New Mexico Tribe Allows Membership to Expand

A New Mexico tribe, the Pueblo of Isleta, which operates the Isleta Resort & Casino near Albuquerque, has voted to allow people who have one quarter Isleta blood to...

Published May 23, 2016

California Group Sues to Stop Water for Casino Expansion

A group opposed to the expansion that the Chumash Casino Resort in Southern California plans to open later this month has sued to stop it from using water resources...

Published May 23, 2016

Snoqualmie Tribe Plans Multi-Service Store

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe recently broke ground near its Snoqualmie Casino in Washington for a convenience store featuring 12 gas pumps, a deli, market, beer cave and drive-up window...

Published May 23, 2016

Arizona Tribal Gaming Supports Prop 123

Arizona tribes affiliated with the AIGA last week came out in support of a voter initiative that would improve education in the state.

Published May 23, 2016

California Tribe May Downsize Casino Project

Northern California’s Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians has been forced by the proximity of the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park to scale back its original plans. The...

Published May 23, 2016

California Town Has Multiple Meetings About Casino

The issue of whether the California community of Ridgecrest City should welcome the attempts by the Timbisha Shoshone tribe of Death Valley to apply for an off-reservation casino threatens...

Published May 23, 2016

Seneca Nation Nearly Done Expanding Buffalo Creek, But Problems Remain

The expansion of the Buffalo Creek casino in Buffalo, New York, is almost completed. Seneca Gaming Chairman Barry Snyder (l.) believes the facility has benefited the city as well...

Published May 23, 2016

Gaming Tribe Makes New Profits With Gourmet Olive Oil

The wages of gaming is more than simple profits for the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. It is also gourmet class olive oil grown in the fertile Mediterranean soil and...

Published May 23, 2016

Seminoles Made $2.4 Billion Last Year

The Seminole Tribe dropped an emergency motion to stop Politico from publishing the deposition of Seminole Gaming Chief Executive Officer James Allen (l.) after the website released it. Tribal...

Published May 16, 2016

Potawatomi Seeking Arena Naming Rights

The Milwaukee Bucks' new arena (l.) will open for the 2018-2019 NBA season, but the owners want to announce naming rights by November—and the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino is...

Published May 16, 2016

Tribe Considering Rochester Casino/Arts Complex

In downtown Rochester, New York, the Seneca Nation of Indians has its eye on developing a multi-story venue with a performing arts center on the top two floors and...

Published May 16, 2016

Michigan To Tribe: Apply To BIA—Again

In 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs approved the Michigan-based Keweenaw Bay Indian Community's application for an off-reservation casino at the former Marquette County Airport. But now Governor...

Published May 16, 2016

Mashpee Tribe is Last One Standing in Mass Southeast

With the elimination of a possible casino in Brockton by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission last week, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has nothing but a pesky federal lawsuit standing in...

Published May 9, 2016

Northern California Tribe Cleared for Casino

The Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians has put 62 acres into trust in Sonoma County, California, where it hopes to build a $320 million casino (rendering at left).

Published May 9, 2016

Snyder Rejects KBIC Proposal—Again

In a final plea to be allowed to move its Ojibwa Casino in Chocolay Township to the former Marquette County Airport (l.) property—which has been approved by the Interior...

Published May 9, 2016

Louisiana Tribe Hires Mohegan Sun Operator

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe, owners of the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, Louisiana, signed a consulting and management contract with the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, operators of Mohegan Sun casinos...

Published May 9, 2016

Bill in Congress Threatens California Casino

Several California members of Congress, including Rep. Doug LaMalfa (l.), are pushing a bill that would make it illegal for the Bureau of Indian Affairs—or the courts—to force an...

Published May 9, 2016

Jury Awards $11 Million Against Choctaw Nation in Bus Crash

A Texas jury has held the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma liable in a 2013 crash of a casino charter bus that killed two elderly passengers. The jury awarded nearly...

Published May 9, 2016

Duluth Will Appeal BIA Ruling

The Bureau of Indian Affairs will take into trust the Carter Hotel property, owned by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and located next to its...

Published May 9, 2016

Minnesota Tribe Takes Seven-Generation View

The late Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Tribal Chair Stanley Crooks' (l.) philosophy of planning seven generations ahead continues to drive the tribe, owners of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in...

Published May 9, 2016