CSI: NY uses a different variation on this plot.

In the CSI: Miami episode 'Bloodline', a gaming official accused of trying to dip into Indian casino profits is found scalped to death.

On Big Love Bill Henrickson decides to branch out from the hardware business, and partners with a Native American tribe to build a 'family' casino.

To accomplish this he makes a Deal with the Devil with Kai Proctor, the local crimelord. The tribe's elderly chief wants to secure his tribe's future by replacing the old building with a new modern casino and hotel.

On Banshee the local Indian tribe owns a casino.

In a bit of Truth in Television, this was inspired by the real story of the 1830 version of London Bridge being disassembled and sold to a real estate developer in Arizona, who made it a centerpiece of a development along the Colorado River on the border with California.

The 1992 revival series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet had a plot involving our heroes demolishing a historic bridge in England, and rebuilding it across a canyon in Arizona to provide access to a Native American casino.

Lately, the governments of smaller tribes have been disenrolling members so that casino profits are spread among fewer people.

The downside is that impoverished residents can be attracted to addictive gambling, and there is no guarantee that the casinos will enrich anyone but the tribal councils. Since reservations are typically among the poorest and least developed parts of the nation, the upside is that giving them a monopoly on gaming is a way to attract tourists and jump-start reservation economies.

Itasca County in 1976 and ended with the creation of the National Indian Gaming Commission in 1988 established that Native American tribal reservations who set up a 'tribal-state compact' with their state are exempt from any state gambling bans or regulation (though they are still subject to federal regulation). In the United States, a series of legal decisions that began with Bryan v. Wherever there's an Indian reservation in Movieland, there has to be a casino.

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