TRIBES HOPE TO TAKE A GAMBLE CHEYENNE, ARAPAHO SAY COLO. CASINO MAY MAKE $110 MILLION

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: May 8, 2004| Author: Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News | Copyright information

Survival has been a long shot for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho for many, many years.

The once-proud buffalo hunters of the Great Plains were exiled first to Colorado's eastern half, then to the state's southeast corner and, ultimately to the drylands of Oklahoma.

Freedom was lost. Starvation and disease followed.

That past resounds today in the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal offices, where the the ill, the elderly, the troubled and the unemployed wait patiently.

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