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California Dreamin’

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This tribal divide over online gaming has been most apparent in California, pitting some of the most important players in Indian gaming against each other. The Morongo tribe of Cabazon has spearheaded a drive that would legalize online poker in California, using the argument that if tribes don’t get involved at the very beginning of any online gaming discussion in the Golden State, they risk getting left behind.

The tribe did the unthinkable of partnering with some of California’s card clubs, usually the sworn enemy of Indian gaming.
   
Other tribes, led by the Palas, want to maintain the illegal status of online gaming, fearful that if it was to become legal, visits to the somewhat remote Indian gaming halls would plunge. The majority of the tribes hold this view, and an effort by the Morongos and the card clubs to establish the California Online Poker Association (COPA) with an accompanying play-for-free site was short lived.
   
COPA was formed to support a bill introduced by California Senator Rod Wright to legalize online poker. While the measure failed in the 2012 legislature, it is back this year, with some changes that address the concerns that some tribes had, but leave some of the objectionable issues intact.

Bill Details

Some of the provisions of Wright’s 2013 bill (SB 51) include:

• Legalizes only internet poker (Wright’s 2012 bill included other casino games) and only poker games approved by the state Department of Justice;

• A five-year license, with a $5 million licensing fee that covers investigations and suitability review, with additional fees determined for regulatory costs;

• A one-time $30 million deposit into the general fund which will be credited toward a 10 percent tax on gross revenues;

• Gaming tribes with casinos operating for three years or more, racetracks, card rooms and account deposit wagering companies (ADWs) in good standing are all eligible for licensing;

• Excludes non-gaming (non-compacted) tribes;

• Provides that internet poker does not violate the California Constitution, nor does it violate tribal exclusivity guaranteed under the state Indian gaming law and compacts;

• Requires investigations of all applicants, including tribes;

• Requires tribes to waive tribal sovereignty for licensing investigations and patron disputes;

• Regulatory power rests with state Gambling Control Commission;

• Prohibits “aggregation” of computers for internet poker play (bans internet cafés);

• Players must be located in state and be over 21, in order to qualify for the state waivers under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA);

• Prohibits companies that accepted bets in the U.S. after the passage of UIGEA from participating in California online poker;

• Provides a long list of responsible gaming provisions that each online poker room must comply with;

• Requires winning players to declare their profits for tax purposes.

Pros and Cons

At the Western Indian Gaming Conference (WIGC) at the Morongo Casino Hotel in February, Morongo Band of Mission Indians Chairman Robert Martin explained why he continues to support a bill that would legalize online poker in California. Martin said the Morongo Band was behind an effort to organize pro-online gaming tribes and the card rooms in the California Online Poker Association, a group that disbanded following the failure of Wright’s 2012 bill.

“When I was serving on the Morongo tribal council 26 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Cabazon case, transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans,” he explained. “That effort was not without controversy. We took some grief and criticism from public officials, the media and some other tribes. It all proved to be worthwhile and it was the right thing to do at the right time.

“We’re at another crossroads today. The internet has revolutionized every industry it touched, and gaming is no different. Online gaming is growing at five times the rate of land-based gaming. Tribes must be open to change and be able to adapt to the marketplace if we are to remain relevant. Pursuing internet poker doesn’t mean we are abandoning our bricks-and-mortar casinos.”

Leslie Lohse, the vice chairwoman of the California Tribal Business Alliance, an organization made up of tribes that opposed COPA’s path to online poker, says Wright’s new bill hasn’t changed enough to satisfy the tribes concerned about online gaming.

“So far, his language has not addressed the issues we raised,” she says. “The bill still rejects our sovereignty and doesn’t talk about what happens if our revenue streams from the bricks-and-mortar facilities fall. They keep telling us it will not affect us, but we have not seen any proof.”

George Forman, the managing partner with the law firm Forman & Associates, presented the case for and against Wright’s bill at the WIGC.

While he found many things in the bill acceptable to tribes, the only avenue for tribes to avoid investigations into their tribal gaming operations would be to set up a commercial company, an LLC. He also complained that the bill does not recognize existing licensees and tribes, and wondered why they should be charged an exorbitantly high $5 million fee for investigations that have for the most part been completed or are not necessary.

Martin said there will always be differences among state tribes, but there has to be some negotiation to get a general concensus.

“There is no one-size-fits-all solution to this issue in California,” he says. “While the legislature would like to put us all in one box, it just doesn’t work. There are more than 100 tribes in California. It’s unlikely that we’ll all agree completely on any issue.”

