Native American Gaming Research Articles

Native American Gaming: Will Organized Crime Organize on the Reservation?

Native American Gaming: Will Organized Crime Organize on the Reservation?

The South Carolina Battlefield

IT is AN UNLIKELY PLACE, but the Palmetto State is the battlefield for gaming in 1999. In South Carolina, opponents of legalized gaming may yet have perhaps their best opportunity in eight decades for turning back an established statewide gaming industry. While some gaming insiders might consider this bad news, they should instead consider it to be good news. While it would certainly not be appropriate for gaming proponents in other jurisdictions to explicitly support the South Carolina gaming opponents, they should at least be silently cheering them on. No less than the spectacle created by unregulated Native American gaming prior to the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, the South Carolina gaming establishment holds out very real prospects for criminal involvement, repeated law violations, unfair games, and a gaming product marketed heavily to problem gamblers. South Carolina gaming paints the kind of image that the legitimate gaming industry wants to avoid. There are now over 30,000 video slot machines in South Carolina; they are found in every county, in 346 different municipalities, and in thousands of locations. According to reports filed by the operators, the machines have a collective win approaching $600 million each year. Calculated on a win-per-machine basis, the average South Carolina slot machine nets $20,000 per year.

A Research Guide for Native American Gaming in California

A Research Guide for Native American Gaming in California

Native American Economic Development on Selected Reservations

Abstract. Native American Gaming currently is perceived as the economic development stategy that will help reduce Indian Reservations‘high rates of family poverty. There is, however, considerable legislative activity at the state and federal level which is aimed at reducing this opportunity. The paper examines three decades of economic development activity on the reservations in an attempt to explore what alternative stategies tribal governments have available in the event that Indian gambling falls short in its objective. Using Census data, the paper concludes that strategies based on the promotion of government or private employment; the promotion of natural resources or manufacturing have fallen short. Education, as an indirect approach to economic development, appears to consistently be one of the more important priorities that tribal leaders can stress in their attempts to reduce family poverty rates.

Native American casino gambling in Arizona: A case study of the Fort McDowell reservation

Since Congress passed the American Indian Gambling Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988, there has been an explosion in the number of gambling casinos located on Native American reservations. It is estimated that in 1994 the total net revenue from 81 Native American casinos exceeded $2.3 billion dollars. As the number of Native American casinos grows along with the volume of gambling activity, opposition increases from states, the established gambling industry hurt by lost revenues, and groups with moral objections to gambling. This article reports on an effort to measure the economic impact of the Fort McDowell casino located near Phoenix, Arizona. The article discusses the casino's history and current operations. Next, it explains the use of an input-output model to compute the impact of casino's income and employment effects on the economy of Maricopa County. It is estimated that the casino is responsible for 2,483 new jobs, and an increase of approximately $80.35 million in regional output. Additional information is necessary to more accurately assess both the benefits and costs of the casino. Unfortunately, subsequent efforts to collect additional data have been unsuccessful. The conclusion discusses why, and raises questions regarding Native American gaming.

Clarification of Names and Locations for Native American Gaming

Clarification of Names and Locations for Native American Gaming

The Growth and Impact of Native American Gaming

The Growth and Impact of Native American Gaming