Little River Band Casino Comment Period Extended

The Bureau of Indian Affairs extended the public comment period on the Little River Band’s proposed $180 million casino in Muskegon, Michigan. Ogema Larry Romanelli said three other tribes...

Published March 25, 2019

Seminole Compact Could Include Sports Betting

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano (l.), who negotiated the 2010 Seminole Compact, said a new compact could include sports betting, even though a constitutional amendment passed last November gives...

Published March 25, 2019

New Jersey Recognizes Two Native Tribes

New Jersey has restored official recognition for the Powhatan Renape Nation and the Ramapough Lenape Nation. The tribes charged that their recognition had been allowed to lapse under the...

Published March 25, 2019

Massachusetts Tribe Urges House to Fast-track Land Into Trust

A fast tracking of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act is being proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would put land into trust for the...

Published March 25, 2019

South Carolina Tribe Eyes North Carolina Site

The Catawba tribe in South Carolina applied in 2014 to have land in Kings Mountain, North Carolina taken into federal trust for a casino. But Congress could approve the...

Published March 25, 2019

Pechanga Expands Robot Security Force

The largest casino resort on the West Coast, Pechanga Resort Casino, is boldly going where no casino has gone before. It has deployed friendly robots on its property that...

Published March 18, 2019

Sycuan to Open First Casino Hotel

Two years after breaking ground the San Diego-county based Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation will soon open a $250 expansion. It will include a 300-room hotel, spa, fitness center...

Published March 18, 2019

Town Claims Tribe’s ‘Rights Not Without Limits’

While admitting that the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has won the right to build a casino on its reservation adjacent to the town of Aquinnah on Martha’s...

Published March 18, 2019

Berrey Reviews Arkansas Casino Project

The Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is taking shape, said Quapaw Tribe Chairman John Berrey. In a presentation, he said the $320 million project could generate $35...

Published March 18, 2019

Armed Dispute Again at Chukchansi Tribe

California’s Chukchansi tribe, owners of the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino (l.), has another potentially deadly dispute between tribal factions. Five years ago such a clash ended up closing...

Published March 18, 2019

More New Mexico Sports Books

Pojoaque Pueblo’s Buffalo Thunder Casino and Resort (l.) became the second casino in New Mexico to offer sports betting. This is just in time to take wagers for March...

Published March 18, 2019

Bill Would Create Lytton Tribal Homeland

A bill in Congress would put 500 acres into trust in Windsor for the Lytton Rancheria. The tribe would not be allowed to offer gaming there.

Published March 11, 2019

Palm Springs Casinos to Undergo Name Changes

The two casinos that the Agua Caliente Band in Palm Springs (Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa Rancho Mirage at left) operates will now have the same name: Agua Caliente....

Published March 11, 2019

Northwest Minnesota Tribe Trying to Recoup Casino Losses

The White Earth tribe of Minnesota last week began an investigation that would return up to $1 million of the nearly $6 million the tribe lost on its now-defunct...

Published March 11, 2019

Tribe Requests Sports Betting Bill

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently asked state Senator Jim Davis to introduce a measure legalizing sports betting at the tribe’s Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort (l.) and Harrah’s...

Published March 11, 2019

Illinois Tribal Casino Elicits Mixed Reactions

The Ho Chunk Nation, which operates six casinos in Wisconsin, is waiting for the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to move ahead on its Beloit casino (l.) application. The...

Published March 11, 2019

Texas Judge Rules Against Tiguas

The 20-plus-year legal battle between the Tigua Tribe and the state of Texas continued with a federal judge’s recent ruling that the games at the tribe’s Speaking Rock Entertainment...

Published March 11, 2019

Genting Stops Funding Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is no longer getting governmental support funds from the company that it partnered with to build the $1 billion First Light Resort and Casino. Nevertheless,...

Published March 11, 2019

Tule River Tribe to Relocate California Casino

Northern California’s Tule River Reservation has announced plans to relocate its Eagle Mountain Casino off of its hard-to-get-to reservation to near the Porterville airport. One thing it needs is...

Published March 4, 2019

Interior Department Denies Mashpee Accusations

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts has sued the Department of the Interior, claiming that it distorted facts in order to justify reversing its 2015 decision to put land...

Published March 4, 2019