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The most detailed study to date of Indian gaming. The authors show how money, the media, and misapprehensions continue to cloud the efforts of First Nations to attain economic sovereignty and deftly explain the complicated and ambivalent relationship between tribes and the federal and state governments.

The most detailed study to date of Indian gaming. The authors show how money, the media, and misapprehensions continue to cloud the efforts of First Nations to attain economic sovereignty and deftly explain the complicated and ambivalent relationship between tribes and the federal and state governments. --<b>David Wilkins</b>, author of <i>American Indian Politics and the American Political System</i> Light and Rand succeed in making a comprehensive, balanced, and even entertaining analysis of the complex issues relating to gaming on Indian reservations. --<b>Alexander Tallchief Skibine</b>, author of <i>Your Rights as American Indians</i> Every state legislator, governor, and Congressman should read this book. --<b>LaDonna Harris</b>, President, Americans for Indian Opportunity

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Steven Andrew Light is associate professor of political science and public administration at the University of North Dakota. Kathryn R.L. Rand is associate professor of law at the University of North Dakota School of Law, where both are founders and codirectors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy.

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