On February 9, 2005, the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, a Minnesota state-wide daily newspaper, published the following letter to
the editor. Along with this letter there was a 3 by 4 inch picture of
a casino card game, plus it had a half inch tall title for the letter.
Tribal gaming will destroy us
The introduction of "Indian Gaming" is more threatening to Native American culture and sovereignty than
alcohol or smallpox ever were. It is causing conflicts between tribes and state governments. What has
the white man ever given Native Americans that he has not, in due time, taken away because of
greed?
State government officials' promises of granting and protecting the Indian monopolies on casino
gambling in their perspective states will be broken, leaving the tribes broke, indebted, addicted
and abandoned. This will be the worst of all our government's broken promises to our country's
Native Americans. And only then will Native American communities that decided to assimilate into
a greedy money loving aspect of the white man's culture understand what a terrible mistake they
made.
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