Hillman avenger wrote:I believe the reason that native Indians are involved in casinos (and, strangely, fireworks) is that in some states where casinos are not legal, they hired legal bods who found that under the terms on which they moved to their reservations they were entitled to an exception to those laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_gaming
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/n ... ny-tribes/
So they were not encouraged to do this, but overcame opposition.
They're a load of complete piss heads as well you know and personally I can't ever forget what they tried to do to John Wayne, but you're quite right that no one encouraged it except maybe the mob.