Darrel Manitowabi is an associate professor in Human Sciences at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University and is the inaugural Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Indigenous Health and Traditional Medicine. He is Three Fires Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, and he currently resides in the Whitefish River First Nation. His interest in Indigenous gambling is the intersection of the Indigenous cultural theory and practice of gambling within colonialism, determinants of health and Indigenous self-determination. He recently collaborated in a national study examining the social, political, economic and cultural impact of casinos in Canada.