The May 5 Forum had an article about how the leaders of the city of Shakopee, Minn., were concerned that the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community had used more than $100 million of casino profits to buy land once owned by their ancestors.
Greed was a primary factor when explaining "How the West Was Won." This land was taken by the point of a gun from the Sioux in the mid-1800s.
Greed in trying to get rich by gambling at the Indian casinos is going to be the primary factor in providing the Sioux and other tribes the means to re-win back those lands that once were theirs.
