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Putting a stop to 'reservation shopping'
 Message was posted: 10:16 Aug 9th, 2006     
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THE House of Representatives has joined colleagues in the Senate in an effort to put a halt to the "reservation shopping" that has threatened to get out of hand since Indian gambling became a lucrative national phenomenon.
The House Resources Committee approved a bill last week authored by Chairman Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, that would prevent tribes from building off-reservation casinos. It would amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, eliminating an exception that allows Indian tribes engaged in gambling to shop for sites off land they own, with approval of the Interior secretary and a state's governor.

The bill is consistent with the intent of California's voter-approved law endorsing Indian gambling, as well as efforts in the Senate, pushed by Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and John McCain, R-Ariz., to curb bids to locate casinos in lucrative urban areas. Several were proposed in the Bay Area.

Pombo said "reservation shopping" has resulted in tribes moving hundreds of miles and across state lines to establish gambling houses.

"This is wrong," he said, noting that "it threatens both the future of Native American economic development and the integrity of Indian tribal sovereignty."

The passage of legislation limiting such off-reservation expansion is a plus for communities where tribes have attempted to establish

casinos against the will of area residents and without paying for the infrastructure, social and public safety problems that often accompany increased gambling.

There are now 408 Indian casinos nationally generating $22.6 billion per year. About three dozen are off-reservation.

Pombo's bill would allow tribes to proceed with efforts to establish off-reservation casinos if they submitted applications prior to March 7. Newly recognized tribes without land, such as the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians that owns the casino in San Pablo, would be allowed to seek agreements with local communities that include tribes paying for infrastructure and public safety costs.

Limits on "reservation shopping" are overdue. California voters assumed — and the Indian leaders originally pushing for voter approval of gambling vowed — that casinos would be restricted to land already owned by the tribes. Buying off-reservation land for such establishments should be prohibited or, at a minimum, subject to the approval of voters in the communities and neighborhoods that would be directly impacted.





Putting a stop to 'reservation shopping'
 Message was posted: 10:21 Aug 14th, 2006     
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Okay, I guess technically they are correct, but then technically, didn't all the land originally belong to the Indians?

So the Indian tribes are reaping the benefits of the casinos and now the government once again wants to stick it to them because 36 of their 408 casinos are on off-reservation land? Crazy!





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