Back to Square One for Connecticut Tribes

In a surprise move, the Mashantucket Pequot and the Mohegan tribes have announced that they are reopening a search for a site to host a casino designed to compete...

Published September 19, 2016

Tribal Casino Limbo Launches Talk of Commercial in Massachusetts

Questions over the ruling of a federal court challenging the land-into-trust decision made by the Bureau of Indian Affairs has reopened interest in a commercial casino in the southeastern...

Published September 19, 2016

Oregon Tribe to Appeal Casino Decision

The Grand Ronde Tribe of Oregon is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a decision allowing a rival tribe in Washington to put land into trust. It hopes to...

Published September 19, 2016

Lumbee Tribe Pursues Federal Recognition

The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs recently heard testimony from Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Chairman Harvey Godwin regarding S-2285, the Lumbee Recognition Act. If the measure passes...

Published September 19, 2016

California to Pay Pauma Tribe $36.3 million

The state of California will pay the price for overreaching by its former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger (l.), who during his two terms in office never met a scheme for...

Published September 19, 2016

California Governor Signs Eight Tribal Gaming Compacts

The governor of the Golden State, Jerry Brown (l.), has signed eight tribal state gaming compacts that promise that Indian gaming will continue to generate plenty of gold for...

Published September 19, 2016

St. Croix Tribe Building Casino Express

The new St. Croix Express Casino Complex in Hertel, Wisconsin is under construction with a soft opening scheduled for December. Operated by the 1,054-member St. Croix Chippewa tribe, the...

Published September 19, 2016

Judge Rules for California Casino

A challenge to an off-reservation casino that beat the odds, beat the voters of California and beat a rival gaming tribe, has been beaten down by the decision of...

Published September 19, 2016

City Agrees to Sell Land California Gaming Tribe

The city of Ridgecrest, California has agreed to sell 24.6 acres to the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, which is based 122 miles away, in Death Valley. The tribe would like...

Published September 19, 2016

Chickasaws Open WinStar Convention Center

The Chickasaw Nation recently held a ribbon-cutting for the new WinStar World Convention Center at its WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The 66,950 square foot, state-of-the-art...

Published September 19, 2016

Navajo Celebrates 10 Years of Gaming

The Navajo Nation this month is celebrating 10 years of gaming. Navajo Gaming oversees a $1.19 billion industry that supports 1,200 jobs and is an economic powerhouse for the...

Published September 19, 2016

Casino May Come to Juneau, Alaska

The withdrawal of opposition by Alaska Governor Bill Walker (l.) to the Department of the Interior putting indigenous peoples’ lands into trust for reservations may mean that tribes could...

Published September 5, 2016

San Diego Casino Opening Imminent

All the residents of Jamul in San Diego County know is that the Hollywood Casino (l.) is supposed to open soon. But the residents, many of who oppose the...

Published September 5, 2016

Labor Negotiations Intensify at Lytton

Friendship wasn’t forever for the San Pablo Lytton Casino and the Unite Here union. The union helped the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians obtain permission to add Las Vegas...

Published September 5, 2016

Connecticut Airport Authority Needn’t Share Casino Info

The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission has ruled that the Connecticut Airport Authority acted within its authority when it kept its negotiations about a possible Indian casino at the...

Published September 5, 2016

WinnaVegas Offers Non-Smoking Room

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska's WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa recently became the first casino in western Iowa to offer a non-smoking room. Marketing Director Travis Morgan said he...

Published September 5, 2016

Casino Renovations Ongoing, Racing Season Starting

A $3.5 million renovation is under way at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs (l.) in Claremore, Oklahoma. The project will be completed in April 2017 and relocate the casino...

Published September 5, 2016

California Casino Provides Fire Refuge

A northern California casino resorts, Twin Pine Casino & Hotel, twice provided relief, food and lodging for refugees from two raging wildfires during the summer. The most recent fire...

Published September 5, 2016

Tribal Casino Rivalry Brewing in Canada

Two Canadian First Nations are heading for a collision as both plan to build large casino resorts in the same city, Lloydminster. The city sits on the border between...

Published September 5, 2016

Chumash Tribe, County, Sign Police Contract

The County of Santa Barbara and the tribe based there, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, last week signed an agreement for the tribe to fund two law enforcement...

Published September 5, 2016