However, even tribes that are making relatively little money have often experienced significant socioeconomic impacts, demonstrating that a small number of dollars can make a large difference in reservation life. The bulk of Indian gaming revenues and profits go to tribes, not to non-Indian management companies. Tribes have used gaming revenues for a variety of purposes, including economic diversification, social programs, education, and reducing tribal dependence on federal dollars. Indian gaming contributes significantly to regional economies, with non-Indians benefitting, for example, from the creation of jobs, new business opportunities, and reduced welfare expenditures. Indian gaming regulation is as comprehensive in scope as that of other jurisdictions noted for their regulatory practices.
Tribal casinos operate with substantial tribal and federal oversight.
While Indian gaming cannot address all of the problems of contemporary reservation life, the benefits to both Indians and non-Indians far outweigh its costs. Given the special federal interest in protecting the welfare of Native Americans, see California v. It does not follow, however, that those differences also justify abridging non-Indians' freedom of speech more severely than the freedom of their tribal competitors. For the power to prohibit or to regulate particular conduct does not necessarily include the power to prohibit or regulate speech about the conduct. It is well settled that the First Amendment mandates closer scrutiny of government restrictions on speech than of it regulation of commerce alone.