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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002

The following are responses to a November 14 Los Angeles Times opinion column by journalist who said tribes are not sovereign and that Indian gaming is compensation for past wrongs.

Jack Schwartz: "Indian sovereignty may be limited by conquest, but it is alive and well, as it should be. I'd rather have casinos providing free education, health care, housing and economic-development aid to Indian people than have them on welfare."

Barry Freedman: "Dickey draws a false analogy between granting Indian tribes the right to run casinos and paying reparations to African Americans. Casinos are businesses, however socially harmful, not mere handouts."

George A. Renville: "Dickey had better revisit history if he thinks that 'the reservation system was instituted to give tribes a haven from exploitation by non-Indians.'"

Scott Highfill: "Native Americans have never asked for reparations; they only want us to honor the treaties we signed."

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