Oneida Indian Nation gaming collection, M2038
Scope and Contents
Newspaper articles, offical Oneida Indian Nation brochure, and ephemera related to the early history of Oneida Indian Nation gaming and casinos
Dates
- Creation: 1994 - 1995
Biographical / Historical
This collection documents the life of Ray Halbritter, his political rise to become the Oneida Indian Nation Representative in 1987 and his efforts to improve the economic conditions of the Oneida people from 1990 through 1995. The bulk of the collection is six articles published in the Syracuse Post Standard and Syracuse Herald American between October 8 through October 15, 1995. These articles focus on the positive and negative affects of the Turning Stone Casino. Turning Stone was was the first casino approved by New York State in July 1993.
Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to the Oneida gaming collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Melissa Hubbard and Emily Hutton-Hughes
- Date
- December 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Colgate University Libraries Repository
13 Oak Drive
Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
Colgate University
Hamilton New York 13346 United States US
315-228-6175
315-228-7934 (Fax)
