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...past month, Native American reservations in California, including the Barona, Viejas and Sycuan bands in San Diego County, have been required to remove video gaming machines, the high-profile and high-profit instrument of their gambling revolution. As reported in the August 9 San Diego Union-Tribune, the removal comes as the first painful step in a compromise arranged by U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin, who acknowledges that only Governor Pete C. Wilson has the power to negotiate an all-encompassing agreement that can guarantee a role for Indian gaming in California's future...
...regulatory laws-including the California provision that limits bingo jackpots to a measly $250. Thus Indian Village Bingo offers an average total nightly payoff of $20,000 and a jackpot that last week reached $48,000. Thirty-five of the Morongo Indians have been provided jobs; near by, the Barona tribe's bingo game has earned $300,000 in nine months...
While the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington might not have chosen bingo as a means to the native American dream, the Reagan Administration has reacted with benign neglect. Indeed, the enthusiasts among Indians sound like Reagan Republicans. "If anyone here is not working today," claims Barona Tribal Chairman Joe Welch, "it's because they don't want...
Some opposition is simply competitive. In Maine, says Penobscot Tribal Governor Timothy Love, state officials "looked the other way until the Elks, the V.F.W and the Knights of Columbus all started ranting and raving about us." Not far from the Barona reservation in California, Lemon Grove V.F.W. Officer W. Happy Blake says his bingo take has withered by 75%. "I'm still holding on, but just barely...
...Allen Gifford), the owner of the band's recording studio, who injects the struggles of two decades past, offering a suitably Messianic and inspirational figure to the jaded and cynical boys of the eighties. Brooks Whitehouse as Frank Mills, the leader of the band, and Dede Schmeiser as Donna Barona, his groupie girlfriend, on the other hand, fall a little short: Whitehouse a little stiff and stylized in his portrayal of an already implausible character, Schmeiser too broad and too brassy...