Question cocerning Native Americans

[prankster]

1. Do the members of a tribe which owns and runs a casino each receive monthly profits from the casino? Someone was telling me that it is a myth that the members of the tribe receive profits-that the money goes to roads,schools,etc. I don't think that is true,after all how many schools,hospitals,etc can you build?

2. Do Native Americans receive money each month from the Federal Government of the United States?

I'm asking these questions because I'm curious. It always strikes me as crazy when people sound p.o.'d that Native Americans are making money from their casinos,selling cigarettes, etc.

[bj bob]

Originally Posted by prankster

1. Do the members of a tribe which owns and runs a casino each receive monthly profits from the casino? Someone was telling me that it is a myth that the members of the tribe receive profits-that the money goes to roads,schools,etc. I don't think that is true,after all how many schools,hospitals,etc can you build?

2. Do Native Americans receive money each month from the Federal Government of the United States?

I'm asking these questions because I'm curious. It always strikes me as crazy when people sound p.o.'d that Native Americans are making money from their casinos,selling cigarettes, etc.

1) Don't really know.
2) I'm a "Native American" (honest Injun, born and raised in the good 'ol U.S. of A.) and I don't get squat!

[creeping panther]

It differs with each tribe, some get a stipend, some none. Some get benes and no money. Yes they also get Federal benes.

Some are making millions, some in the hundreds of thousands per year, tribal members that is.

CP

[Brutus]

I did something for a gal who was a member of the tribe that owns Casino Morongo. she had plenty, but cried poor all the time.
a likeable person though.

[ccl]

i dealt with a guy who's tribe had a tiny slot casino and he recieved a monthly amount that was pretty small but he always got it, i think the amount varies per tribe

chris

[Automatic Monkey]

Typically there is a disbursement of profits to all tribal members, but the profits have usually been skimmed so thoroughly the low men on the totem pole don't get much.

Another game they play is once they get the casino up and running, they start throwing people out of the tribe so there are fewer to share the money with. What a bunch of scum- real Indians would never do that.

What I don't understand is if the Indian casinos can disregard state gambling laws and have legal gambling, why can't they disregard state prostitution laws and have whores too? BJ will never be the same! And there will never be a problem finding penetration.

[zengrifter]

Speaking of natives -

Taking Columbus Day Off (the Calendar)

By Troy Doney, 10-13-08

The Post Office won’t be delivering any mail. Federal Agencies across America are closed for the day. Banks are emptied of personnel. Most of the nation is still at work, some parades are snaking their way through cities and Italian Americans are supposedly celebrating a famous figure. Most notably, a 14.92 percent discount is in effect at clever stores.

It’s Columbus Day, everyone.

It’s hard to imagine that this is a holiday. Even before it became politically correct to view the European colonization of the Americas as ‘flawed in some respects’, there shouldn’t have been much to celebrate. There aren’t a lot of holidays that celebrate screwing up finding India, but making the best of it by ushering in generations of genocide and exploitation. And yet, postal workers nationwide get to chill out today.

What is there to celebrate? What positives outshine the countless negatives about this particular holiday? Nobody celebrates the assassination of Franz Fernidad, the opening of Auschwitz, the completion of the Manhattan Project or the inauguration of Slobodan Milošević. So why is it that people are in the streets rejoicing an event that led to a similar slaughter of a people from sea to shining sea?

Not everyone is celebrating it, mind you. Berkeley, California, is celebrating Indigenous People’s Day. South Dakota has “Native American Day” in lieu of celebrating the wayward Genoese. The Virgin Islands have the “Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Friendship Day.” In 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez changed the name of Dia de la Raza (Day of the Race) to Dia de la Resistencia Indigena (Day of Indigenous Resistance).

Every one of those holidays is far more worth celebrating then a lost man who discovered a place that was already populated for ages in the name of “God, Gold and Glory.”

To me, Columbus Day isn’t a holiday. Yet it persists. I’m going to go out today and discover the nearby McDonald’s. I’ll take some fries that I also discovered, maybe a recently discovered Big Mac, too.

How much longer until Leif Erikson Day?

xxx

[shadroch]

I happily celebrate Columbus Day. Being a true Irishman, I also celebrate St Brendans Day, St Leos Day, Secratary Week,Tax Day, Blue Moon weekend, ect,ect.

[GeorgeD]

Originally Posted by shadroch

I happily celebrate Columbus Day. Being a true Irishman, I also celebrate St Brendans Day, St Leos Day, Secratary Week,Tax Day, Blue Moon weekend, ect,ect.

Can't forget St Paddy's Day.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by shadroch

I happily celebrate Columbus Day. Being a true Irishman, I also celebrate St Brendans Day, St Leos Day, Secratary Week,Tax Day, Blue Moon weekend, ect,ect.

I'll drink to that! zg