"I call that a small percentage for all the risks we take and the work we do," Berman said. "Find me another business where a company puts up all the money, takes all the risks and has all the expertise and has an agreement to take about 30 percent of the profits for seven years and then go away."
All but a handful of the nearly 300 groups now seeking tribal recognition have come forward since Indian gambling was legalized by Congress in 1988. Although 53 are in California, most of the rest are east of the Mississippi, where long histories of white settlement and intermarriage have blurred tribal lineages that are still fresh in the West. There are seven in New York, three in New Jersey and 12 in Connecticut, while Virginia has 13, North Carolina has 12 and South Carolina, 10.
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