Navajo Gaming Extends Closure Until June 7

The Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise last week extended the closure of gaming operations until June 7, including its Twin Arrows resort (l.) near Flagstaff, Arizona. The Navajo have been...

Published May 18, 2020

Outbreak Means Ongoing Devastation for Tribes

For many tribes, the gaming industry is the new buffalo. But like their ancestors, today’s tribes are seeing a vital source of revenues and independence threatened by Covid-19. Bryan...

Published May 18, 2020

Valley View Casino Among the First to Reopen in San Diego

Valley View Casino (l.) in San Diego County will reopen May 22 after two months on lockdown, leading the way for tribal resorts in the vicinity. It’s an exciting...

Published May 18, 2020

California Casino Furloughs Employees

The San Francisco Bay Area’s dominant gaming hall, Graton Resort & Casino, has announced it will furlough three-quarters of its employees to conserve funds. The resort may reopen next...

Published May 11, 2020

OK Governor: No More ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Compacts

Two Oklahoma tribes signed new gaming compacts with Governor Kevin Stitt (l.), providing lower exclusivity fees and allowing them to build new casinos, as well as offering sports betting....

Published May 11, 2020

Feds Begin Distributing Relief Funds to Tribes

The U.S. Treasury has begun distributing $8 billion in Covid-19 relief to Indian tribes crippled by the disease. President Donald Trump called it the country’s “single largest investment in...

Published May 11, 2020

Poarch Creek Continues To Honor Payments in Pennsylvania

On behalf of Wind Creek Bethlehem Casino, Wind Creek Hospitality, the business arm of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, recently paid its $2.5 million host fee to the...

Published May 04, 2020

Washington Casino to Reopen Smokeless

The Arlington, Washington-based Angels of the Winds Casino Resort will reopen soon. When it does patrons will not be allowed to smoke inside the facility.

Published May 04, 2020

Arizona Casinos Extend Closures

Casinos in the Phoenix, Arizona area have announced when they will be reopening. They all take into account the order by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey’s extending the shut-down...

Published May 04, 2020

Mohegan Sun May Reopen May 12

The Mohegan Sun (l.), one of two mega-casinos in Connecticut won’t open before May 12. This is a two-week pushback from what the Mohegan Tribe originally announced.

Published May 04, 2020

Michigan Tribes Ponder Casino Reopenings

Although Michigan's 12 federally recognized tribes were not subject to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's order, they closed their 23 casinos on March 22 due to Covid-19. Now, as Whitmer (l.)...

Published May 04, 2020

MTGA Misses Casino Debt Payment

The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, which owns the Mohegan Sun casino, missed it $19.7 million interest pay because of being forced to close by the pandemic. As a result,...

Published May 04, 2020

Hard Rock ‘Ramp-Up’ One Year Away

Hard Rock International Chairman Jim Allen recently said it will take a year for the company's casinos, hotels and restaurants to start "ramping back up" from being shut down...

Published May 04, 2020

Oklahoma Tribes Extend Casino Closures

Oklahoma casinos operated by the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw and Muscogee (Creek) nations will remain shuttered at least until May 15, tribal officials said, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The...

Published May 04, 2020

Tribal Subsidiary Manufactures PPE

Muskogee Technology, a business subsidiary of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, has started turning out a line of personal protective equipment (PPE) including sterile gowns to assist in...

Published April 27, 2020

Alabama Tribe Marks 35 Years of Hospitality

Wind Creek Hospitality, the gaming arm of the Alabama-based Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI), opened its first gaming facility in 1985. Today it owns 10 resorts around the...

Published April 27, 2020

Pacific Northwest Casinos Battered by Covid-19

The coronavirus shutdowns that forced many tribal casinos in the Pacific Northwest to close are also harming the non-tribal economies that depend on them. In March, Oregon’s Wild Horse...

Published April 27, 2020

Connecticut’s Tribal Casinos See ‘Sharp Declines’

Connecticut’s two tribal casinos have suffered “sharp declines” since they closed up shop more than a month ago. Right now, there’s no end in sight to the shutdown at...

Published April 27, 2020

Feds Approve Ho-Chunk Beloit Casino

The Ho-Chunk Nation got the go-ahead from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to build a $400 million casino resort in Beloit, Wisconsin—if Governor Tony Evers (l.) approves it after...

Published April 27, 2020

Tribes Line Up to Sue Over Covid-19 Relief

Several Indian tribes have filed suit to prevent any of the $8 billion in CARES Act funds set aside for tribes from going to Alaska’s Native corporations. They have...

Published April 27, 2020