Tribes split into two camps over casinos
With her kerosene lantern, Francine Kupsch helped lead California Indians into the golden era of casino riches. A film crew recorded Kupsch as she used the lamp’s glow to teach her son to read and talked about how gambling profits would bring electricity to her reservation: “We’ll have a refrigerator.”
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Gambling casinos history:
- Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
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