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High Stakes : Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty /
In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has create...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2008]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Seminole Gaming in the Sunshine State
- 1. Casino Roots
- 2. Cultural Currencies
- 3. Fungibility: The Politics of Casino Money
- Interlude: Mateo Romero's Indian Gaming
- 4. Rebuilding Sovereignty
- 5. Sovereign Interdependencies
- Conclusion: Betting on the House
- Notes
- References
- Index