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Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of Indians get nothing. Only half of all tribes--which have a total of 1.8 million members--have casinos. Some large tribes like the Navajo oppose gambling for religious reasons. Dozens of casinos do little better than break even because they are too small or located too far from population centers. The upshot is that a small number of gaming operations are making most of the money. Last year just 39 casinos generated $8.4 billion. In short, 13% of the casinos accounted for 66% of the take. All of which helps explain why Indian gaming...
...serenely attuned to the ebb and flow of natural forces. The culture of the U.S. Marine Corps is quite the opposite--gung-ho machismo in full cry. Yet in World War II, the latter had a desperate need for the former, specifically for an unbreakable code, based on the Navajo language, which could be openly spoken on the radio in combat. Windtalkers is a (heavily) fictionalized account of this coupling...
John Woo's film concentrates on a non-com, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage), a Marine ordered to guard one of the code talkers, Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach). Joe is to protect the Navajo if possible, to kill him if it looks as if Ben will be captured by the Japanese. Joe, however, is a bit shell-shocked, or as we now say, suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome. He has followed orders before, and, as a result, is the sole, death-haunted survivor of a unit he led into an ambush. He resolves not to become too close...
Windtalkers (June 14): In John Woo’s World War II drama about the Allies’ use of the Navajo language to convey messages, Nicolas Cage plays a Marine guarding a Navajo man involved in the operation. In recent summers, historical war movies like The Patriot and Saving Private Ryan have fared well at the box office, and Woo’s Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II have met with similar success. Whether Windtalkers will succeed is another matter; it appears to be a more serious endeavor than the stylish, bullet-clogged popcorn flicks Woo has concentrated...
...done several locum tenens stints through CompHealth. Now he and his wife Frances crisscross the country in a Dodge pickup, towing their one-bedroom, fifth-wheel camper. This summer they camped in the Painted Desert, 70 miles east of the Grand Canyon, while Huneke worked in a government-run Navajo health clinic in Tuba City, Ariz. "It's more challenging," he says, "but really it's more interesting...