Tribes Ready For Location Reveal for Third Connecticut Casino

Promising they are “days away” from revealing the location and design of Connecticut’s third casino, Mohegan Tribal Chairman Kevin Brown said the legislature needs to pass a bill immediately....

Published February 27, 2017

Idaho House Narrowly Rejects Tribal Slots Ban

Idaho’s four gaming tribes were fighting a proposed bill by Rep. Tom Loertscher that would ban slot machines at tribal casinos. The bill is supported by the state’s racetracks...

Published February 27, 2017

California Land Placed in Trust

Thirty-six acres in Elk Grove, California, site of an unfinished outlet mall (l.), have been placed into trust for the Wilton Rancheria, says the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The...

Published February 27, 2017

Hard Rock Tampa Ends Parking Fee

Customers no longer will have to pay $10 to park at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa. The casino began charging the fee last August, assuming...

Published February 27, 2017

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