DiversityInc - November/December 2008

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AMERICAN INN^sDIAON

American Indians …

… are more likely
to be working
… are more likely
to be veterans
… have larger
families

STATISTICS

80%

AMERICA N INDIANS _72%GENERAL POPULATION

15% AMERICAN

INDIANS

14. 5 GENERAL POPULATION

… are younger

MEDIAN AGE

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

28 AMERICAN INDIANS

3.6MEMBERS AMERICAN INDIANS

38

WHITES

3.2MEMBERS GENERAL POPULATION

GAMING

AMERICAN INDIAN BUYING POWER

BUSINESS

Gaming exists in 28 states with more than 200 tribes.

Revenue from tribal gaming grew about 300% from $6.3 billion in 1996 to $25 billion in 2006.

1996

$6.3

BILLION

2006

25 BILLION

Source: National Indian Gaming Commission

American Indian buying power was

$19.7 billion in 1990, $39 bill ion in 2000, $57.1 billion in 2007, a nd is 190% expected to be $77.4 billion in 2012. AMERICAN

INDIANS _{134% 124%}GENERAL

POPULATION ^WHITES

Source: Survey of Business Owners

1824
1830
1851
1868
1871
1876
1881

HISTORY

Bureau of Indian Affairs established

The Indian Removal Act is passed

The Fort
Laramie
Treaty gives
land to tribes

Col. George Congress Armstrong Custer dissolves attacks Cheyenne status of village and kills tribes as more than 100 nations men, women and children

Custe r’s Last Stand, also known as the Battle of Little Big Horn

Sitting Bull surrenders

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