Bill Would Support Texas Tribe’s Casino

Letters of support for HR 759, which would allow two tribes in Texas to legally offer Class II gaming, such as the Naskila Entertainment City (l.) in Livingston, are...

Published June 15, 2020

Alabama Band, Nontribal Operators Ready To Talk

In an online meeting of Alabama Governor Kay Ivey's (l.) study group on gambling, Poarch Creek Indian officials and commercial gambling operators said they're ready to resolve their differences...

Published June 15, 2020

Interior Approves Oklahoma Compacts

The U.S. Interior Department has approved the controversial gaming compacts between Oklahoma and two so-called rogue tribes. Attorney General Mike Hunter called the decision "irresponsible." Otoe-Missouria Tribal Chairman John...

Published June 15, 2020

U.S. Treasury Gives Tribes More Time to Upload CARES Data

The U.S. Treasury extended the deadline to May 29 to tribes for uploading data to the Treasury website to apply for the $3.2 billion that remains of CARES Act...

Published June 8, 2020

BIA Rejects Oregon Casino Plan

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) last week rejected the application by the Coquille Indian Tribe of Oregon to put land into trust that is located 170 miles from...

Published June 8, 2020

Michigan’s Gun Lake Tribe Issues $7.9 Million to Governments

The Gun Lake Tribe of Wayland, Michigan has shared more than $7.9 million in gaming revenue payments with state and local governments. Tribal Chairman Bob Peters (l.) called it...

Published June 8, 2020

Virginia Casino Deal Goes from Tribal to Commercial

Norfolk, Virginia officially named the Pamunkey Tribe its operator for a $500 million commercial—not tribal—casino. Local voters will approve or reject the projects in November.

Published June 8, 2020

Oklahoma Tribes Urge Federal Compact Approval

In Oklahoma, the Comanche and Otoe-Missouria tribes are defending their actions in signing a new gambling compact with Governor Kevin Stitt—a move widely criticized by other tribes. The dissenting...

Published June 8, 2020

Navajo Casinos in New Mexico Won’t Reopen Until June

The Navajo Nation, one of the tribes hardest hit areas by the Covid-19 outbreak, has announced that it will not reopen its three casinos in New Mexico until June...

Published June 1, 2020

Judge Says Fort Sill Apache Can’t Build Casino in New Mexico

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen S. Huvelle has upheld a previous ruling by the National Indian Gaming Commission that the Oklahoma-based Fort Sill Apache Tribe may not operate a...

Published June 1, 2020

Oregon Tribe Plans 111-Room Hotel

Oregon’s Coquille Indian Tribe has announced plans for a 111-room Hotel of the Cedars to be adjacent to its previously announced Cedars at Bear Creek Casino in Medford, along...

Published June 1, 2020

Eastern Band Loses Suit Over Catawba Casino

A federal judge denied the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Interior Department from taking land into trust in Kings Mountain, North...

Published June 1, 2020

Judge Rules Against Tribes Over Electronic Pulltabs

Several Minnesota tribes sued the state Gambling Control Board, claiming electronic pulltabs violated their gaming exclusivity rights. But Judge Barbara Case (l.) ruled that the games, offered by charitable...

Published June 1, 2020

Oklahoma Governor, Tribes Make Their Case

Attorneys for Governor Kevin Stitt (l.) and nine tribes suing him presented documents in federal court explaining why the judge should rule in their favor in the ongoing gaming-compacts...

Published June 1, 2020

Massachusetts Tribe Could Lose Casino—and Everything Else

The Mashpee Wampanoags are fighting an attempt by the U.S. Interior Department to rescind the trust status protecting their tiny reservation in southeastern Massachusetts. The tribe has tried for...

Published June 1, 2020

California Sports Betting Compromise?

Last week California Senator Bill Dodd (l.) and Assemblyman Adam Gray introduced their long-awaited sports betting bill that would permit sports betting at tribal casinos and racetracks, but not...

Published June 1, 2020

Court Upends New Mexico Casino Plans

A federal court ruling seems to spell the end for the casino that the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma wants to build in neighboring New Mexico. The tribe...

Published May 25, 2020

CA Supreme Court to Hear Mono Casino Case

In June, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case where the Mono Indians want to build a casino near Madera off Highway 99. Neighboring tribes...

Published May 25, 2020

Tribes to Get CARES Funds—Six Weeks Late

Because of byzantine data requirements of the Department of the Treasury, about $3.2 billion intended for Indian tribes as part of the CARES Act has been delayed six weeks....

Published May 25, 2020

Oklahoma Tribal Chairmen Defend Compacts

Comanche Nation Chairman William Nelson Sr. (l.) and Otoe-Missouria Tribe Chairman John Shotton sent a legal memo to U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt defending their new gaming...

Published May 25, 2020