"Regulated by gaming compacts signed in 2000 with the State of California, dozens of tribal governments offering gaming contribute to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. This fund, according to a study released recently by the University of California Riverside's Center for California Native Nations, has directed $150 million to tribes without gaming, enabling them to add social and governmental services at rates comparable to tribes with gaming.

Make no mistake, poverty remains a severe problem among California tribes and throughout Indian country, but let's please realize that it is poverty, not casino money, that truly stinks."

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Joel W. Martin: Tribal Casino Money (The New York Times 1/24)
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