Gaming isn't the only way to generate revenues in Indian Country. Tourism is becoming an option for tribes and tribal members.

Take John Fendenheim, a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona. Through tribal financing, he has been able to expand his tourist shop near the historic San Xavier del Bac Mission. He is seeing $1 million in revenues a year.

Getting tourists to the reservation is a challenge but so is keeping them there. Tourists need places to stay and need to feel welcome, says the executive director of the Pine Ridge Area Chamber of Commerce on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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Tribes face tourism challenges (The Christian Science Monitor 7/30)