Description
The course will discuss the federal, state, and tribal laws and regulations federally recognized Tribes must
follow to offer Indian Gaming as a form of economic development through tribally-owned gaming
operations. The course will discuss Federal Indian Law and policy, Indian Gaming history and origins,
state and tribal agreements/relations as they pertain to the gaming operations, and tribal regulatory
responsibilities over their gaming facilities. The course will also discuss the roles and responsibilities of
Tribes as a government in this capacity, as well as on-going efforts to secure tribal rights to self-govern,
and self-determination. The course draws from comparative sources with a focus on how different tribes
operate their gaming operations, including the dynamic between different state laws across the nation and
how they interact with the many different tribes operating gaming facilities within them.