Arthur Raymond Halbritter

Arthur Raymond " Ray" Halbritter (* 1951) is a member of the North American Indian tribe of the Oneida. He is now regarded as the most powerful Oneida at all.

How many Iroquois also worked Ray Halbritter in his early years as an iron worker on the skyscrapers of New York and other major cities. According to own statements, he was early 20's and has been in the underground tube from Washington DC Tracks welded together, as he looked at the worker next to him, who was also Indian, about 50, but looked like 80, since he realized that he could not go on like this. Halbritter returned to the Oneida Reserve, and afforded a degree from Harvard Law School.

In 1990, Ray Halbritter CEO of the Oneida Nation. As a result, he successfully negotiated with the State of New York to protect the rights of gambling. The Turning Stone Casino was the first casino of the state and thus also the first casino in the Oneida. Meanwhile, the Oneida lead over a dozen casinos and other associated businesses such as luxury hotels, shops, restaurants and golf courses.

Ray Halbritter is considered by the Oneida ambivalent. On one hand, he has been the poor tribe bestowed annual revenues in triplicate millions and could thus for the tribal members finance a number of benefits such as free medical care, comprehensive care for the elderly, alcohol and drug counseling programs and heating subsidies. On the other hand, see the Oneida their traditional culture threatened. As would settle as a tribal chieftain him the clan mother, he sat down unceremoniously on the rules of the strain away and replaced the clan mother with a piece of advice he occupied with his helpers. He controls the local media, does not allow meeting with more than five persons and prohibits traditional ceremonies. Opposition Oneida he excludes from the trunk.

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• Born in 1951
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