Oklahoma's gaming share grows
Tribes contributed almost $106M to Oklahoma’s coffers this fiscal year
JAY F. MARKS
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Published: July 8, 2009
Tribal Casino tax revenue: (View the larger map here)
Source: Oklahoma Office of State Finance
The sky may be the limit for casinos operated by Oklahoma Indian tribes, judging by the state’s share of gaming revenue.
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Indian gaming generated more than $26.7 billion in gross revenue in 2008 at about 400 tribal casinos and bingo halls, according to the National Indian Gaming Commission. The two regions that include parts of Oklahoma showed the strongest growth over 2007, netting about $3 billion. Oklahoma is home to 104 gaming operations in the region that also includes Texas and Kansas, according to the commission’s figures. Those states have only six gaming operations.
Indian gaming generated more than $26.7 billion in gross revenue in 2008 at about 400 tribal casinos and bingo halls, according to the National Indian Gaming Commission. The two regions that include parts of Oklahoma showed the strongest growth over 2007, netting about $3 billion. Oklahoma is home to 104 gaming operations in the region that also includes Texas and Kansas, according to the commission’s figures. Those states have only six gaming operations.
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Louis, How is that stealing, when You and all the losers that gamble cheerfully dig into your pocket in hopes that you will get money for nothing? You are old enough to know that gambling is geared to house wins. It's called making a profit by providing a service. That service is entertaining and serving the primal greed that is so prevalent in people nowdays. So take it and shut up....or quit throwing your money down the slot....
The act provided for the following:
1.The Justice of the Peace would have jurisdiction over all complaints between Indians and Whites; "but in no case shall a white man be convicted of any offense upon the testimony of an Indian or Indians."
2.Landowners would permit Indians who were peaceably residing on their land to continue to do so.
3.Whites would be able to obtain control of Indian children. (This section would eventually be used to justify and provide for Indian slavery.)
4.If any Indian was convicted of a crime, any White person could come before the court and contract for the Indian's services, and in return, would pay the Indian's fine.
5.It would be illegal to sell or administer alcohol to Indians.
6.Indians convicted of stealing a horse, mule, cow, or any other valuable could receive any number of lashes not to exceed 25, and fines not to exceed $200. (It should be noted that the law provided that abusing an Indian child by Whites was to be punished by no more than a $10 fine. It is hard to compare the penalty with the crime.)
7.Finally, an Indian found strolling, loitering where alcohol was sold, begging, or leading a profligate course of life would be liable for arrest. The justice, mayor, or recorder would make out a warrant. Within 24 hours, the services of the Indian in question could be sold to the highest bidder. The term of service would not exceed four months.
This law was widely abused with regard to the use of Indians as laborers, though it did allow Indians to reside on private land.
During 1851 and 1852, the California Legislature authorized payment of $1,100,000 for the "supression of Indian hostilities. Again, in 1857, the Legislature issued bonds for $410,000 for the same purpose." (Heizer, 1978:108) While theoretically attempting to resolve White-Indian conflicts, these payments only encouraged Whites to form volunteer companies and try to eliminate all the Indians in California
THIS IS BUT ONE EXAMPLE OF THE MISTREATMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS. The government is still mistreating reservation Indians, by giving government contracts to non- indian firms, for project in and around reservation areas.....And Still it continues....
If they are giving education 100 million dollars a year, then I am the King of Gotebo! The shape our education system is in, shows that there is no possible way that there is that kind of dollars being spent on infrastructure. The money is being misused by administrators statewide. There can be no other explaination.
The white man has always taken from the redman. It continues today and well into the future. Unashamed, the government has taken from the indigenous peoples of this land, and most whites even today stand by their governments' treatment of native Americans. The casino revenue grab, is just another ploy to rob the Tribes of their earned income. It is government sponsored extortion,as, if the tribes don't payoff the government, they will lose their license, and the business shut down...Extortion....