Pettyjohn Lecture: More than Casinos: Concepts of Wealth and Tradition in Indian Gaming
Free!
About the event
Speaker: Dr. Laurie Arnold, Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederate Tribes & Gonzaga University
Description: Today’s casinos serve as gathering places for native American communities just as sites of games and competitions did for our ancestors. Dr. Arnold will explain how contemporary Indian gaming connects to cultural traditions of spirituality and gambling that reinforce tribal political sovereignty in the present.