Miami Beach Mayor Slams Seminole Gaming Compact

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber (l.) is urging Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to reject the proposed gaming compact between Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, saying it was...

Published June 14, 2021

Potawatomi Milwaukee Remains Smoke-Free

Smoking was banned at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino (l.) in Milwaukee last year due to Covid-19. Now officials announced the property will remain smoke-free even as it lifts...

Published June 7, 2021

Catawbas to Open Pre-Launch Facility in July

The Catawba Indian Nation will open its 500-slot “pre-launch” facility in early July while its $273 million Two Kings Casino Resort (l.) is built in Kings Mountain, North Carolina,...

Published June 7, 2021

Foxwoods Now Open, With Few Restrictions

Connecticut’s Mashantucket Pequot Tribe has fully reopened its Foxwoods Resort Casino. The zipline (l.), swimming pools, spa and concert venues all are open. The only requirement is that those...

Published June 7, 2021

New Mashpee Chairman to ‘Reevaluate’ Casino Plan

Brian Moskwetah Weeden (l.), new chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council, says he may direct his energies beyond the tribe’s fight for a casino in Taunton, Massachusetts. He...

Published June 7, 2021

Navajo Nation Maintains Mask Mandate

Despite the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendation that vaccinated people no longer need masks, the Navajo Nation Department of Health said its April 2020 mask mandate remains effect on...

Published May 31, 2021

Tribal Proposal Would Ban Smoking Inside Cherokee Casinos

A proposed tribal law being considered by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians would ban indoor smoking at the tribe’s two Harrah’s casinos in North Carolina.

Published May 31, 2021

September Trial Set For Former Tribal Chairman

Former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Chairman Cedric Cromwell (l.) will be tried on charges of bribery and extortion in U.S. District Court in Boston in September.

Published May 31, 2021

NC’s Eastern Band Appeals Catawba Casino Ruling

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which operates two Harrah’s casinos in North Carolina (Valley River at left) is appealing a judge’s ruling allowing the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian...

Published May 31, 2021

Michigan Band Still Awaiting Casino Approvals

The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is ready to start work on its second Michigan casino in Fruitport Township. Federal approval was granted in October. The tribe needs...

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Oklahoma Casino Expansion Nears Completion

The $600 million expansion at Choctaw Casino & Resort (l.) in Durant, Oklahoma should be complete in August. The addition will include 1,000 hotel rooms, new retail shops, restaurants,...

Published May 31, 2021

New York Village Takes Tribal Casino To Appeals Court

In an ongoing 20-year battle, the village of Union Spring in New York’s Finger Lakes area is unlikely to win its case against the Cayuga Nation’s casino (l.) in...

Published May 31, 2021

Eastern Band Forms New Leadership Group

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians said it expects the Indiana Gaming Commission to approve its new leadership group, EBCI Holdings LLC, as owners of the $250 million Caesars...

Published May 24, 2021

House Bill Would Allow Texas Tribes to Offer Gaming

The U.S. House has passed a bill that would let two Texas tribes offer more gaming. The legislation would affect the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe,...

Published May 24, 2021

U.S. Tribal Rights in Canada Recognized

Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that U.S. Indians with ancestral lands in Canada have rights to visit without regards to the international border. The case was brought by...

Published May 17, 2021

National Native American Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2021

The National Native American Hall of Fame named eight new members for 2021. They include a wide range of Native Americans, from poets to entrepreneurs to politicians. They will...

Published May 17, 2021

California Tribal Casino Pushed Back to 2032

A second Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians casino in California won’t happen before 2031. Those are the terms of an updated agreement between the county and the tribe,...

Published May 17, 2021

San Diego County Ends Blanket Opposition to Tribal Expansion

The Board of Supervisors (l.) of San Diego County May 5 voted to end a more than two decade blanket opposition to any of its 18 tribes trying to...

Published May 17, 2021

Foxwoods Relaxes Most Covid Protocols, Except Masking

Foxwoods Resorts Casino in Connecticut, after more than a year under Covid-19 protocols, has announced it will relax most of them, except indoor masking. All the machines are open...

Published May 17, 2021

More and More, Gaming Tribes Find a Foothold in Vegas

Once, Las Vegas did all it could to ignore Indian gaming. Now gaming tribes are buying properties on the Las Vegas Strip—like Mohegan Sun at Virgin Hotels (l.), and...

Published May 17, 2021