Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise.
By Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R. L. Rand. Lawrence: University Press
of Kansas, 2005. 240p. $29.95.
Is gambling the answer to reservation poverty—the “new
buffalo,” as some Native Americans have called it? In some places,
such as the Pequots' Foxwoods in Connecticut, small groups of
American Indians have been enriched. In other places, such as the New York
Oneida Nation in Upstate New York, gambling has provided a rather vaguely
constituted polity the means with which to hire police who force dissident
antigambling traditionalists from their homes. Among the Mohawks at
Akwesasne, people have died over the issue.