Acoma, New Mexico Negotiate Compact

New Mexico and the Acoma Pueblo recently reached agreement on a proposed 22-year gambling compact. The current compact, which allows the pueblo to operate the Sky City Casino (l.)...

Published January 19, 2015

BIA Rules on Wisconsin’s Potawatomi Compact

The Indian Affairs division of the Interior Department last week ruled that a compact between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Forest County Potawatomi tribe is illegal. Walker must...

Published January 12, 2015

Financial Picture Grim At Foxwoods

Net revenue in 2014 at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut fell 7.7 percent from $1.04 billion in 2013 to $960.1 million. Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville also reported...

Published January 12, 2015

Harrah’s Ak-Chin Has Huge Economic Impact

A study shows Harrah's Ak-Chin casino in Pinal County, Arizona, owned by the Ak-Chin Indian Community, contributed $205 million of the $500 million economic impact generated by the 2008...

Published January 12, 2015

Turf War Delays Interchange Serving Pechanga Casino

A freeway interchange in Temecula, Riverside County, California has been delayed for months by bureaucratic wrangling, creating gridlock for the Pechanga Resort & Casino, among other tourist destinations.

Published January 12, 2015

Idaho Tribes Call Instant Racing Illegal

Instant racing is illegal and “a hoax” according to four Idaho gaming tribes, who say that the state government erred when it allowed the state’s racetracks to deploy the...

Published January 12, 2015

CKST Officials Issue Gambling Reminder

Officials of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes are reminding residents and businesses on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana that Class III gaming is illegal on the reservation....

Published January 12, 2015

Navajos Propose New Gaming Compact

The gaming Navajo Nation-New Mexico gaming compact will expire in June on three casinos (Fire Rock at l.) and tribal leaders recently proposed a new arrangement that Navajo Nation...

Published January 5, 2015

Cowlitz Ruling Could Set New Indian Gaming Precedent

In La Center, Washington, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe has been approved to build a casino after more than a decade of legal battles. Cowlitz Chairman Bill Iyall (l.) says...

Published January 5, 2015

Shinnecocks Look to Seminoles for Assistance

The star-crossed Shinnecock Nation of New York has turned to another supporter for assistance, the Seminole tribe, which dominates Florida’s gaming industry. The Shinnecocks want to build a...

Published January 5, 2015

Walker’s Kenosha Casino Decision Coming

In just a few weeks, the world will know if Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (l.) approved the Menominee Tribe's proposed $810 million off-reservation in Kenosha. Prior to the February...

Published January 5, 2015

Four Winds Announces Satellite Casino

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians announced it will open a satellite casino in August, located between Kalamazoo and the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan. The satellite...

Published January 5, 2015

Indian Gaming Growing as Percentage of the Total U.S. Revenue

Indian gaming continues to be a vital growing sector of gaming in the United States, despite predictions that the market as a whole is nearing saturation.

Published January 5, 2015

Congress Fails to Block Arizona Casino

Opponents of the Glendale, Arizona casino being built by the Tohono O’odham Nation failed to pass a bill through the 113th Congress that would have halted the casino from...

Published January 5, 2015

Tribe Wins Duluth Lawsuit Dismissal

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa recently won another victory over the city of Duluth which had sought to block the expansion of the tribe's Fond-du-Luth...

Published January 5, 2015

Connecticut Tribe Anticipates Massachusetts Competition

The Mohegan Tribe, which operates the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, wants to open another gaming facility to protect the economy from competition, in the form of MGM...

Published January 5, 2015

Court Won’t Reconsider Broken Arrow Ruling

In a blow to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request to reconsider its ruling overturning a district judge's May 2012...

Published January 5, 2015

Administration Encourages Tribes to Grow Pot on Reservations

The Obama Justice Department is extending the same courtesy to tribal reservations that it currently gives to states when it comes to enforcement of federal drug laws, and is...

Published January 5, 2015

New Mexico Tribe Eliminates Debt in New Deal with Lenders

A restructuring deal five years in the making allows the Pueblo of Pojoaque to alleviate the burden of over $80 million of the $240 million total owed for the...

Published December 22, 2014

Northern Arapaho Challenge Obamacare Provisions

The Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming says its Wind River Casino employees can't buy subsidized health insurance plans and filed a federal lawsuit to change that. If its tribal...

Published December 22, 2014