hops for beer production provided numerous summer employment opportunities. In many cases, families moved from one harvest operation to the next. In 1934, the U.S. abandoned its policy of weakening tribal associations and breaking them up into individuals. A significant breakthrough was the 1987 California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians court case, which strengthened Indian sovereignty and prohibited state interference in the important casino business (see Cahuilla). These gambling establishments have since evolved into profitable entertainment venues, which have shifted their original focus in favor of comprehensive tourism and entertainment offerings. Several Coast Salish tribes also maintain such casinos, such as the Muckleshoot or the Skokomish, the Tulalip, the Shoalwater Bay tribe, the Upper Skagit, and as of 2009, the Snoqualmie. At the same time, some tribes are showing tremendous growth. For example, the Puyallup on southern Puget Sound, which by 1850 consisted of only 50 survivors of severe epidemics, slowly rebounded at first. Gaining land rights, sovereignty, and economic self-sufficiency not only attracted new residents to the reservation and its environs, but more and more people acknowledged their Native American heritage. Today, the tribe again boasts more than 3,800 members. Revival of spirituality The Indian Shaker Church, combining Christian and indigenous spiritual concepts, is based on the personal death and rebirth experiences of a coastal Salish from Puget Sound named John Slocum. From there, the doctrine, launched in 1882, spread to British Columbia. Winter Spirit Dance was rediscovered since the 1950s and reached its first peak in the 1990s. Even before the potlatch ban was lifted, there was a corresponding movement, but when the ban was lifted in 1951, they were allowed to go public again. Ten years later, there were still only about 100 dancers, but by the 1990s, 500 or more dancers often gathered. A song and spirit helper introduces the necessary knowledge, rituals such as bathing in the wilderness, restriction to certain food, are meant to strengthen the novice in his isolation from the environment. Potlatches are meanwhile celebrated when someone is to receive the name of an ancestor, a funeral is pending, in memory of a deceased. Guests are invited from all over the Salish area to attend. Sometimes everything in the house is given away. Also revived were the arts of carving, painting and weaving. Susan Point of the Musqueam has achieved national fame. In addition, there is canoe building. Canoe trips now