The Puyallup tribe makes for an easy target with the riches they are now getting from gaming. But they are by far the exception, not the rule. Ya think they all have easy lives & free money, go to most any reservation across this country. Average life spans a decade or more less than average U.S., child birth mortality rates that rival the poorest of third world countries, rampant diabetes etc. My son's a fireman in AK in a mostly native communtity. Up there the fireman call winter the "killing season" because they have to handle so many native suicides, mostly teenagers over the despair & hopelessness & it's just a small city. I'm no differnt than the rest of ya, I get upset about there special fishing rights too, but they wer egranted treaty rights & do you really think you would rather be in any of there shoes? Get past the headlines of just a few isolated tribes that are doing great.