Michigan’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community is asking Governor Rick Snyder to reconsider his opposition to the tribe’s plan to find better digs for its Ojibwa II Casino.
The 3,300-member tribe operates two Class III casinos in its base in the state’s Upper Peninsula. The Ojibwa I is on reservation land. The Ojibwa II is about 90 miles away in Marquette County.
The tribe wants to move the Ojibwa II to land it owns at a nearby airport in Negaunee Township, which actually would place it closer to the reservation than it is now.
The federal government has approved the move, but Snyder has refused to sign off on it, even though the tribe says it will develop the site into a five-star destination resort that will result in significant job creation and economic development.
