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New Jersey Casino Control Commission, September 2, 1997), 123–76. This document provides much information on Kerzner’s casino dealings in South Africa.
    47. “Let the Games Begin,”
International Gaming and Wagering Business
, June 1998, S6. This restriction, however, did not mean that the new South Africa had turned away from gambling; on the contrary, by 1998 the country was awash in it, with the government granting licenses for forty new large casinos in that year alone. This country of 60 million people already had many casinos, plus a national lottery, slot operations, and many horse racing tracks.
    48.
NYT
, March 24, 1994, B4; and
NYT
, August 5, 1996, B1–2, and December 11, 1996, B1.
    49. “Report of the Division of Gaming Enforcement …,” 25–26, 45–46.
    50. Quoted in Jonathan Rabinowitz, “South African Gets Approval for a Casino in New Jersey,”
NYT
, October 23, 1997, B7.
    51. Daniel Boorstin,
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
(New York: Vintage, 1987), pp. 91–93.
    52. Lee Lescaze, “Strangers in Strange Lands” (book review),
WSJ
, March 27, 1996, A20.
    53. Wallace Stegner,
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
(New York: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 81.
    54. “Preserving A Heritage Via Beds and Barns,”
NYT
, August 13, 1998, D1.
    55. Indeed, most residents began to move out after 1970, when Las Vegas growth hit new levels; they sought to insulate themselves within a “culture of privacy”; and even as they depended on Las Vegas for their livelihoods, they turned their backs on it as a “community” worthy of their respect or care, looked with contempt on those who remained, and refused to pay taxes to maintain the schools, the roads, or the city infrastructure. See John Findlay,
People of Chance
, pp. 173–208.
    56. Geoff Schumacher, “Urban Decay,”
Las Vegas Sun
, May 24, 1997, p. 143.
    57. Hunter Thompson,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(New York: Popular Library Edition, 1971).
    58. Author’s visit, May 23–24, 1997.
    59. Author’s visit, May 1997; and “Steve Wynn’s Big Gamble,”
The American Way
, November 15, 1997.
    60. Author’s visit, May 1997; and on the casinos’ change in strategies (once they became publicly traded corporations), see Johnston,
Temples of Chance
, pp. 9–22; and John Mohawk, Review of
Temples of Chance, Daybreak
(spring 1993), 22.
    61. Author’s visit, November 24, 1995.
    62. “Viejas Casino and Turf Club,”
Indian Gaming
, September 1996, 4; “Economics Brings Rebirth for Native Americans,”
Indian Gaming
, April 1997, 4; and
BusinessWeek
, September 9, 1996, 47.
    63. Herbert Muschamp, “A Primal Phantasmogoria,”
NYT
, October 21, 1996, C13, C15.
    64. John Mohawk, “Last Words,”
Akwe-kon’s Journal of Indigenous Issues
(summer 1995), 64.
    65. Tim Giago, “Notes from Indian Country,”
Indian Country Today
, December 2–9, 1996, A4.
    66. Letter to editor,
Indian Country Today
, August 10, 1995, A4. Doug George-Kenatiio, Mohawk leader and journalist, has repeatedly argued in his columns in the
Syracuse Herald American
that “commercial gambling runs contrary to the ancestral Iroquois laws,” and its spread has “eclipsed [our] cultural survival and the effort to retain language and our indigenous spiritual rituals. Some [Indians] no longer cite our longstanding relationship with the earth or the valiant fight for religious freedom.… Our Iroquoian ‘seventh generation’ commandment has been swept aside by an entirely American attitude of ‘get while the getting is good.’ We never were a material people [and] we must return to the circle of our clans and families”
(Syracuse Herald American
, February 19, 1995, and May 14, 1995).
    67. Transcript of interview, quoted in Robert W. Venables, ed.,
The Six Nations of New York: The 1892 United States Extra Census Bulletin
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), p. xix.
    68. For an excellent account of this recent development and of the problems resulting