Revenge of the Pequots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revenge of the Pequots write by Kim Isaac Eisler. This book was released on 2001-03-25. Revenge of the Pequots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the mid-1970s, the Mashantucket Pequot tribe had only one member -- an elderly woman who pleaded with her grandson to come live on the impoverished reservation and save it from falling into government hands upon her death. In Revenge of the Pequots, journalist Kim Isaac Eisler tells the remarkable story of how Richard "Skip" Hayward, then an unemployed ship-worker, granted his grandmother's dying wish, revived the moribund clan, and transformed the Pequots into the richest and most influential band of Native Americans in history. Established in 1992, Foxwoods Resort and Casino is the world's most profitable gambling establishment, grossing over $1 billion a year at its sprawling complex in the backwoods of Ledyard, Connecticut. Making use of arcane laws and court decisions never intended to benefit Native Americans as they have, Hayward brilliantly laid the groundwork for this staggering economic empire. In a story rife with drama, he challenged a succession of Connecticut governors and such worthy adversaries as casino moguls Steve Wynn and Donald Trump, while forming alliances with Malaysian industrialist Lim Goh Tong, renegade Seminole chief James Billie, and President Bill Clinton. As a result of Hayward's strategizing, for one of the few times in history -- and in a truly ironic reversal -- the bizarre legal structure governing Native Americans actually worked to their advantage in a mainstream enterprise. But the Pequots' meteoric rise to fortune has left many wondering: Is this turnabout fair play? In this riveting rags-to-riches tale, Eisler deftly explores the wide-ranging issues that have framed the great Native American casino debate and the ramifications of the Native American casino boom in a nation still uneasy about its roots.
Revenge of the Pequots
Revenge of the Pequots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revenge of the Pequots write by Kim Isaac Eisler. This book was released on 2001. Revenge of the Pequots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ultimate American tale is the rags-to-riches story of Connecticut's Pequot Indians, who faced extinction just 15 years ago and subsequently rose to build the lucrative Foxwoods Resort and Casino. Photos.
The Networked Wilderness
The Networked Wilderness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Networked Wilderness write by Matt Cohen. This book was released on 2010. The Networked Wilderness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now that academic consensus has turned away from the dichotomy between the literate culture of the Puritans and the oral culture of Native Americans, Cohen (English, U. of Texas-Austin) looks at the methodological, disciplinary, legal, political, and aesthetic implications for studying communication during the early period of English colonies in North America. He looks at native audience, good noise from New England, forests of gestures, and multimedia combat and the Pequot War.
Ideology and Rhetoric
Ideology and Rhetoric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology and Rhetoric write by Bożenna Chylińska. This book was released on 2009-01-14. Ideology and Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discovery of America and its further development into a modern state and a nation are the clear instance of how ideology and rhetoric are entwined and how they can encompass widely disparate viewpoints. The essays collected in this book address the topical issues of modern American Studies: cultural difference and otherness; gender, race and ethnicity; class and power. They represent new texts and contexts, approached through the revision, reevaluation, and reconfiguration of cannons, thus accommodating the expectations of the heterodox audience. Femininity reconsidered; an ideology of passing away in contemporary world of technical development; race captured within the framework of identity and gender; the rhetoric of blackness approached through racial exploitation; American conquest ideology revealed in a mission of Manifest Destiny; the 20th century assimilation rhetoric in the relations between Native Americans and the US federal government; the conservative ideology and apologetic rhetoric of the Antebellum South; the critique of the 21st century American legal system; the evolution of the presidential rhetoric which today addresses a large heterogeneous audience – all these topics impose a transnational interpretation of American culture which developed as a result of the cross-cultural transformation of European culture/cultures, moulded on American soil to finally become a unique reformulation of the very idea of America itself.
Gaming
Gaming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaming write by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ). This book was released on 2005. Gaming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
