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US Supreme Court will decide tribal casino’s land-into-trust scheme
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act represents one of the biggest failures of U.S. policy in the last fifty years. Passed by Congress in 1988 under the guise of “economic development” for the country’s impoverished Native American tribes, IGRA has resulted… Read more
“I would go to bed at night hoping the next day would be different … but it was never different.”
Sharon Oczkowski, a former bookkeeper at Eastern Star Home & Campus in Oriskany, New York, said in court Tuesday that the lure of gambling at the Turning Stone Resort Casino was too much for her, and she spent more than… Read more
Department of Interior goes off the reservation with latest decision
In a highly disappointing reversal of a prior decision, Larry Echo Hawk, the assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the Department of Interior, announced the rule preventing Native American casino tribes from opening casinos far from their reservations has been… Read more
The latest on the “Carcieri Fix” effort
Check out the important news report below from The Providence Journal: U.S. Senate to consider Indian tribe land trust bill A key Senate committee has voted unanimously to send to the full Senate a bill that would let the Narragansett… Read more
Native American tribes need to move beyond predatory businesses to make money
Robert Porter, president of the Seneca Nation of Indians based in New York state, told attendees at the Reservation Economic Summit organized by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development that tribes should go beyond tobacco and gambling to… Read more
Take five minutes to help stop predatory slots
Native American casinos have been a driving force behind the massive expansion of predatory gambling that has overwhelmed the U.S. over the last twenty years. It’s happened in large part because so-called “Class II” slot machines, often called “electronic bingo… Read more
Arizona House votes to allow Glendale to annex potential casino land away from Native American tribe
In what could be a signal of things to come for tribal casino interests in other states, the Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to allow the City of Glendale to annex 54 acres owned by the Tohono… Read more
Arizona fights against push for urban casino
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed a legal brief Friday in support of Glendale’s challenge to a federal decision to designate land near the city’s sports and entertainment district as an Indian reservation. The Tohono O’odham Nation plans to build a casino and… Read more
Governor-elect Cuomo must act against secret New York casino scheme
The New York Times reports that lame duck New York State Governor David Paterson is near an agreement with an out-of-state Indian tribe to build a full-scale casino in Sullivan County only 90 miles from Manhattan. As is typical with… Read more
The push for more tribal casinos continues
This news article by a pro-tribal casino media source provides a window into the swirling political winds involving the intense push for off-reservation Indian casinos. Casino interests are now the biggest spending political players in America – six out of ten… Read more
An Iceberg of Greed Sinking Foxwoods Casino
For more than ten years, Jeff Benedict has been one of the most articulate and politically astute leaders to stop predatory gambling in America. Today, he published a must read op-ed in The Hartford Courant about the dire situation facing… Read more
How you pay even if you do not play
The federal government has awarded $54 million to Connecticut’s politically well-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which operates one of the highest grossing casinos in the U.S. The Mohegan tribe, which owns the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., has been awarded… Read more
Casino interests continue to use Native American tribes to force their way into communities
The New York Times is reporting the Obama administration has approved the Shinnecock Indians on Long Island for federal recognition on Tuesday, culminating a court battle lasting three decades and paving the way for the tribe to build a casino… Read more