Seminoles Running Ads Promoting Compact

Florida lawmakers have indicated they can live without the Seminole compact provision allowing exclusive rights to banked card games in exchange for $1 billion over five years. Meanwhile the...

Published March 16, 2015

Phoenix-Area Mayors Protest Casino

As the Tohono O'odham Nation builds a temporary casino structure in Glendale, Arizona, four regional mayors urged Arizona's Congressional delegation to pass legislation to "prevent the Tohono O'odham Nation...

Published March 16, 2015

BIA Finalizes Cowlitz Tribe Reservation

The BIA recently granted the Cowlitz Indian Tribe a reservation near La Center, Washington, where the tribe plans to build a 134,000 square foot casino. However, an appeal is...

Published March 16, 2015

Potawatomis Pay Wisconsin Casino Fee

The Forest County Potawatomi tribe recently paid the casino fee to Wisconsin it had withheld since last June. The tribe held back its 6.5 percent net win payment over...

Published March 16, 2015

Kansas Fighting Quapaw Expansion Plans

The Quapaw Tribe wants to expand its Downstream Casino (l.) in northeast Oklahoma to the parking that happens to be located in southeast Kansas. The National Indian Gaming Commission...

Published March 16, 2015

Cherokees Open South Coffeyville Casino

The ninth and newest casino operated by Cherokee Nation opened in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma. The $10 million facility employs 135 people, including 100 Cherokee citizens. With17,000 square feet, the...

Published March 16, 2015

Lawsuit Claims Faction of California Tribe Looted Casino

Factions of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in Northern California are battling in court over alleged embezzling of tribal funds earned at the tribe’s Rolling Hills Casino (l.)....

Published March 16, 2015

Chief Paid To Promote Competing Casino

Muscogee (Creek) Nation Chief George Tiger received $31,500 to promote the Kialegee Tribal Town's Red Clay Casino that would have directly competed with the Muscogee Nation's River Spirit Casino....

Published March 16, 2015

NM Gaming Compact Moves to Senate

A controversial compact between five of New Mexico’s gaming tribes and the state has moved into the Senate. It also needs approval of the House. Governor Susana Martinez (l.)...

Published March 9, 2015

NIGC Reduces Rates Again

The primary federal regulatory agency for Indian gaming last week published its annual fee rates for tribes with gaming under National Indian Gaming Commission oversight. For the second straight...

Published March 9, 2015

Interim Casino Could Open in Arizona in March

The first phase of the controversial Tohono O'odham tribe’s casino in Glendale is near to opening. The tribe wants to open an interim casino although there are very active...

Published March 9, 2015

Two California Officials Recuse Themselves from Regulatory Proceedings

Two officials of the California Gambling Control Commission—including its chairman Richard Lopez and executive director—last week chose to recuse themselves from regulatory proceedings in which a former associate who...

Published March 9, 2015

Judge Settles One Leg of Wampanoag Legal Question

One legal question has been settled in the federal lawsuit to decide whether the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) may build a casino on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. A...

Published March 9, 2015

Seminole Hard Rock Considers Hotel

The Seminole Tribe is pursuing regulatory permission to build a 1.2 million square foot, 16-floor, 537-room hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa. Tribal spokesman...

Published March 9, 2015

Group Wants Tribal Council Replaced

In Nebraska, the Winnebago Tribe for the People is circulating petitions to force seven of eight tribal council members to resign or risk a recall. A tribe-commissioned report showed...

Published March 9, 2015

Tribes Raise Revenue Through Payday Loans

Declaring their sovereign rights, an argument used to open casinos decades ago, about two dozen Native American tribes now offer high-interest payday and installment loans online. For the Lac...

Published March 9, 2015

Michigan Town’s Casino Opposition Fading

Opposition is decreasing regarding the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians' proposed $180 million casino development (l.) in Fruitport Township, Muskegon County, Michigan, said Ogema Larry Romanelli. He noted...

Published March 9, 2015

Little River Band Presents Application

The Little River Band is a step closer to a $180 million off-reservation casino (rendering l.) in Muskegon County, Michigan. Tribal officials recently presented a land-to-trust application to the...

Published March 3, 2015

Arizona Tribal Casino Rising Near Glendale

The $400 million casino that the Tohono O’odham Nation is building near Glendale is starting to rise from the desert, but a temporary casino will open sometime in 2015.

Published March 3, 2015

New Mexico Legislature Mulls Tribal Gaming Compact

Lawmakers in New Mexico are holding hearings on a tribal state gaming compact that is the result of three years of negotiations between Governor Susanna Martinez and the tribes....

Published March 3, 2015