made with tribes, and so they decided to give them gambling businesses to make up for it.
One of the interesting things about Indian casinos is that they have different games, or different versions of games, that you find in regular non-Indian casinos.
Why did the government “give in” to the native Americans, and after such a long time?
We’re they afraid that all tribes would overthrow the government so they made a settlement?
Genuinely curious, because I don’t understand how one group is discriminated against and suddenly the government is being “fair” to them. Couldn’t they technically prohibit these reservations before they started?
Obviously I’m all for the rights of everyone, including the native Americans of course. To be clear.
Basically as they are considered a separation “nation” in some respects, under the United States, they are exempt from some state laws on their respective territory. So if a state doesn’t allow casinos, the Native tribes can create one on their own territory, which will attract customers.
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