Simon Akam

Photography: Native Americans

Viewed from a suite high in a neighbouring hotel, Foxwoods Casino towers over the woodlands of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation in Connecticut. Founded in 1986 as a bingo hall, Foxwoods has grown to become the largest casino in the US, and has brought great wealth to the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)
8 February 2009
Viewed from a suite high in a neighbouring hotel, Foxwoods Casino towers over the woodlands of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation in Connecticut. Founded in 1986 as a bingo hall, Foxwoods has grown to become the largest casino in the US, and has brought great wealth to the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)