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Posted At : November 4, 2008 11:31 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Regardless of who comes out on top in today's presidential tussle, there's one group of Americans who can be assured of a brighter future -- Native Americans. The Bush II administration's record on tribal affairs has run the gamut from "dismal" to "abysmal." Any form of regime change, whether to McCain or Obama will be a de facto improvement.
In late 2000, one of George W. Bush's first mooted cabinet appointments would have placed Slade Gorton, an outspoken opponent of tribal sovereignty, atop the Department of the Interior (and thus the Bureau of Indian Affairs; as overheated as this rhetoric is, it gives you a fair idea of how Gorton is regarded in Indian Country). That was such an obvious give-the-finger-to-the-Indians gesture it didn't get anywhere, but the tone had been set.
Nothing was more emblematic of this new Washington mentality than the National Indian Gaming Commission's attempt to force tribes to unilaterally surrender literally decades of hard-won legal gains. The NIGC proposed to do this through a new and narrower definition of what constitutes "Class II" gaming. In one of the few positive developments to emerge from the recession, the NIGC felt compelled to set this Uncle Tom policy aside.
That also must have come as a relief to the numerous vendors who service the Class II market and who would undoubtedly have seen their sales decimated by the new NIGC rules. (At the time they were being hatched, NIGC officialdom made it amply clear to me that it was going to be their way or the highway, and the tribes had better be prepared to fall in line. Unfortunately, "the Google" has failed to yield the article I wrote about the Class II battle back when it was heating up in earnest.)
Come Nov. 5, with any luck, those new Class II regs and the current NIGC leadership will consigned to the Slade-heap of history.
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