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In reply to the discussion: KETV Omaha: Tribe Demands $500M From Beer Makers [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)The tribe has to look for a development location on land it owns, once owned, or can claim. So wherever it's looking, it is supposed to be Indian land. Can you think of some reasons why former Indian land might be city slums today?
Here's a hint: Your asshole state government is almost certainly refusing to allow the tribe to look anywhere but the slums, because they want the tribes to sink their own development money into those areas, so that they don't have to spend money on the poor themselves.
And while you clearly have been brainwashed by your ignorant local press, the fact remains that the vast majority of Indian casinos are not built to reap enormous profits.
They are built primarily to provide some sort of industry on the the shittiest and farthest out of the way land that white people could find for tribes. Most casinos pay for themselves and provide a benefits package to tribal members that they otherwise would not enjoy, and that's it.
Your neighbors the Oglala Sioux have a casino, for example. I'll bet you've never heard of it, because Nebraska didn't want the Oglala to place their casino on the border.
Because that would be an uncool thing to do to white people.
But your interest seems to be in the casinos carefully positioned to separate rubes from their cash, just like the beer stores across from Pine Ridge.
Of course, it's not like non-Indians haven't hit upon this exact same goddamned idea in the exact same goddamned places, for example at Carter Lake, which was the site of an Iowan casino designed to draw in and fleece Nebraskans in the 1940s.