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Category: 17.5. Efforts to obtain federal recognition
QUIL001. Quillen,
Martha. “Lumbee recognition could spawn casino push.”
News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sunday, May 16, 2004.
5 photographs.
Publication type: Newspaper article
This article looks at the question
of casino gambling coming to Robeson County by examining several
factors: the present status of the bills for true federal
recognition of the Lumbee Tribe; the tribal chairperson’s
statement in the Senate committee hearing that Lumbee ancestors
weren’t thinking about gambling when they first asked
for federal recognition 115 years ago, and tribal leaders
aren’t now thinking about it in their current federal
recognition efforts; the realities of Robeson County’s
economic situation; and various takes on the amount of “business”
a casino in Robeson County would draw and what contributions
it might actually make to the economy.
Here are some points made in
the article:
- More than 40,000
cars travel through Robeson County daily on I-95, which extends
from Canada or Maine to Miami.
- John W. Kindt, a University of Illinois
professor who studies gambling, believes that a casino in
Robeson County would see more business than the North Carolina
Cherokees’ casino. He warns, however, that there are
potential drawbacks: regular customers would be people within
35-100 miles of the county, not local residents; 2% of customers
would become addicted; once construction of the casino was
completed, few jobs would be created because video machines
don’t require much staffing; and the casino company,
by law, can keep up to 40% of the profits.
- Greg S. Bryant, a developer, bought a 100-acre
tract of land on N.C. 711 at the edge of Pembroke, then sold
it to the Lumbee Tribe. He envisions the property as a location
for a casino.
Additional Subjects:
Casino gambling
This annotation was written on June
30, 2004.
Home Page URL: lumbeebibliography.net
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