Letter: Gaming tribes share with poorer tribes

Tuesday, January 24, 2006  

"Regulated by gaming compacts signed in 2000 with the State of California, dozens of tribal governments offering gaming contribute to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. This fund, according to a study released recently by the University of California Riverside's Center for California Native Nations, has directed $150 million to tribes without gaming, enabling them to add social and governmental services at rates comparable to tribes with gaming.

Make no mistake, poverty remains a severe problem among California tribes and throughout Indian country, but let's please realize that it is poverty, not casino money, that truly stinks."

Get the Story:
Joel W. Martin: Tribal Casino Money (The New York Times 1/24)
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