One of the new ways the industry is growing is through what critics call 'reservation shopping' -- the push to build Indian casinos on nonreservation land.
The $19 billion Indian casino industry continues to grow amid increasing political controversy... Casino gambling ... is now coming to cities and even small towns across America and bringing with it all its social ills.
...Local and state control is at issue here. While Indian casinos can create hundreds of jobs - sometimes in hard-pressed areas - they also can erode the tax base because of tribes' sovereignty under federal law and treaties dating back into the 19th century.
'Nowhere in the process do communities have anything to say about it...' "
FULL STORY: Tribal casinos push beyond the reservations
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