Cabazon Band of Mission Indians was a case that barred states from interfering with tribal gaming. These tribes were very fortune to have decisive, courageous and politically skilled leaders; but they also succeed because of the location and their arid lands were seen as unsuited for agricultural and devoid of natural resources but the locations of their casinos are within easy driving range of ten million customers but not to close that those living in Southern California find the games they offer threatening to local community values or competing for entertainment dollars that locals would spend. Although it was not easy and was troubled by the course of law through an terrain of broken promises, false treaties, unenforced Supreme Court decisions and harsh administrative rulings. It took a Supreme Court decision to overturn the state 's action, confirm the autonomy of tribes, and pave the way for other tribes to operate gaming centers throughout …show more content…
Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987) would open doors for the Indians and allow for them to lift themselves from generations of impoverishment. Cabazon is also important politically because it figured prominently in Congress 's enactment one year later of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 referred as IGRA which, required that tribes must enter into compacts with states governments before they engage in Class III gaming. This case decision paved the way for other tribes to operate gaming centers. Tribal gaming has swept the nation in 2009, over $27 billion were wagered in 425 tribal casinos and it has become Indian country 's most effective economic-development tool and the slot machine has become their "new buffalo" referred as a single source capable of fulfilling all their needs, including jobs, schools, social services, and