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The Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970s, however, the legacy of their generations rested on the shoulders of a single elderly woman, upon whose death the Pequots’ reservation would fall into government hands. Her grandson, Richard “Skip” Hayward, and other relatives responded to her pleas and kept alive the tribe and its land by coming to live on the reservation. Journalist Kim Isaac Eisler tells in riveting detail how Hayward and others skillfully manipulated laws, court decisions, and political connections to permit the Mashantucket Pequots to found … More >>
Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
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Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
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Without Reservation: The Making of America’s Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World’s Largest Casino
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In 1973, an old American Indian woman dies with nothing left of her tribe but a trailer and a two-hundred-acre reservation in the sleepy backyard of Ledyard, Connecticut. It seems to signal the end of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. But it is just the beginning. Over the course of the next three decades, the reservation grows to more than two thousand acres and becomes home to Foxwoods, the largest casino in the world, grossing more than $1 billion per year. The Pequots are reborn, immensely wealthy, and in possession of an enormous amount of political influence.How did it happen?In compelling detail, Without Reservation tells the stunning story of the rise of the richest tribe in American history.It begins with… More >>
Without Reservation: The Making of America’s Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World’s Largest Casino