Lohse was encouraged when COPA was disbanded, and hopes that the two sides can meet in the middle.

“To their credit, they’re now considering what we have to say,” Lohse explains. “We’re not talking about totally opposing any kind of online gaming; we’re just concerned about the negative impacts that might occur to our businesses and our sovereignty. We hope we can open some dialogue with the other tribes without the involvement of card rooms, racetracks or ADWs, so we can look at it more collectively.

“We’re trying to start with things that we all agree upon and work up to the tougher issues. We’re hopeful we can get the tribes together on the same page, as much as that’s possible.”

Martin says the tribe can’t simply ignore what is happening.

“Tribes must have a voice in how internet gaming is developed,” he says. “If we don’t, others will. We don’t want to look back 25 years from now with regret if we let this opportunity pass.”

Lohse isn’t ready to ignore the bill, but wants to take it slow and address issues that tribes have with the bill.

“We have a monopoly here in California with regards to gaming,” she says, “and I haven’t seen anything yet that would fully protect what we have today. It’s going to be difficult to come up with any bill that would address all the concerns that we have.”

Tribal Turmoil

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The issue of online gaming has split land-based casinos into separate camps. Whether Native American or commercial, the existing bricks-and-mortar casinos haven’t kept up with the pace of development of online gaming in other countries.

In Europe, where online gaming is legal and thriving, the existing casinos have felt a small impact. Ron Goudsmit, the president of the European Casino Association, has been quoted that revenues for his member casinos slipped 5 percent since the advent of legal online gaming across Europe. But the land-based casinos of Europe aren’t of the size and scope found in the United States, so a small revenue drop is hardly noticeable. In the U.S., it could be significant.

Commercial casinos that are members of the American Gaming Association had been opposed to online gaming since a position was first taken early in the first decade of the 21st century. But that changed in 2011, when the AGA shifted its position to support a bill that would have legalized online poker at the federal level. While not all members supported the bill, it was an option that most of the larger companies could at least tolerate, if not capitalize on.
   
But efforts in Congress to legalize online gaming have fallen short. In each of the last two sessions, online gaming bills either were not even introduced or simply ignored. Cursory hearings in the House did not clarify anything. Even after a letter from the Department of Justice released in late 2011 that offered a new opinion on the Wire Act (that the only online gambling strictly prohibited is sports betting), Congress was not motivated to act.
   
So, some states got into the game first. Delaware has legalized full-blown online gaming (minus sports betting) and Nevada approved online poker. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently approved a bill that legalizes online gaming in the Garden State, with Atlantic City casinos the home of the servers and site of the wagers.
   
So even though online gaming has been ignored by Congress, it is alive and well in the states.

Two Sides

There are essentially two arguments that land-based casino operators make about online gaming.

The defense of legal online gaming goes like this: Online gaming is already occurring in the U.S. The “Black Friday” busts of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, among other sites, proved that millions of Americans were utilizing sites that the U.S. government considered illegal, under the Wire Act and the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). So whether the government likes it or not, or tries to enforce it or not, millions of dollars are being transferred into the accounts of offshore online gaming sites, mostly poker and sports betting. To try to shut it down would be trying to stick your finger in a dyke.

The groups that want to continue the ban on online poker/gaming contend that any legalization will open the floodgates, and millions more Americans will flock to the online casinos, making visits to casinos less frequently and probably spending much of their disposable income on those websites. They want the government to tighten the screws on illegal offshore gaming sites. They point to the reaction of players after the Black Friday sites were shut down, which halted much online wagering for a time. But that wagering has since picked up to pre-Black Friday levels.

The pro group says that legalizing online poker, which has a limited appeal to a smaller group of players, would not impact the larger full-casino games player, who would not decrease visits to land-based casinos.

But the anti group says any foot in the door will open it wide, and the player who wants to play all the casino games will find a way to do so.

 
Tribal Tussle

This argument is especially fierce among Native American gaming tribes. Largely located in rural areas that depend upon people driving to their facilities, many tribes fear that online gaming would simply allow their customers to stay home and gamble. And also in many cases, tribes have a monopoly on casino gaming in the states where they are located, and see any incursion by online gaming into their markets as a threat to their compacts and to tribal sovereignty.

Other tribes who subscribe to the pro-online gaming divide are more realistic. They believe online gaming is inevitable, and unless tribes get their foot in the door now and play a role in its legalization, the consequences can be grave.

