My ranch in Cal. is next door to local Indian tribe members with their own ranches, grandfather is next door, his daughter , her husband, and their 2 daughers 2 doors down . Their tribe owns a casino on their reservation just 10 miles from my ranch. EACH tribe member receives almost $20,000 per month as their share in the casino gambling winnings. So they aren't exactly poor. I have many conversations with grandfather quite often when he is home and not traveling around the country attending powwows, ceremonies, and other Indian gatherings. So I get some first hand information . Let us just say the insident that I first posted is not an isolated event. Another rival small tribe just a few miles farther away, brought in bulldozers onto their reservation and clear stripped an area of several acres of every tree, blade of grass , and graded level hills over a stream . All this to get ready to build a casino that they were only in very preliminary negotiations to even build. No environmental impact report, permits, no nothing, they just did it. Each tribe considers themselves as an independent nation.
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