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Spreading the Wealth

Indian gaming in the United States is a very interesting subsector of the gambling industry – the tribal gambling casinos can prove very lucrative for the tribes, and some even pay out per capita payments to the individual tribe members annually. There is no definite indication of how much some of the wealthier tribes pay out to individuals, but some land gambling has definitely revolutionized the way that tribes in the United States and Canada are able to fund services on the reservations as well as employ members of the tribe and the local community. Online casino gambling is illegal in the U.S. right now, so tribes in the U.S. solely operate in the land gambling industry.

That is not the case though across the board – Mohawk tribe in Canada licenses online casinos for the international gambling industry – the Kahnawake Gaming Commission operates on Mohawk tribal lands. As for U.S. tribal gambling, the Foxwoods land casino is not only the largest land gambling casino and resort facility, but it is also amazingly successful and generates serious income for the reservation and for tribe members.

Tribal gambling is usually also very lucrative for the state governments as well – the Connecticut government receives roughly $200 million a year in tax revenue from the Mashantucket Pequot, which operates the Foxwoods casino. The tribe pays the government 25 percent of revenue. Tribes in most other states similarly pay taxes to the state governments even though tribes are sovereign nations within the state. Right now, with the current online casino gambling bans, there are no U.S. Indian tribes involved in the internet gambling industry, but if the U.S. passes new legislation, there is no telling what might develop.