We have developed a RV park next to the Prairie Knight Casino. Hotels and motels accommodations are located in Mobridge, South Dakota, and Bismark, North Dakota, the two largest towns nearest the reservation. Indian gaming has become the industry that tribal governments can use to overturn 150 years of federal neglect. Less than one-third of the tribes in the U.S. have gaming operations. Thus the entire proceeds of the industry go back to fund tribal government programs, just as state revenue funds state programs.
States use lottery proceeds much the same way tribes use gaming proceeds.
Over 120,000 direct jobs and 160,000 indirect jobs have been created nationwide. The 1990 U.S. Census revealed that 30.9 percent of the country's Indians live in poverty. Their poverty rate is the highest of any ethnic group in America. The poverty rate for the entire United States population was much lower, 13.1 percent. The unemployment rate for all Indians living on reservations was 45 percent in 1991, according to latest figures available from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.