Re: Request for help: study of gaming
BUNCE NORA E (ftneb@aurora.alaska.edu)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:59:43 -0800
Bill,
In your study I am hoping you will include some of the costs of the
gaming- withdrawn funding for college students; the closure of the
Native American Art Institute in NM; the extra hiring of police force
personell; the increased burden on the local resources of the areas where
gaming facilities are located; the involvement of organized crime trying
to hone in on the operation; in some places, the increase in alcohol
establishments, the decrease in sales to local Native owned businesses
due to an increase in the number fo non-native owned businesses moving
in. All or part of some of these losses are occuring in every area that
has established gaming facilities. I think the most damaging of the
results and the most costly in the long run is the division between the
traditional people and th enon-traditional people, and the loss of
College funding for our Native children. Wherever there has been any
significant sums of money to be had for Native people, the non-native
people have devised very effecient ways of getting the money away from
them. The education that our children are getting cannot be taken away
from them- but the money gained from gaming can. Some of our people feel
that this gaming will be one more destructive tool that our people will
have to survive.
Thank you for your time.
Nora E. Bunce