Dan Walters: Indian Tribes' Dual Status a Slippery Slope

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WHEN California Indian tribes were impoverished and virtually invisible, politicians could ignore them.

When the tribes gained the exclusive right to operate gambling casinos, however, politicians were drawn to them like flies to flypaper - a relationship sweetened with many millions of dollars in campaign checks.

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Dan Walters: Indian Tribes' Dual Status a Slippery Slope

Mostly, the tribes wanted to bolster their monopoly on full- scale gambling, especially all-important slot machines, which are quite literally licenses to print money. But once they had their monopol...

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