This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchewaterri Anderson. He's in White

Selfers Springs, Montana, the Lucky Fellow. His new book is renewing indigenous

economies with this colleague, Kathy Rite. This book has practical

recommendations about how to take advantage of the fact that the people living

on Native American reservations have the potential of great prosperity. One

example that comes to mind these last 40 or 50 years is gaming. It started in

I Learn From Terry in the United Indian Nation in 1975. It comes to a Supreme

Court decision in 1987 that endorses the idea of gaming authorities without

the state's interference. We get an Indian gaming authority law from Congress in

1988. This is an example of what can be done but it's not it's it's not to

limit it. Terry, it does the gaming bend rules a little bit or is it more of

the same ward ship? How is it conducted? Well, it started out to be a way of

try way that tribes could carve out an area of sovereignty for themselves. They

could enter into agreements with the state to have gaming on the

reservation and these were states that had little gaming that we see all over

the place today. But when this all started, Nevada was where he had to go if you

wanted to gamble. And tribes said, well, what if we just open one little

enclave for gambling outside of Nevada and we have a monopoly on that? The

state said, okay, we'll agree. We'll give you that sovereignty to have your own

casinos. And tribes that were in populated areas could do very well. You

mentioned the Uniteite talked earlier about the Kishada. You look up and down

the interstate corridor from Seattle to to California and the tribes that are

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