Sentence examples for wealthy tribes from inspiring English sources

But dozens of smaller or less wealthy tribes and nations are not so lucky.

But some smaller tribes, who operate more modest casinos or who do not have them at all, are concerned that the actions of a few wealthy tribes are hurting all American Indians in California.

It now operates one of the world's largest casinos, the Mohegan Sun, and is one of the nation's wealthiest tribes.

Others, including Arizona and California, have worked out ways of extracting more taxes from the wealthiest tribes.One way that the casino-owning tribes have tried to head off criticism, which often comes from other Indians, is to accentuate their Indianness.

For the last two months, Mr. Allen, who is chairman of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, has been visiting some of the wealthier tribes around the country, trying to raise money to fight Mr. Gorton.

They come from remote outposts like La Push, on the Pacific Ocean, and from wealthier tribes whose casinos rise above Interstate 5 north of Seattle, all in a deliberate effort to recapture cultural, linguistic and intertribal connections they said they had nearly lost as Indian ways of life were overwhelmed, first by European settlers and more recently by substance abuse and suicide.

On termination, the Menominee, which was one of the wealthiest tribes prior to termination, became one of the poorest.

Abramoff was employed by wealthy Native American tribes who ran profitable reservation casinos.

The part where Peter pretends to be an Indian to get the family car back was inspired by real-life instances of people who were "1/64th" Native American receiving money from wealthy casino tribes.

Some talk about looking to wealthier upstate tribes for support.

The board recently approved a deal with a wealthy local tribe, the Pechanga Band of the Luiseño Indians.