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...Okay. So, how has life on the rez changed...
...casino's Winter Entrance, adjacent, strangely, to the Winter Parking Lot, is by far the grandest of the casino's four inputs (one for each of the seasons). Escalators and mammoth staircases sweep players down onto the casino's floor. The casino, cut into a hill on the rez, the familiar name for the reservation, which, ironically, I am now technically on, aims to recreate within what has been paved over without. A canopy of faux-foliage presides over the action on the casino floor. Animatronic gray wolves greet visitors to the Wolf Den, a small performing arts venue...
...rez anyway...
...complex. Designed by New York's Paul Jacob Parkers, who reveals himself here to be the poor man's Frank Gehry, the building makes little attempt externally to interact with its environment, strange given the emphasis one would expect to be placed on such a dialogue here on the rez. Things get both better and worse on the museum's inside. A spiral ramp draws the visitor artfully from the large atrium that dominates the entrance level of the structure down into the main exhibition spaces. Here, however, the museum's displays and those who view them almost manage...
...current way of life on the reservation. According to the museum's very first display, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is a "newly-revitalized community--one that has been realized by years of planning, hoping and hard work." Certainly, the will of the Mashantucket Pequots to revitalize the rez is undeniable. But what gets short shrift here is the largely contingent nature of this revitalization, what with it being based upon the gaming industry...