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Another Stereotype of the Month entry:
BY PATT MORRISON
JUNE 23, 2004 12 AM PT
Any California kid who plays cowboys and Indians nowadays had better put the cowboys in black hats and the Indians in green eyeshades.
Indians, at least the ones with the land and leverage to set up casinos, are raking in great honking piles of money, playing Enron with their political checkbooks, coining new millionaires every month -- in short, acting like the all-American capitalists we always said we wanted them to become.
All the gold coaxed out of the California earth in the Gold Rush amounted to maybe $10 billion, which is something close to two years’ take in Indian gambling. Greed stole their patrimony then; greed may give it back to them now. Sweet, isn’t it? Sa-weet.
Rob's comment
This whole portrayal of greedy Native Americans is obviously stereotypical.
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