John Tahsuda, a former Senate Indian Affairs staffer and now a principal with Washington, D.C.-based Navigators Global, says tribes are leery about giving up what they already have.

“There is still not a level of comfort of how this potential industry might work,” he says. “When they were starting out in gaming, they didn’t really understand how that would work either, but they had nothing to lose. So they just plunged along at full speed and made some mistakes along the way. But there was nothing to lose.”

With success now in gaming, tribes are uncertain how online gaming would work in a tribal gaming setting.

“They’re concerned about how it would affect the bricks-and-mortar casinos,” he says. “Some don’t believe it would hurt, but a majority of tribal leaders haven’t reached the point where they are willing to support it wholeheartedly.”

Jana McKeag, a former member of the National Indian Gaming Commission and now a lobbyist with Lowry Strategies, says that while tribes haven’t been paying attention to the issue, recent developments have made it crucial.

“When the December DOJ letter came out, that should have been a warning for tribes,” she says. “They have to realize that if they don’t get involved in this, the states and the lotteries will dominate the internet gaming space.”

 

Tribal Strategy

Up until a bill failed to be even introduced in the 2012 Senate, the National Indian Gaming Association claimed to be following the progress of any measure.

“There was really no reason to get too excited,” said Jason Giles, the executive director of NIGA, at the American Bar Assocation’s “Gaming Law Minefield” conference in Las Vegas in February. “We were assured it wasn’t going to go anywhere, so we weren’t too worried about it.”

As in all issues, NIGA tries to reach a consensus with tribes. But because of the divisiveness of the online issue, it was a difficult task. But there were a series of points upon which all tribes agreed, that became NIGA’s statement of principles on the issue (see bottom).

Tahsuda says the statement doesn’t say too much.

“The NIGA principles are very broad, so it’s almost impossible to find someone who doesn’t agree with them,” he said.

And McKeag says the generalities of the NIGA statement “make it hard to convert into legislative language.”

One source told Global Gaming Business that tribes don’t understand what they are facing.

“Overall, most of Indian gaming is not engaged in the issue,” the source said. “When I’ve met with Senate and House staffers about this issue, they tell me that no one had talked to them about online gaming and tribes.”

But with the opportunity slipping away in 2012, the new Congress doesn’t seem to be much interested in online gaming. Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ally on the issue, retired at the end of the term, as did the House champion, Massachusetts’ Barney Frank.

“The loss of Senator Kyl is a big problem,” says Tahsuda. “He had an appreciation for the difficulty in regulating and the law enforcement side of online poker. He was able to get more Republican members on board. I don’t see anyone replacing that skill set.

“And without Barney Frank on the House side, it’s uncertain who will pick up the mantle. No one else was as outspoken as he was. And when you take away the incentive of online poker being a revenue generator, which is what would have happened under a Reid-Kyl bill, it allows the negative perceptions of online gaming to take over.”

McKeag agrees.

“No one knows what is going to happen, either on the commercial or tribal side,” she says. “With Kyl gone, there is no champion on the Republican side.”

While Leslie Lohse, vice chairwoman of the California Tribal Business Alliance, breathed a sigh of relief when the bill failed, she is leery of something else coming up.

“It would be difficult to find any bill that would address all the concerns that we have,” she said, adding that they want to be part of any process, however.

State Direction

With no federal bill on the horizon, the states have been quick to act. This creates a special problem for tribes because of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and tribal-state compacts.

“There’s an ever-shifting legal landscape to contend with as well,” says Tahsuda. “Will it be the feds that control it or are the states going to be in the driver’s seat? What will be the tribal role in any case? It’s hard to get your arms around the industry without knowing that.”

McKeag says the current process in the states is worrisome for tribes and all other aspects of the gaming industry.

“It’s a huge problem for their bricks-and-mortar casinos,” she contends. “This is going to have a big impact, not just on tribal casinos, but on commercial casinos as well. It opens a huge Pandora’s Box, and once you see one big state legalize it, there’s going to be a rush to get involved. And by that time, it might be too late for the tribes.”

Tahsuda also points out that the disparity already between the states that have legalized or are considering legalization is an issue.

“There’s some question about the kinds of games, what player pool you can access and how successful it is going to be,” he says. “All those unknowns make tribes uncomfortable.”

Lohse says tribes are more comfortable with poker only. Even commercial casino companies are a little leery of the full online gaming concept.

