Soaring Eagle to stay open

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Fire Up, Chips! I mean, they will be fired up with those 104 fevers.

[matt1]

Same for Little River Casino in Manistee!!

[Matt]

Fire Up, Chips! I mean, they will be fired up with those 104 fevers.

Because that has happened with it being open for soooo many months, right?

[MWmetalhead]

Exploitation of Injuns? What a ridiculous comment. The employees are members of the general public.

Casino gambling at mega casinos such as this one generates tens of millions in net profits for the tribe annually.

[Ben Zonia]

Casinos help Native Americans, but what about casinos hurting compulsive gamblers? So it's OK for the Native Americans to exploit compulsive gamblers, as long as there are reparations to Native Americans involved? The whole thing was messed up from the beginning. We allowed US jobs to be outsourced, and then we tried to make up for it with casino jobs? And then there was some convoluted law that only allowed Native Americans to run casinos?

This is messed up on SO MANY LEVELS!

A large percentage of Native Americans don't want anything to do with reservations. They realize they are much happier just being Americans. Instead of exploiting things like Native American preferences, like they used to do with new radio allotment channel competing applications, they just want to be AMERICANS!

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Exploitation of Injuns? What a ridiculous comment. The employees are members of the general public.

Casino gambling at mega casinos such as this one generates tens of millions in net profits for the tribe annually.

As someone 1/4 Ojibwe, I’ll pretend you’re just ignorant to the fact that the casino money doesn’t get to the people it’s “intended” for.

See the red men rolling around in Rolls-Royces? Nope! They’re back in a trailer on the reservation drugged up, boozed up, and told to shut up. I taught a two semester college course on the current living conditions of Native Americans who people believe are being helped by casinos.

Want to see people living large on the casino? It’s the white men who said they would help “manage” the casinos. HA!!!

Oh give it a rest.

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Exploitation of Injuns? What a ridiculous comment. The employees are members of the general public.

Casino gambling at mega casinos such as this one generates tens of millions in net profits for the tribe annually.

As someone 1/4 Ojibwe, I’ll pretend you’re just ignorant to the fact that the casino money doesn’t get to the people it’s “intended” for.

See the red men rolling around in Rolls-Royces? Nope! They’re back in a trailer on the reservation drugged up, boozed up, and told to shut up. I taught a two semester college course on the current living conditions of Native Americans who people believe are being helped by casinos.

Want to see people living large on the casino? It’s the white men who said they would help “manage” the casinos. HA!!!

Oh give it a rest.

So, I'm supposed to be quiet about the 1830 Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson that gave the federal government the power to forcibly take my people's land and forcibly move my people from their rightful land?

I WILL NOT give any rest to the Native American people who have been marginalized much more than any black person has.

Your credibility broke a long time ago. Get lost.

[Deleted User 14896]

As someone 1/4 Ojibwe, I’ll pretend you’re just ignorant to the fact that the casino money doesn’t get to the people it’s “intended” for.

See the red men rolling around in Rolls-Royces? Nope! They’re back in a trailer on the reservation drugged up, boozed up, and told to shut up. I taught a two semester college course on the current living conditions of Native Americans who people believe are being helped by casinos.

Want to see people living large on the casino? It’s the white men who said they would help “manage” the casinos. HA!!!

Lovin' may go "off the reservation" with some of their postings (I had to say that sorry) but this post is spot on.
I have family works for the Ilitches. Several years back, when Papa Mike was still alive, the family was wanting to get involved in setting up a casino in New York state somewhere.
What Lovin' is saying pretty much aligns with what my family was saying.

[Chrocket87]

Exploitation of Injuns? What a ridiculous comment. The employees are members of the general public.

Casino gambling at mega casinos such as this one generates tens of millions in net profits for the tribe annually.

As someone 1/4 Ojibwe, I’ll pretend you’re just ignorant to the fact that the casino money doesn’t get to the people it’s “intended” for.

See the red men rolling around in Rolls-Royces? Nope! They’re back in a trailer on the reservation drugged up, boozed up, and told to shut up. I taught a two semester college course on the current living conditions of Native Americans who people believe are being helped by casinos.

