An article of mine about my opposition to tribal casino and bingo hall gambling is titled --- Opposed to tribal gambling and derogatory geographical site names. Excerpts from the article read:

Because I am a hippie counter-cultural Catholic, I am therefore radically opposed to the dominate culture's earth and health destroying materialistic culture.

The Rainbow Family of living Light is a tribe of counter-cultural activists who gather yearly in numbers up to 40,000 in national forests to participate in community building within alterative lifestyles, based on Native American traditions. This tribe is made up of 1960s influenced hippie counter-cultural activists who protest against the dominate culture's materialistic value system and those who promote it, such as people who promote tribal casino and bingo gambling.

We believe in the Hopi prophecy: "You will see many youth, who wear their hair long like my people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn their ways and wisdom."

Currently, a lot of tribal nations are believing in and promoting the dominate cultures materialistic value system by establishing casinos and bingo halls on and off their reservations. Therefore, now-a-days we have to also protest against a lot of tribal nations for abandoning their sacred traditional cultures in order to make a lot of money by getting into cahoots with the worst of the greedy and corrupt elite, such as the Las Vegas type leaders of the rip off gambling industry - or crooks who are in cahoots with the greedy and corrupt corporate elite of the alcohol and tobacco industries. These people make a lot of money by taking advantage of people with addition weaknesses.

Within our present-day multicultural society a lot of good willed people mistakenly thought that it would be good to let oppressed and deeply impoverished Indian tribes have casinos. However, unlike Las Vegas type leaders of the gambling industry, little did they know that once the Indian tribes with casinos started making a lot of money state governments would get greedy and want to make a lot of money by owning and running state owned casino gambling businesses. And that once state governments get in cahoots with the Las Vegas type leaders of the gambling industry and establish state owned casinos, then, like in some states, the Las Vegas type leaders of the gambling industry, leaders who are in cahoots with the leaders of the alcohol and tobacco industries, establish the biggest and most powerful lobby in the state. They then virtually run the states they take over. Those states then become promoters of radical hedonism. Tribes that have casinos have fallen right into their trap as have also a lot of other naive U.S. citizens.

In a rare show of unity on a public-policy issue, the mainline ecumenical National Council of Churches and the conservative evangelical Christian Coalition announced January 17, 2006 that they would work together to try to stop the spread of legal gambling in the U.S.. Tom Grey, the executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, is also the director of the national religious community's new anti-gambling Washington office. Tom Grey said the interfaith effort is a signal that the nation's religious community is ready to take the offensive against the gambling industry.

Tom Grey read the following anti-casino statement by Irving Powless Jr. to me during an April 9, 2007 telephone conversation. Powless Jr. is chief of the Onondaga Nation.

"We won't put a casino here in Onondaga. It's an addictive detriment to the community, and the surrounding community. People lose their houses, jobs and families because of casinos. We won't base our economic development on such an (enterprise). As soon as you put up a casino, people want to go there and make money, and all they care about is money," Gewas Schindler (a grandson of an Onondaga chief and a first round draft choice in the NLL in1999) says. "It's almost a complete mind-changer. You put it up and it begins to destroy your traditions." (ref.) New York Daily News

"This is a good example of what happens when states allow or lure Indian tribes to establish casinos. When Indian casinos are established states get greedy for a cut of the lute that the lucrative Indian gambling businesses bring in. And this disease of greed causes more and more problems, it creates unhealthy competition, states against tribes and tribes against tribes, tribes and state Indian affairs councils abandon their good traditional values, sacred Indian sites are left unprotected, derogatory and profane geographic site names that are offensive to Indians who have not abandon their traditional culture for easy casinos money do not get replaced. They do not get replaced, because state Indian affairs councils that are preoccupied with promoting Indian casino gambling will not give their support for the efforts to replace derogatory names. They no longer care about protecting sacred Indian sites, nor replacing geographic site names that are offensive to them. They only care about their greedy casino gambling business interests."