Washington Casino Anticipates April Opening

The $510 million ilani Casino Resort (l.), being built by the Cowlitz tribe of Washington, is looking at a mid-April opening. The casino, near La Center, is located on...

Published February 27, 2017

Tribal Growth Fund: Model for Economic Success

A Colorado tribe, the Southern Utes, have found the key for wealth generation with the Southern Ute Growth Fund. The fund has been called “one of the most sophisticated...

Published February 27, 2017

Tribe Fights Texas Over Casino

Texas and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe are in a legal battle over the tribe’s Naskila Gaming Center (l.). The Attorney General says the casino, which opened a year ago, violates...

Published February 27, 2017

Ruling Puts Tribe’s Vendors in Jeopardy

A federal judge has OK’d the state of New Mexico to take legal action against vendors supplying the Pojoaque Pueblo’s two casinos, including Buffalo Thunder (l.). The casinos are...

Published February 27, 2017

N. Dakota Tribe Tries to Revive Casino

North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux, who for months have fought the Dakota Access Pipeline are now feeling the economic effects of that battle on their Prairie Knights Casino (l.)....

Published February 27, 2017

Oregon Governor Criticized for Casino Junket

Oregon Governor Kate Brown (l.) got a $5,000 donation from the Cow Creek Band on the same day she stayed at the tribe’s Seven Feather Resort. After she announced...

Published February 27, 2017

Jena Choctaw Pines Announces Hotel Plans

The Jena Choctaw Band Tribe announced it will build an 80-room hotel at its Jena Choctaw Pines Casino in Grant Parish, Louisiana, which recently turned four. Tribal Chief Cheryl...

Published February 27, 2017

Michigan Tribe Pays $3 Million To State, County

Under its revenue sharing agreement, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians paid $2.7 million to Michigan and will pay $535,000 to Emmet County from revenue from its...

Published February 27, 2017

Foxwoods to Celebrate 25th Anniversary This Month

Foxwoods Resort Casino, which went from modest beginnings to one of the largest casinos in the world, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The first of what will be a...

Published February 20, 2017

California Casino Moves Forward—Maybe

The Elk Grove, California, City Council last week took an action that was largely moot. It reversed itself on an earlier decision that had made it easier for the...

Published February 20, 2017

Mashpee Chairman Re-Elected

In a contentious election, Cedric Cromwell (l.) was re-elected as chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts. Cromwell is directing an effort to build a casino in Taunton,...

Published February 20, 2017

Santa Barbara’s Schizophrenic Attitude Towards Chumash Tribe

Is it wise to want to talk face to face to people who you are suing? The Board of Supervisors of California’s Santa Barbara County thinks so. While in...

Published February 20, 2017

Tribes Worry About New Administration

Indian tribes worry that the new Trump administration not only won’t show them the same deference the Obama administration did, but may be downright hostile. Some Native Americans familiar...

Published February 20, 2017

Bill Would Create California Reservation

U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (l.) of California wants to push through a bill in Congress that would create a reservation for the Lytton Rancheria in the Golden State’s wine...

Published February 20, 2017

Idaho Bill Targets Tribal Gaming

An Idaho lawmakers wants to amend a state law so that it will be illegal for the state’s five gaming tribes to employ slot machines. Rep. Tom Loertscher believes...

Published February 20, 2017

ilani Casino Opening Two Months Away

The ilani Casino is looking at an April opening. Kara Fox-LaRose (l.), president of the property, says they have filled 70 percent of the jobs for the $510 million...

Published February 20, 2017

Tribe Settles Bond Issue Case

The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Super Chippewa in Wisconsin agreed to pay $27 million to settle legal action regarding a $50 million 2008 bond issue. Other parties...

Published February 20, 2017

Oklahoma Tribe Hopes For Georgia Casino

The Oklahoma-based United Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee was driven from its native Georgia in the 1830s, but wants to return there and open a casino. The tribe could...

Published February 20, 2017

Potawatomi Announce Second Hotel Tower

Construction will begin later this year on a second, 16-story hotel tower with up to 200 rooms and 70 suites at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee. Owned by...

Published February 20, 2017

Stallings Says California Tribes Should Embrace Technology

Steve Stallings (l.), the chairman of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association thinks that tribes have too often been afraid to firmly grasp new technology in their casinos. Last...

Published February 20, 2017