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Where ethnic identity remains strong and is fiercely perpetuated, the logic of the blood feud reigns, and it is infinitely harder to forgive or even think of forgiving. An old wrong, a kind of primal atrocity, sits in the tribal memory like a totem, an eternal reminder. For a man to forgive his enemy would mean betraying his father and grandfather and great-grandfather, dishonoring the sacrifices that they had made. It is treason to forgive, inexcusable to forget. So, between Armenians and Turks, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, between South Moluccans and Dutch, between Lebanese Maronites and Druze, between...
...profits from the 65,000 players who have come since 1982 to their parlor in a converted textile mill. In Florida, where the Seminoles began bingo in 1979, the 1,800-member tribe this year raked in $4.2 million from three joints. "We used to make trinkets," says Tribal Chairman James Billie, a former professional alligator wrestler, "but we didn't really have the marketing skills to make a go of that...
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...
...prudence. The 185 Shakopee Sioux around Prior Lake, Minn., opened a 1,300-seat place just over a year ago. Already the bingo profits, $2.5 million, have paid for new medical clinics, a day care program and an 85-foot-high tepee-cum-cultural center. The Seminoles have endowed tribal scholarships, set up a credit union and amassed a large cattle herd. There is some populist pressure for cash distribution. The Baronas early this month gave members of the tribe $1,000 apiece from bingo earnings; the money might have been better spent on repairing their reservation water system...
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...