The Bishop Paiute Tribe of California is trying to overcome roadblocks to evicting tribal members from the land that it wants to use for the $30 million expansion of its Paiute Palace Casino, adding more slot machines and a hotel.
The families originally assigned those parcels fought the tribe and in 2015 won in the Intertribal Court of Southern California Court of Appeals. However, the tribe refuses to recognize the ruling and has instead taken the case to its own appeals court.
A group opposed to this move recently wrote on Facebook “The Tribal Council members have spent an enormous amount of the tribe’s money on the prosecuting tribal members for occupying family land assignment lots south of the Paiute Palace Casino.”
