Why do the native people of north america own many casinos there?
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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.
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