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Native Americans

Sep. 17, 1999

The Trail of Tears Ends in California at a Slot Machine

By Peter Schrag Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever, has it been the monstrous fig leaf for political venality that it was in last week's sellout to Indian gambling casinos.

        By Peter Schrag
        
        Guilt serves all sorts of purposes in American politics (some of them entirely admirable) but rarely, if ever, has it been the monstrous fig leaf for political venality that it was in last week's sellout to Indian gambling casinos.
        By now the outlines of t...

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