Abstract
Gambling, or its more dignified terminological brother gaming, straddles that nebulous line between legal and illegal, moral and immoral, healthy and sick in the consciousness of many mainstream American citizens and policy makers. And nothing brings out that ambivalence in the American cultural mind more than Native American gaming. Indians continue to suffer the dichotomized thinking that would have them be simply good Indians or bad Indians. 1 When associated with the "natural" 2 world, Mother Earth, we are good Indians, but when we are involved in the business of making money from gambling, we are bad Indians. Following Lewis Carroll's wonderland satire of logic for a moment, I will attempt to illustrate how the American cultural logic toward Indians works. Lewis writes, "Babies are illogical. Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. Illogical persons are despised" (Weaver, 34). Warren Weaver explains the links:
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