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What is the inside behind-the scenes story of Indian Casinos? More money than Las Vegas, more visitors than Disney World, and operating as sovereign nations exempt from all state civil law and many criminal laws; what is the“inside scoop”? This is the only authoritative exploration of these multi-billion dollar enterprises; written by a genuine insider: the casino “guru” who has developed, operated, managed, and marketed Indian casinos all over the country. With unprecedented access to and cooperation from Tribes, the casinos, the staffs, the regulators, the lawyers, and the ...

The American Revolution not only changed the continent of North America, but the ideas it represented would go on to change the world. The notion of a state where individual liberty was guaranteed to all citizens and where hereditary positions of power did not exist would directly lead to the French Revolution and to other movements around the world that sought to bring fundamental political and societal changes.

In June 1877 the final great American Indian War began when Chief Joseph and four other chiefs refused to comply with a treaty they had not signed. They led their groups of Nez Perce away from their ancestral lands and the reservation in an attempt to retain their freedom. Their flight led them through the heart of Yellowstone, the world's first and newly created National Park. In the Park the Indians encountered several groups of whites. The consequences were fatal for some and life-changing for all. This is a first-hand account of four groups and their encounters told by survivors. This ...

Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Reed shares this history to inform the path toward an alternative future.

This book presents a series of exclusive images which pictorially chart the lives, some remarkable architectural achievements and the beliefs of the pre-Colombian Maya civilisation of Mesoamerica.This volume will also serve as useful reference material for my forthcoming book ‘Going Native: The Story of Gonzalo Guerrero’.It features pictures and explanation of some of the most stunning architecture, beautiful and enchanting haunts and religious beliefs of this fascinating civilisation.The Maya have enthralled generations across the world since they first came into I’ll-fated contact ...

In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory, House of the Good Shepherd, and other Progressive Era facilities.