So what do some of the board members want here...take away Indian Casinos, racing tracks, etc., and put tribal members back on welfare and full time commercial fishing?

Growing up in Washington in the 70's the attitude was "lazy indians why don't they get of welfare and get a job". So now in the 2002 the attitude is "damn those native americans for having jobs and being successful?"

I'm a white guy who worked for the Tulalips for 3 years. It's true you really don't know what the hell your talking about until you get to see up front the strugles of reservation life.

Just remember the Tulalip Bubble is a sportfishery that is just given to non -tribal sport fishermen. There is no gain for the Tribe here financially except to the folks who own the marina in Tulalip Bay.

The Tulalip have spent millions of dollars improving the upper drainages of the Stilly and Snohomish river systems. This was not part of required mitigation required to erase a "wrong doing" in the past. This was giving up big money to help take out salmon blocking culverts.

I'll be taking my $100 to the craps table at Tulalip this weekend and I know some of the money if I am to lose it, will help salmon recovery efforts. How many non-tribal mini casinos in WA are contributing to restore salmon and their habitat...."0"!

My .02 cents.

BD