A History of Gaming for California Tribes: A Struggle for Gaming Compacts

By Bonnie Chafe McNunn

This book takes you through the struggle of California's Native Americans to protect their sovereign right to tribal government gaming. Included is a brief early history on how California authorized bounty's to be paid for killing all Indians by its First Governor. It explains the sovereign rights of tribes not only in California, but in all of the States.Read about the efforts of the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down tribal government gaming in the 1980's; how the 1988 Cabazon Decision clarified tribal gaming rights and led Congress to write the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.Follows the steps of the tribes as they struggled through the perilous act of negotiating a Tribal-State Compact with California; how demands were made to diminish their sovereignty; and how they worked together to pass a State Constitutional Amendment.A must read for anyone who wants to understand tribal sovereignty and the struggles tribes have had to endure to maintain their rights to do gaming on their lands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530367395
• ISBN13: 9781530367399
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 6.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"