Casino Roots By Jessica R Cattelino

Stephanie Coontz is a teacher, historian, author and a scholar activist. She has also very indulged in the world of public debate on families, this mostly due possible because of her extensive skills to study modern families as well as historical patterns. In her book The Way We Never Were, Coontz presents a historical look at the family and how it has changed over time. Her interest in the subject comes for her need to understand how families functioned in the past and present, and what lead to notion and definition of family nowadays.

Technology has changed people’s communication greatly. Technology hurts human communication because it separates bonds, and people don’t know how to do face to face talking anymore.

The Indian Act was created in 1876 and has been amended many times through history. The Act was created by European settlers under the British crown in order to assert control over the Indigenous people of Canada. It developed into the takeover of Indigenous land, imposed the rule of the Crown on Indigenous affairs, openly allowed discrimination, and restricts hunting. Also, the act implemented the abolishment of band councils, entrapment within harsh reserve living conditions, the creation of residential schools, the constraint on traditions, culture, ceremonies, and the systematic growth of cultural genocide. This racist relic has imposed a great deal of injustice towards Indigenous people. It establishes a “us v. them” mentality and separates

Jealousy is the key factor that pushes us to do better or it can overpower our thinking abilities because we want to be the best, so we don’t think about how it can affect the people around us. This is exactly what happens in the story, “MVP,” by Clare Mishica. Derek wants to be the most valuable player on his basketball team instead of Cole so much that he forgets to be a team player. When Cole gets hurt, Derek realizes how much more important the trophy and being a part of the team is than getting MVP. Teamwork is always more efficient than trying to achieve something individually because a person can do very little alone, but together we can accomplish a lot. The saying, “Two heads are better than one,” goes along with this perfectly.

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), passed in 1988, gave Native American tribes in the United States permission to institute gambling and gaming facilities on their reservations. The reservations, however, were required to be located in states that already allowed legalized gambling. Many states and

Chapter four A Creation Story introduces the Senate Bill 1365 now revised into two laws ARS 15-341 and ARS 15-710, Albert Hale former Navajo Nation president and Arizona State Senator introduced Bill 1365 in 2004. His intentions behind SB 1365 was to eradicate the so called mutual respect between dominant society and Native Americans specifically Dine people. In order for respect to be reciprocal dominant society needs to know who we are as Dine people as well as our history, government, culture and sovereignty. As the bill is transitioning through the process of being approved there were issues the AZ state board did not agree with. They only approved the history to be taught because they keep control of what they want society to know about us. Just like sovereignty as Native Nation we are semi-sovereign meaning we do not have all the requirements of a sovereign nation. But the two main powers we exercise is self –government, and taxing revenue through gaming. Native American has been a huge part of who we are as Native Nations the

Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California in April of 1952. He is the son of Mexican-American working-class people and he also earned his MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in 1976 at The University of California. In the novel, Pacific Crossing, Soto writes about two teenage best friends who receive an invitation to Japan to participate in an exchange student program. The two friends, Lincoln Mendoza and Tony Contreras, are from California and they both live in the same neighborhood, called a barrio. Gary Soto also lived in a barrio when he was growing up in California. Tony and Lincoln are also Mexican-American, like Soto.

American Indian policy in the US had been ever-changing but as westward expansion began the reservation system, rather than cohabitation, was the most popular method for the theoretical protection of native groups. Disregarding the shortcomings of the reservation system, American Indians could live and practice their beliefs as they always

Steven Whitacre experienced a very traumatic childhood of abuse from his father which led to a very difficult adulthood. In his book “My Fathers Prostitute”, he talks about his life, starting out when his father first abused him to more recent times in adulthood to where he finally sought help and started to move on in his life started to live the life he should and deserves. This book really opened my eyes on what all goes on in this world that I would have never guessed. “Every eight minutes, a child is sexually assaulted in the U.S., and 93% know the perpetrator” (“Adult Survivors of Childhood”). To me this statistic seems insane and I cannot ever imagine being sexually assaulted by anyone let alone one of my parents that I am supposed to trust and love. When you really think about it, that how every eight minutes a child is getting sexually assaulted it is astonishing. It makes me wonder how many people I know that I have been sexually assaulted but don’t tell anyone. I assume there are many different cases of sexual assault and how there are different levels of how traumatic they are to the individual someone came upon. With some people, the sexual assault only happened once, and with others like the author of My Fathers Prostitute it happens during their entire childhood to impact the individual even more. I am not saying that the individuals who have only been sexually assaulted once came out un hurt or traumatized, but I would just imagine that it would not leave

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about a boy named Jack Thayer who was on the Titanic the night it sank. Lauren Tarshis used some of Jack’s quotes for the article. The quotes make you feel like you were at that time and moment. One quote in the article by Lauren Tarshis there was a quote by Jack that said “It was the kind of night that made one glad to be alive.” The reason why Lauren Tarshis put that quote in their is that it helps you picture it in your head.

From the onset of Europe 's exploration to the new world, the Native Americans have had the land that they once called their own stolen from them. As history continued to play out, the Indians could never escape the stigma that they were wild savages. This is no more evident than with the Indian Removal acts of the early nineteenth century in which many Indians were sent to their death on the Trail of Tears. Then came the age of reservations which began just before the Civil War, placing Indian Tribes onto land that they were assigned. This is where they have remained for many years because at the time it was just easier to put them aside. Even though the history between the two has been rough their relationship evolved overtime. The United States have become an important ally for the tribes even they were the ones who put them on the reservations in the first place. The United States government should do more to help Indian casinos, domestic violence cases, and poverty and land disputes because of the sovereign nation’s troubles with these issues.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was passed by the United States on October 17, 1988, to manage gaming on tribal lands. It provided the main framework by providing a legislative basis for operation of Indian gaming. It protected the right to game which encourages increases in revenue and economic development within tribes. It also ensured that the games were fair and honest. This law established the National Indian Gaming Commission, which is a independent federal regulatory agency within the Department of Interior. This commission is the only federal agency that is solely purposed to manage gambling, which sometimes involves other departments such as the U.S. Department of Justice. In my opinion, Indian gaming is positive and most likely

Nina Raine’s play uses image in the title of her play. The title Tribes is an image because it has a different meaning in regards to what the play is about. It does not mean what one would typically think it means. The known of the image is the word tribe. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, tribe is “a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers” or “a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest.” The unknown of the image is that Billy wants to feel a part of a “tribe.” He wants to be surrounded by people who understand him. His family is his “tribe” but they do not understand what it’s like to be ignored because of the language

Adding to Native American casino fortunes, their casinos are likely to increase over the next few years. It is noted that several states are reaching agreements to allow the introduction or expansion of Native American casinos because of the additional revenues they can provide. This increases the Native American casinos opportunities and consitutes a high barrier for new entrants. The major source for this entry barrier is the cost disadvantage independent of scale regarding the favorable government polices vis -a -vis the Indian Gaming and Recration Act of 1988.