Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Native Americans pay $50 million annually to local governments across the nation. In addition, non-Natives hold 75% of the 300,000 jobs that belong to Native American gaming. [4] With gaming profits, the Creek Nation of Oklahoma has built its own hospital staffed by Native American doctors and nurses. [5]
The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal was a United States political scandal exposed in 2005; it related to fraud perpetrated by political lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon on Native American tribes who were seeking to develop casino gambling on their reservations.
Although many Native American tribes have casinos, the impact of Native American gaming is widely debated. Some tribes, such as the Winnemem Wintu of Redding, California, feel that casinos and their proceeds destroy culture from the inside out. These tribes refuse to participate in the gambling industry.
A lot of people know that tribes have casinos — those casino businesses are run like a legal entity related or owned by the tribal government. So what that does is that creates some complexity.
Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes ...
When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. A federal lawsuit ...
There are now approximately twenty-four Native American casinos throughout Arizona, as of 2013. [1] Pattea died from an illness on the morning of July 5, 2013, at his home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, at the age of 81. [1] [2] His family had held a celebration of his life in June 2013 as his health had deteriorated. [1]
Nearly 1,000 Native American children died or were killed while forced to attend U.S. government-affiliated boarding schools, according to a report by the Interior Department.. Pictured above, the ...