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Title Wampum : how Indian tribes, the Mafia, and an inattentive congress invented Indian gaming and created a $28 billion gambling empire / Donald Craig Mitchell.
Author Mitchell, Donald, 1947 January 23- author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : The Overlook Press, [2016]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  338.477 MIT    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-360) and index.
Summary Looks at the the rise of Indian gaming in the United States, from the early high-stakes bingo halls and their association with the Mafia, through the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that unintentionally allowed the creation of the Las Vegas style casinos of today.
Subject Gambling on Indian reservations -- History.
Off-reservation casinos -- History.
ISBN 1468309935 (hardcover) : $29.95
9781468309935 (hardcover)
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