This is particularly true with eastern groups, where the profits from tribally owned casinos have proven to be substantial.
The Federal Government does impose income taxation on tribal members, but not on the tribally owned businesses on the reservation.
By 1933, there was no tribally owned land on the reservation, although some individuals still owned parcels.
Tribally owned gaming amounts to one-tenth of one percent of gaming in the United States.
Agreements were negotiated with only one owner of tribally owned land and in some cases land was purchased from the wrong people altogether.
Nationally, only 140 of the 314 reservations have entirely tribally owned land within their boundaries, and nearly half the people who live on reservations are non-Indians.
The Crown mediated the process to ensure that the true owners were properly identified (difficult for tribally owned land) and fairly compensated, by the standards of the time.
A tribally owned convenience store sells gas, six kinds of beef jerky and beaded knickknacks, but most of its shelves are empty.
Power for the casino is furnished in part by one of the nation's first tribally owned electricity-generating wind turbines.
Another tribally owned company is Uniband.