Amphibious
Land, water, wherever.
Nah, just not an ignorant fukk like yourself who is narrow minded
All that California pollution and radiation must be distorting your brain.
Native Americans get $200K at 18 after graduating high school
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Nah, just not an ignorant fukk like yourself who is narrow minded
All that California pollution and radiation must be distorting your brain.
Keep c00ning.Nah, just not an ignorant fukk like yourself who is narrow minded
Indian tribes and casinos
The last shall be first
Tribes near the coasts and the cities were once the poorest. Gambling has certainly changed all that
THERE are two kinds of house on the Morongo Indian reservation: those that were built before the casinos opened and those that came after. The house where Mary Ann Andreas grew up has two rooms and, as she remembers, no electricity or running water. Her new house, just a few hundred yards away, has a two-car garage and “all the amenities”. It is not, however, the most ostentatious house on the reservation. And if a gambling bill that was debated in California's Senate this week becomes law, it may come to seem rather modest.
Twenty years ago the Supreme Court ruled that states had no right to restrict gambling on Indian reservations if they allowed it elsewhere. At the time, several tribes, including the Morongo, ran nothing more ambitious than bingo halls. That has changed. In 2005 there were 391 casinos and gambling rooms on Indian lands, with total revenues of $22.6 billion—more than Atlantic City and Las Vegas put together.
Half of California's 100-odd tribes now run gambling operations, but the Morongo have profited more than most. Their small, windy reservation near Cabazon is next to the main road east from Los Angeles. The tribe's 27-storey hotel (see above) currently has 2,000 slot machines. The bill now being discussed by state politicians would allow it to install 7,500. People used to leave the reservation in order to work. Now some 3,000 workers, few of them Native Americans, arrive each day.
As for the Morongo, most no longer do any paid work at all. The 775 adult members of the tribe receive seven-tenths of the casino's profits in dividends (the rest is spent by the tribal government). The exact sum is kept secret, but Robert Martin, the tribal chairman, allows that it is roughly $15,000 to $20,000 per person, per month. Not surprisingly, some people have rediscovered their Morongo roots and moved back to the reservation. As Mr Martin observes wryly: “It wasn't fashionable to be Indian until recently.”
The last shall be first
Tribes near the coasts and the cities were once the poorest. Gambling has certainly changed all that
THERE are two kinds of house on the Morongo Indian reservation: those that were built before the casinos opened and those that came after. The house where Mary Ann Andreas grew up has two rooms and, as she remembers, no electricity or running water. Her new house, just a few hundred yards away, has a two-car garage and “all the amenities”. It is not, however, the most ostentatious house on the reservation. And if a gambling bill that was debated in California's Senate this week becomes law, it may come to seem rather modest.
Twenty years ago the Supreme Court ruled that states had no right to restrict gambling on Indian reservations if they allowed it elsewhere. At the time, several tribes, including the Morongo, ran nothing more ambitious than bingo halls. That has changed. In 2005 there were 391 casinos and gambling rooms on Indian lands, with total revenues of $22.6 billion—more than Atlantic City and Las Vegas put together.
Half of California's 100-odd tribes now run gambling operations, but the Morongo have profited more than most. Their small, windy reservation near Cabazon is next to the main road east from Los Angeles. The tribe's 27-storey hotel (see above) currently has 2,000 slot machines. The bill now being discussed by state politicians would allow it to install 7,500. People used to leave the reservation in order to work. Now some 3,000 workers, few of them Native Americans, arrive each day.
As for the Morongo, most no longer do any paid work at all. The 775 adult members of the tribe receive seven-tenths of the casino's profits in dividends (the rest is spent by the tribal government). The exact sum is kept secret, but Robert Martin, the tribal chairman, allows that it is roughly $15,000 to $20,000 per person, per month. Not surprisingly, some people have rediscovered their Morongo roots and moved back to the reservation. As Mr Martin observes wryly: “It wasn't fashionable to be Indian until recently.”
Regardless, if they were here first, as a people (as we know them as today) they were still bamboozled and treated like shyt by white European settlers whose ancestors still live on this land today.
Also, there's evidence that suggests that even the Vikings may have sailed to the Americas before the Asian migrants that later became "native americans", but they, and those early EARLY (supposedly white) hunter-gatherers left very little evidence to suggest that they stayed or were able to survive for a significant amount of time so its still accurate to say that the Native Americans that we know today are the true natives of North America.
