"Strangely, my research adventure last weekend took us to two separate Indian casinos five hours' drive apart from each other, on the same day.
And so it was that I found myself sitting on Saturday in a food court in the Turning Stone Indian Casino in rural New York, a jarringly urban high-rise resort hotel and casino that towered above a green, undeveloped and relatively unpopulated country landscape.
To my left an obese man in a "Hooters Las Vegas" T-shirt was aggressively massacring a pile of chicken wings. Behind me, a twentysomething girl was drinking a beer that she'd bought from the food court's ice cream stand.
It did not appear to be her first beer for the day.
It was 1pm."
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The curious beast of the Indian casino
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Travel: A strange visit to two tribal casinos in the Northeast
Friday, November 11, 2011
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