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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the ethical issues in research related to a study of casino gambling in the Ojibwa tribe of MN. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the student have been included in the bibliography. The research topic for this study is: What are the positive and negative psychological and social impacts of casino
gambling for the Ojibwas of Red Lake, MN? Specifically, the Native American communities of this region have a monopoly on the gambling industry, and so the social and psychological
impacts of casino gambling relate directly to the substantive changes that have occurred for the Native Americans (the Ojibwas) in the midst of major social changes (Glago, 1994; Stuart, 1990).
Since the late 1980s, changes to legislative limits on casino gambling authorized Native American nations to build casinos across the country. Some 31 states were allowed to
build casinos on Native American lands, creating an impetus for economic change in regions struggling with socioeconomic decline (Wilson Quarterly, 1998). Though some have viewed the building of casinos
on Native American lands a boon for reservation economies, others have argued that casinos have lead to compulsive gambling in populations least able to bear the impacts of gambling and
others have suggested that gambling has lead to an increase in alcoholism, drug abuse, street crime and welfare dependency (Wilson Quarterly, 1998). The following are some of the central
questions that will be addressed in the scope of this study: * What are the social impacts of the Native American monopoly on casino gambling in Red Lake, MN?
* What are the psychological impacts of the Native American monopoly on casino gambling in Red Lake, MN? * What are the socioeconomic impacts of casino gambling on the
region? * Have major changes occurred in this community since gaming laws changed in the 1980s? The methodology for this research study is phenomenological and integrates multiple
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