together and only by sharing that of information will the industry be better protected, responsible and profitable. So how does that happen - Well I think there needs to be a published COVID-19 Best Practices for Indian Gaming and Hospitality document that evolves through lessons learned as we progress into the coming months. As Klint mentioned the Playbook. Such a document might also serve to provide guidance if a second wave materializes. NIGA should consider being the clearinghouse for best practice and lessons learned information. 5. Loud talkers, supposedly have a higher propensity for transmission - meatpacking plants are noisy which means employees are shouting or speaking loudly and we’ve seen they have high rates of virus transmission. We’ve all heard of the South Korean night club patron who infected at least 80 folks, he was in loud nightclubs. Casinos are typically noisy environments in which people speak louder than usual - maybe as we are transitioning through this learning experience there might be an effort to lower the volume of noise from machines. Calm the environment. Washington Professional Football Ending 87 year Racist Era Is the Washington pro football team name racist? Yes. It’s racist! “Redskins” is a racial slur against Native Americans based on perceptions of our skin color akin to all the past exploitive racial references used to depict minorities in this Country. We do not normally say it, but we do here to retire the “R” word from use. Bounty hunters collected “Redskin” scalps to prove how many “Redskins” they killed: “The Dutch governor of Manhattan, Willem Kieft, offered the first bounty in North America for Indian scalps in 1641, only 21 years after the Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. The Massachusetts Bay Colony first offered $60 per Indian scalp in 1703,” Indian Country Today reports. In 1789, President George Washington signed into law, the policy that “the utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians.” Yet, by the late 1800s, popular dogma said, “the White Man’s Burden” was to “civilize” the “Redskins.” In the 1868 Treaty, to end Red Cloud’s War to save the Black Hills and the Powder River Country, the United States pledged its “honor” to keep the peace and vowed war “shall forever cease.” In 1873—just five years later—President Grant said, it must be “civilization … or a war of extermination.” In 1876, General Sherman persuaded President Grant to approve a “scorched earth” war to steal the Black Hills for gold. At the Little Big Horn, Custer met his fate attacking our Lakota and Cheyenne village after his soldiers shot our women and children in our tipis. Sitting Bull, the great Lakota leader, asked why the United States made war upon his people: “What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own people? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Lakota? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country? God made me Lakota.”
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