{"id":9410,"date":"2018-07-02T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:17:30","slug":"record-indian-gaming-revenues-not-exactly-helping-tribal-state-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/record-indian-gaming-revenues-not-exactly-helping-tribal-state-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Indian Gaming Revenues Not Exactly Helping Tribal-State Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian gaming<\/strong> has gone from bingo halls in the boonies to big business. Plus, revenues just keep on rising. A fact that only seems to exacerbate the many divisive issues between the Native American tribes<\/strong> that own casinos and the states they operate in.<\/p>\n

It was 1987 when the Supreme Court of the United States<\/strong> decided states that allow some form of gaming have no authority<\/strong> to regulate or prohibit gaming on Indian land.<\/p>\n

The decision amounted to an invitation for a huge number of Native American tribes to build casinos. In fact, hundreds eventually would<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act<\/span><\/h2>\n

A year later, federal lawmakers tried to give states some measure of control over Indian gaming. They passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act <\/strong>(IGRA).<\/p>\n

IGRA essentially required states to enter into good-faith negotiations<\/strong> with tribes establishing gaming operations. The outcome of these negotiations are the gaming compacts that make the Indian gaming operations lawful. However, they also often give tribes exclusive rights to gaming<\/strong> in the areas where they operate in return for a piece of revenues<\/strong> going to the state or host community.<\/p>\n

At the time, general consensus<\/a> among members of Congress was Indian gaming wasn\u2019t worth much<\/strong>. In fact, some even said it amounted to little more than a couple of slot machines and bingo games hundreds of miles and millions of dollars away from the legal and regulated casino industry in Nevada <\/strong>and New Jersey<\/strong>. However, it got big fast.<\/p>\n

By 1993, the New York Times<\/strong><\/a> reported as many as 175 tribes in 25 states<\/strong> had jumped in the gaming business. Plus, Indian gaming was suddenly a $6-billion-a-year industry<\/strong> growing by $1 billion annually<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A Native American casino construction boom continued for the next 25 years and now, the industry is even bigger than anticipated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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