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Indian Act of 1876
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) is legislation that the U.S. Congress passed in 1988. The act officially recognized American Indians’ right to operate gaming establishments on tribal land. The act also established regulations that required tribes to forfeit a percentage of their earnings to the state, and that limited the class of games that could be played without prior government approval.
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) Quotes in The Inconvenient Indian
The The Inconvenient Indian quotes below are all either spoken by Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) or refer to Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7. Forget about It
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What happens next is complicated, illegal, and sleazy. But, given the history of Indian affairs, not unexpected. The states, along with the federal government and private interests, made it quite clear that while tribes might have the legal right to run gaming enterprises on their reservations, that right could be tied up in the courts until hell froze over. What we need, tribes were told by the powers that be, is a compromise. Compromise is a fine word. So much more generous than blackmail.
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Chapter 8. What Indians Want
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If Native people are to have a future that is of our own making, such a future will be predicated, in large part, on sovereignty.
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Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) Term Timeline in The Inconvenient Indian
The timeline below shows where the term Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) appears in The Inconvenient Indian. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7. Forget about It
...banded together to oppose Brennan’s ruling. In 1988, Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), which recognized tribes’ rights to operate gambling establishments on tribal land—with the caveat that tribes...
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The IGRA established three classes of gambling, I, II, and III. Class I comprised “social gaming with...
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