Cave Savage
Feminist
The Solutrean Theory is just white supremacist garbage and it has been debunked
Yeah, I imagine more White people coming out the woodwork to claim that Injun great grandad. Hanging dreamcatcher wind chimes in their garden and shyt for that guap.
Insensitive
Superstar
@ The white chicks in the video saying "We think it's unfair".Tough fukking luck.
They're native to the land, now they're a minority, I'm certain they think THAT'S unfair.
The jerk in me would stunt on them with my 200K after graduation.
Then I'd put that towards getting a masters
It's right there that this is from casino profits but cats still used this thread to deal with their insecurities
exactly, one thing i hate about this site, people are always looking for good things that other groups have to create a narrative. i think people are pretending to not understand tbh. they choose to see it as how they want
I cant get mad that is a very great incentive to graduate...
Although i heard not many other tribes get the same treatment... so......
Queen
CEO of #GPB
The "native americans" were black and became exterminated, mixed out, and enslaved in their own land. But I will let you all cook.
i read this earlier this month but didn't post.
plenty of flava in the tribes in connecticut.
Pequots, Mohegans, sign deal to create a cooperative casino
By Ken Dixon
Pequots, Mohegans, sign deal to create a cooperative casino
Updated 11:34 pm, Thursday, September 10, 2015
Photo: Lauren Schneiderman / Hartford Courant Via AP
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Kevin Brown, left, Chairman of the Mohegan Tribal Council and Rodney Butler, right, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, host an historic signing ceremony on Thursday at the state Capitol in Hartford, formalizing their new casino venture north of the city. In an effort to halt an exodus of gamblers and the loss of industry jobs, the tribes, backed by the Legislature and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, hope to compete with the planned MGM Resorts casino in Springfield, Mass.
HARTFORD — After hundreds of years of combat, first in the woodlands of eastern Connecticut and most recently in the casino marketplace, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes on Thursday signed an agreement to attack a common enemy: the planned $800-million MGM gambling palace planned for Springfield, Massachusetts.
During a signing ceremony in the State Capitol’s historic Hall of Flags, Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council and Kevin Brown, his counterpart on the Mohegan Tribal Council, were joined by dozens of tribal members and unionized casino workers to mark the occasion.
Butler said that the two tribes have “a complicated” history going back more than 400 years, including head-to-head casino-gambling competition since 1996.
“Over the last several months we have worked together for one common purpose: to protect Connecticut jobs,” Butler said. “We’re facing a serious challenge to Connecticut’s economy.”
The new satellite casino is expected to cost about $300 million and have as many as 2,000 slot machines and 150 table games. A study commissioned by the tribes projected a new casino could create about 6,000 jobs and generate $78 million in new taxes.
Several towns and cities in the Hartford area, including East Hartford and Enfield, are interested in hosting the joint Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot casino to compete with MGM Springfield, currently scheduled to open in 2018.
The threat of competition from Massachusetts led the General Assembly to pass a law this spring to support such a project, but the proposal still needs approval from the state’s attorney general.
The New Haven-based Pearce Real Estate has been selected to develop plans and accept proposals for the new location somewhere north of Hartford in the Interstate 91 corridor.
Proposals would be accepted until the end of November, with a winning site selected in early 2016.
Current state law limits casino development to the sovereign Pequots and Mohegans.
Julie Kushner, regional director of the United Auto Workers, the union that represents dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino, said that casino employment, with opportunities for advancement, are crucial.
“We see this opportunity for Connecticut about building more good jobs, good-paying jobs, jobs with benefits and employers who respect the rights of workers,” Kushner said.
“This is an amazing opportunity in Connecticut.”
kdixon@ctpost.com;
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Chairman Cedric Cromwell, left, and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Rodney Butler at the New England Gaming Summit Nov.
NERO
All Star
They still have their names and languages and they have their own spaces. We on the other hand get the names Washington or Johnson or Jones or Davis, our language stripped, the country got rich and fat on our labor and if we try to go back "home" to the continent we are mocked and taken advantage of in many cases. I think we got the worse deal by far. When we innovate the whites just take it and claim they invented it.