Wheel of Misfortune. (cover story)Focuses on gaming on reservations and the abuse of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Story of Maryann Martin, whose mother had been the last surviving member of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians in California, and how she got the right to operate a casino on an abandoned Indian reservation in Coachella; Amount of federal aid she gets for a tribe of one; Discussion of revenues from gambling, the idea that casinos do not raise most Native Americans out of poverty, and investors who benefit from Indian casinos.