Product Description: Each title explores a specific issue by placing fourteen to sixteen carefully edited, accessible articles from a wide range of sources in a unique pro/con format, while useful charts, graphs, color photos, and cartoons illustrate each article...read more

Product Description: With more than 400 tribal casinos in 30 states generating more than $23 billion in annual revenue, Indian gaming is a rapidly growing industry that is here to stay. Subject to a complex federal regulatory scheme and myriad state and tribal regulations, Indian gaming also is a growing area of legal practice...read more

Essays cover a variety of viewpoints on the subject of Native Americans and gambling, including whether casino gambling has benefited or harmed Native Americans, and whether gambling opponents are guilty of bias.

Product Description: Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today. After presenting the social and psychological factors that have contributed to Native American addictions and the patterns of behavior and circumstances associated with this complex and widespread problem, French discusses the treatment, intervention, and prevention issues facing therapists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)