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Only a Few Opposed to Online Casinos

The Indian gaming laws in the United States are one of the key areas that the tribes protect to the end. The Federal gaming laws that have really allowed tribal gaming to flourish are upheld year upon year within every US state. The introduction of a US online casino gambling industry, however, has the potential to alter the viability of all of these tribal gaming venues on reservations all over the US. The recent National Indian Gaming Association conference that took place earlier in the month had the gambling issue front and center in the debate. The Association had to decide whether or not to actively object to Barney Frank’s attempts to legalize offshore online casinos in the US market through regulations and taxation laws.

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians, from California, are particularly against the Association’s support for a US online casino gambling market because of they fear that internet gambling will eventually make land venues obsolete. Most other tribes, however, seem to take the position that the online casinos are one more opportunity to for the tribes to bring in needed revenue to keep jobs on the reservations and funding for schools and infrastructure. Although the Morongo tribe was really pushing hard for it’s proposal against Frank’s legislation, the overwhelming majority voted to support Frank and his intention to legalize internet gambling.

Frank has actually attempted to assuage the concerns of the handful of tribes that fear that US legalization of online casinos will negatively affect US tribes. Frank detailed in a letter that his bill is designed to only regulate and license internet gambling, not to alter in any way the compacts that US states have with US tribes.