...Maureen T. Schwarz Shortly after Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988, casinos started appearing on reservations across North America and generating billions of dollars for some formerly destitute tribes. Despite general enthusiasm about gaming in Indian country...

..., and narratives of the exotic and the authentic, in two major tribally owned and operated sites of representation on the Mashantucket Reservation: the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and the Foxwoods Resort Casino. Imagining the Nation with House Odds...

...- counter. Obviously, the attraction of Indian-owned casinos outstrips by far that of cultural institutions. The Mashantucket Pequot provide the clearest example of this (see Bodinger de Uriarte, this issue; McMullen in press...

... of ethnographic research on Native American small-business owners. More importantly, this monograph responds to prior scholarship that has overwhelmingly associated economic sovereignty and self-determination with large operations overseen by tribal governments, especially casino gaming. Lewis persuasively argues...

... paleontological and archaeological objects and artifacts rather than living cultures. Casinos and Cultures After the mids, internal tourism was boosted by the opening of casi- nos inside some of the homelands...

... anti-­Indian racism during recognition processes. The Connecticut Effect— the label attributed to other nonrecognized communities after the Pequot Nation obtained federal recognition and launched the Foxwoods Resort Casino—is a fine example of how casino success has become a “trope for 584...

.... The Connecticut Effect— the label attributed to other nonrecognized communities after the Pequot Nation obtained federal recognition and launched the Foxwoods Resort Casino—is a fine example of how casino success has become a “trope for ...

... that they are long-­standing tribal groups to economic competition, both for federal dollars and for casino markets. He also believes that the Five Tribes are especially impacted by efforts of both individuals and Indian communities to be recognized as Indian. They have led the modern efforts to control...

... villages, and specialized sites for cultural performance, and, also, casinos. The first three modalities of representation have long histories in Europe and the United States. The last is a recently emergent nexus that foregrounds...

... fuzzy. Trafzer links efforts to reclaim the oasis in 1936 to the establishment of the Tortoise Rock Casino in 2014. Between those bookends, we learn a great deal about the tribe’s cultural preservation efforts in the 1990s, but almost nothing about the preceding sixty years. These are important stories...

... key elements of powwows in the era of high-stakes “casino powwows” that have emerged since the 1990s. Scales looks in particular at the emergent aesthetic prac- tices, social organization, and value structure of contemporary powwow singing groups, showing how the linkage of powwow singing...

... of indigenous identities in differently oriented tourist spaces. Like Schutte, one of his sites of analysis is a resort casino, largely economic in orientation, and the second is the more educationally oriented Mashantucket Pequot Museum...

... experience. She focuses on the Cherokee Historical Association, founded in 1946, and its products—the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the historical drama Unto These Hills, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming...

... experience. She focuses on the Cherokee Historical Association, founded in 1946, and its products—the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the historical drama Unto These Hills, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming...

... experience. She focuses on the Cherokee Historical Association, founded in 1946, and its products—the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the historical drama Unto These Hills, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming...

... activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming, and “chiefing,” or dressing in feathers to pose for pictures. Beard-Moose argues that in participating Ethnohistory 57:2 (Spring 2010) Copyright 2010 by American Society for Ethnohistory 322...

... experience. She focuses on the Cherokee Historical Association, founded in 1946, and its products—the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the historical drama Unto These Hills, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming...

..., and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming, and “chiefing,” or dressing in feathers to pose for pictures. Beard-Moose argues that in participating Ethnohistory 57:2 (Spring 2010) Copyright 2010 by American Society...

..., and its products—the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the historical drama Unto These Hills, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian—taking into account associated activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming, and “chiefing,” or dressing in feathers to pose for pictures. Beard-Moose...

... activi- ties including craft production, casino gaming, and “chiefing,” or dressing in feathers to pose for pictures. Beard-Moose argues that in participating Ethnohistory 57:2 (Spring 2010) Copyright 2010 by American Society for Ethnohistory 322...