NIGC Seminar Recalls 30 Years of Indian Gaming

It has been 30 years since Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Acts. One of the actors created by that legislation, the National Indian Gaming Commission, celebrated the anniversary...

Published October 22, 2018

N.D. Tribes Would Collect Sales Tax Under Plan

Although they could benefit from collecting sales tax on their reservations, the tribes of North Dakota are wary of a proposed bill in the legislature. Their main problem with...

Published October 15, 2018

Idaho Prop. 1 Would Legalize Historical Horse Racing Machine

A controversial proposition on the November ballot in Idaho would authorize the racetracks in that state to deploy historical racing machines. Critic says this will open the state to...

Published October 15, 2018

Mixed Results in Arizona Gaming Revenues

Arizona casino profits fell slightly in 2016 but was more than offset by significant increases in the non-gaming elements of the casino properties. Together they created a final income...

Published October 15, 2018

Viejas Finishes Seven-Year Expansion

It took seven years but Viejas Casino and Resort in Southern California just finished a renovation and expansion project. Besides three new hotel towers, the property now boasts the...

Published October 15, 2018

Virginia’s Seven Tribes Recognized

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently hosted a celebration of Virginia's seven federally recognized tribes at Werowocomoco in Gloucester County, where Chief Powhatan and Captain John Smith met in...

Published October 15, 2018

Mashpees Consider Legal Avenues While Other Bidders Return

The rejection of the land-into-trust bid for the Wampanoag Mashpee tribe continues to reverberate as the tribe considers its legal options. A lawsuit has been launched to order the...

Published October 8, 2018

Indian Gaming Revenue Hits New Record

Alan Meister’s (l.) Indian Gaming Industry Report showed that in 2016, Indian gaming revenue rose for the seventh consecutive year to a record $31.5 billion, up 3.9 percent over...

Published October 8, 2018

Stockbridge-Munsee Appeals Ho-Chunk Ruling

Last year, a federal court judge ruled the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans waited too long to sue the Ho-Chunk Nation over expansion of its Wittenberg, Wisconsin casino, just 15...

Published October 8, 2018

Niagara Falls Awarded $12 Million for Lost SenecaPayments

Governor Andrew Cuomo (l.) released the badly needed funds as an advance against payments the governor says are rightfully the state’s from the Seneca Indian Nation’s three casinos. The...

Published October 8, 2018

Dallas Cowboys Name WinStar Official Casino

Since NFL team owners voted last August to allow casinos to advertise within certain limitations, the Dallas Cowboys named WinStar World Casino in Oklahoma its official casino sponsor and...

Published October 8, 2018

California Card Rooms on Notice About Banked Card Games

A memo was sent out last week by the California Bureau of Gambling Control warning state card rooms that self-banked card games like blackjack and baccarat will be under...

Published October 1, 2018

Brockton Casino Proponents Pressure MGC

Proponents of a casino proposal (l.) for the Brockton Fairgrounds in southeastern Massachusetts who were turned down by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission are asking for another bite at the...

Published October 1, 2018

Morongo Plans 800 Slots in Expansion

Southern California’s Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa has announced an expansion. The Riverside County casino will add 800 slots, a parking lot with 750 spaces and a new bar...

Published October 1, 2018

Arizona’s Talking Stick Casino Reopens After Storm

The Scottsdale, Arizona tribal casino Talking Stick Resort and Casino took six weeks of repairs to recover from a monsoon storm that knocked down the resorts electrical grid. It...

Published October 1, 2018

R.I. Lawmakers Oppose Mashpee Land Bill

Congressman David Cicilline (l.) and two U.S. senators from Rhode Island are opposing a bill in Congress that would make it possible for the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of neighboring...

Published October 1, 2018

Catawbas Await Word On North Carolina Casino

The Catawba Indian Nation based in South Carolina applied in 2014 to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take land into trust for a casino on ancestral lands in...

Published October 1, 2018

Comanches Versus Interior Department Hearings Start

Oral arguments began September 26 in the Comanche Nation's suit against the Secretary Ryan Zinke (l.) and the Interior Department. The Comanches claim the agency twisted the rules for...

Published October 1, 2018

Tribes Oppose Idaho’s Prop. 1

Idaho’s gaming tribes have forged an alliance of tribes, unions, small business, church groups and ranchers to oppose Prop. 1. The proposition would allow the state’s racetracks to add...

Published October 1, 2018

Tule River Tribe Begins Relocating Casino

Northern California’s Tule River Tribe just published the environmental impact statement for its proposal to build an off-reservation casino near Porterville Airport, 20 miles from its reservation. It wants...

Published October 1, 2018