[martin_fierro]

I, as chief of the Kookielakka Tribe, cordially invite you to join.

Then we'll open a casino.

[NormsRevenge]

Only if I get to hire the beverage maids. ;-)

[Eska]

While I'm waitin on the steelers to come on; I'll say this. Here in alaska, I have heard village grandmothers (who are the political/moral power in most villages) tell everyone to their face that there would never be any gambling anywhere near their village as long as they were alive. I heard one say that gambling hurt natives & whites alike and casinos were completly immoral; the young men of the village were as meek as church mice too.

Once you have just a bit of native blood in your veins; you are native. What really makes you one way or another is how you were raised. Have seen alot of 3/4 white natives that were raised native because their white relatives wouldn't accept them; and saw themselves as true natives.

I wonder how much some of these lower 48 natives actually follow the native way, or are they just opportunists? If I was ask one of the natives where I live what he thought about those lower 48 natives and casinos; he'd probably tell me that those people down there just need money more than us up here, a kick in the face to them