First Alaska Native Nominated to Head BIA

President Trump has nominated Alaska native and businesswoman Tara Mac Lean Sweeney (l.) to head the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, whose title is also Assistant Secretary for Indian...

Published October 23, 2017

Study Touts Tribal Gaming’s Economic Impact

A new study focuses on a state-by-state of the dynamic economic engine of Indian gaming in the U.S. The study, by Alan Meister, was commissioned by the American Gaming...

Published October 23, 2017

Tribes Reaction to Wildfires Wins Praise

Gaming tribes in Northern California behaved with courage and compassion as they helped firefighters battle fires that have consumed 100,000 acres and 5,700 homes—and provided shelter and assistance for...

Published October 23, 2017

Tribe, Interior, Sign Land buy Back Agreement

Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation has signed an agreement with the federal government enrolling it in a program that will allow it to buy back some...

Published October 23, 2017

Court Challenge to Elk Grove Casino Continues

A court challenge to the way that land was put into trust for California’s Wilton Rancheria earlier this year claims that the wrong federal official signed off on the...

Published October 23, 2017

Navajo President Asks Fix to Settlement Act Problems

The Navajo Nation is seeking support for HR 2402, which would fix some problems that were inadvertently created by the Navajo Hopi Settlement Act of 1974. Navajo Nation President...

Published October 23, 2017

S. Dakota Tribe Wins Partial Court Victory

A South Dakota tribe has won a case in which the state tried to impose a use tax on products sold at a tribal casino. But the victory by...

Published October 23, 2017

San Diego Casino Arms Race Reignites

The intense competition between the casinos in San Diego County is heating up again. Valley View Casino & Hotel and Pala Casino Resort & Spa (l.) have both begun...

Published October 23, 2017

Turning Stone, Boxing Hall Of Fame Form Partnership

Located 10 minutes apart, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York and Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona formed a partnership that will provide the Hall...

Published October 23, 2017

Minnesota Town Frets About Possible Indian Casino

Residents of Minnesota’s West Lakeland Township don’t believe the Prairie Island Indian Community when it says it doesn’t plan to build a casino on land that it purchased and...

Published October 23, 2017

Minnesota Tribal Chairman Seeks Secretary-Treasurer Removal

Political infighting in the White Earth Tribe, one of five tribes of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, has prompted the chairman of the tribe to seek removal of one of...

Published October 23, 2017

Washington Card Clubs Ask Tax Relief

The town of La Center, Washington, has lost two of the four card rooms that provided a large part of the city budget. The remaining two clubs are asking...

Published October 23, 2017

Meskwakis Investing In E-Cigarettes

The Meskwaki Nation in Iowa will open a 30,000 square foot factory in Tama to produce tribal branded cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes. Meskwaki Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hubble...

Published October 23, 2017

Sycamore Opens At Indigo Sky Casino

The $34 million Sycamore hotel tower recently opened at the Indigo Sky Casino in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, operated by the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. With 127 rooms, conference rooms, a ballroom...

Published October 23, 2017

Washington Tribe Announces Casino Resort Plans

The Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe of Washington has released plans for a multi-phase project that would add three hotel towers of the next ten years to its 7 Cedars Casino....

Published October 23, 2017

Paragon Casino Resort Announcers ‘Refresh’

Paragon Casino Resort (l.) in Marksville, Louisiana is undergoing a "refresh" to update the property and enhance the customer experience, officials said. Owned by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe and managed...

Published October 23, 2017

Ojibwa Casinos Face Construction Delays

Septic, electrical and other issues have delayed construction—and drive up costs by $33 million--at the Ojibwa Tribe's Baraga casino and Marquette Casino Convention Center in Michigan. Construction on both...

Published October 23, 2017

Osage Casino Sponsors XPO Game Festival

The second annual XPO Game Festival recently concluded in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sponsored by Osage Casino, the event attracted thousands of gamers, fans, developers and game industry leaders. Game developer...

Published October 23, 2017

Trump Administration Discouraging Off-Reservation Casinos

The Obama Administration overturned the old Bush Administration policy of requiring “commuting distance” between a tribe and land off the reservation that it wants to put into trust. The...

Published October 15, 2017

Court Decision May Affect Tribal Sovereignty

A decision last summer by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that a man accused of murder on Indian land should have been tried in a federal, not state,...

Published October 15, 2017