Want to see people living large on the casino? It’s the white men who said they would help “manage” the casinos. HA!!!

Oh give it a rest.

So, I'm supposed to be quiet about the 1830 Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson that gave the federal government the power to forcibly take my people's land and forcibly move my people from their rightful land?

I WILL NOT give any rest to the Native American people who have been marginalized much more than any black person has.

Tell me, LL. What political party did this Andrew Jackson belong to?

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Exploitation of Injuns? What a ridiculous comment. The employees are members of the general public.

Casino gambling at mega casinos such as this one generates tens of millions in net profits for the tribe annually.

As someone 1/4 Ojibwe, I’ll pretend you’re just ignorant to the fact that the casino money doesn’t get to the people it’s “intended” for.

See the red men rolling around in Rolls-Royces? Nope! They’re back in a trailer on the reservation drugged up, boozed up, and told to shut up. I taught a two semester college course on the current living conditions of Native Americans who people believe are being helped by casinos.

Want to see people living large on the casino? It’s the white men who said they would help “manage” the casinos. HA!!!

Hate to agree with McLovin, but she's right.

[MWmetalhead]

I assumed the exploitation remark was in reference to the employees. I stand corrected and am not surprised the rank-and-file tribe members see little more than peanuts from casino income.

[Bryce]

Tribal members in Mt. Pleasant do just fine. Each adult member, that lives on the reservation, receives a payment bi weekly based on casino revenue. These payments reached a high of $118,000.00 for one year a while back. The amount has been lowered in recent years due to increasing competition from other tribal casinos.

The last I remember, each adult member was getting about $41,000.00 per year. So a husband and wife could be making 82,000.00 per year and never have to leave home.

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Tribal members in Mt. Pleasant do just fine. Each adult member, that lives on the reservation, receives a payment bi weekly based on casino revenue. These payments reached a high of $118,000.00 for one year a while back. The amount has been lowered in recent years due to increasing competition from other tribal casinos.

The last I remember, each adult member was getting about $41,000.00 per year. So a husband and wife could be making 82,000.00 per year and never have to leave home.

Doesn’t sound like peanuts to me...

[MWmetalhead]

Tribal members in Mt. Pleasant do just fine. Each adult member, that lives on the reservation, receives a payment bi weekly based on casino revenue. These payments reached a high of $118,000.00 for one year a while back. The amount has been lowered in recent years due to increasing competition from other tribal casinos.

The last I remember, each adult member was getting about $41,000.00 per year. So a husband and wife could be making 82,000.00 per year and never have to leave home.

Holy crap - that's an absolute gravy train!

I'm sure the Gun Lake Casino and Firekeepers have both eaten into their revenue quite significantly.

When Gun Lake's second expansion is completed next summer, gaming square footage will be on par with Mount Pleasant if not slightly larger. Already, the Gun Lake casino's gaming floor encompasses more than 150,000 square feet.

There's really no reason to drive from, say, the Grand Rapids area to gamble at Soaring Eagle anymore - unless one wishes to make a weekend getaway out of it or wishes to catch a summer concert. Driving to Mt. Pleasant from G.R. is a pain in the ass!

The massive expansion of Gun Lake has probably taken a lot of traffic away from Firekeepers, too. Folks in Kalamazoo now have two large casinos within a 25 minute drive. People in the G.R. area no longer have a reason to drive to Battle Creek.

[Bull Shannon]

\There's really no reason to drive from, say, the Grand Rapids area to gamble at Soaring Eagle anymore - unless one wishes to make a weekend getaway out of it or wishes to catch a summer concert. Driving to Mt. Pleasant from G.R. is a pain in the ass!

The massive expansion of Gun Lake has probably taken a lot of traffic away from Firekeepers, too. Folks in Kalamazoo now have two large casinos within a 25 minute drive. People in the G.R. area no longer have a reason to drive to Battle Creek.

I'd imagine that once the casino gets built and opens in Muskegon, that'll be that much more draw away from Soaring Eagle.