“Are we talking about online poker or online gaming?” she asks. “We’d be more opposed to online gaming, but want to be sure that if we approve online poker, it’s not the camel’s nose under the tent.”

McKeag agrees about the scope of the games.

“Tribes would be OK with poker because they believe it won’t harm them too much,” she says. “The wide range of games would be a problem.”

Other clauses in the leaked Reid-Kyl bill were also a problem.

“There were definitely some issues in the opt-in/opt-out clause (which allows individual states to decide if they wanted to participate in a federal poker bill),” she says. “It wasn’t explained very clearly how that would affect tribes. And it also seemed to be very slanted toward Nevada. There just wasn’t full consideration of what it would do to tribes.”

The big problem for tribes, in both a federal and state-by-state scenario, is a possible reopening of the IGRA law. As stated in the NIGA principles, that would be a game-changer, for while tribes have never been completely happy with IGRA—to this day, some call it a severe attack on tribal sovereignty—tribes don’t want its beneficial elements reduced or changed in any way.

One source told GGB that there is little doubt that IGRA will come into play under any federal bill.

“It’s going to be difficult to get Congress to consider crafting some kind of bill that would include tribal gaming options without opening up IGRA,” he said.

Lohse agrees that it “definitely brings IGRA into play.”

Tahsuda points to the difficulties that a federal bill might cause the compacting process.

“It will be interesting to see what happens in states where tribal gaming is part of the state economy,” he says. “There are a lot of questions and lawyers are all over the map on this. Does internet gaming violate state compacts? What happens if the lottery offers it rather than private companies? Tribes will have to take this head-on within their states.”

Indeed, the lottery involvement was one that the casino industry overlooked, even though the 2011 DOJ memo was specifically written to allow lotteries to sell tickets online within a state.

“The big secret is the involvement of the lotteries,” says McKeag. “They have a good message because they want to bring revenues to their states. And the lotteries are playing it low-key and will corner the market. If tribes don’t pay attention to this, they’re going to blink and the next thing you know it’s going to be over, and it will really harm this industry.”

Another issue is how tribal online gaming would be regulated. Under the Reid-Kyl bill, the Department of Commerce would be the regulatory body, with licensing duties held by the Nevada authorities. This isn’t a winning formula for tribes. Most would prefer the National Indian Gaming Commission to expand its role over land-based tribal gaming to the internet. But NIGC Chairwoman Tracie Stevens has declined to comment on the proposal because, she says, there is no bill that outlines the NIGC responsibilities in that area. Lohse says that response doesn’t help move the issue forward.

“NIGC has been close mouthed about what their role would be,” she says. “They have experience in Indian gaming, and I would hope that they would be useful in online gaming. We don’t want the IRS or Commerce Department involved in online gaming.

“It’s not helpful to us, but I can understand they don’t want to box themselves in to any specific predetermined role.”

McKeag says the tribes would definitely prefer NIGC involvement, but she believes it can be overcome.

“There’s also the argument that the Department of Commerce, which is the designated regulatory body under a federal online gaming bill, doesn’t understand the tribes,” she says. “But the fact is that tribes are involved with every federal agency, including Commerce.”

Model For Success

Without opening up IGRA at the federal level and clearly defining the roles of tribes in any nationwide online gaming industry, the way forward for tribes in the new reality of state-by-state legalization is hazy.

In Connecticut, where the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans have been preparing for online gaming for several years now, the model is clear, and is consistent with the participation of commercial casinos in a possible legalization in New Jersey. After the state approves a measure to go forward, the servers would be located within the casinos permitted to conduct online gaming, thereby asserting that the betting is still being done within the casinos.

At February’s Western Indian Gaming Conference in California, George Forman, a managing partner with Forman & Associates, contended that scenario is legally defensible.

“When is a bet a bet?” he asked. “A bet is a bet when and where it is accepted. You can bet all you want from your home computer, but it’s not a bet until it is accepted at the site where the server is located. So the wagering actually takes place on Indian land,” in the case of servers at tribal casinos.

Other speakers at the conference urged California tribes to immediately begin offering online poker—considered a Class II game—because tribes have the unlimited right to offer Class II gaming on their reservations.

All agree, however, that should that happen, there will be multiple lawsuits and the measure would become bogged down in the courts, possibly for years.

But California is an anomaly for most tribes. As the most populous state, it has a built-in online gaming market. By some accounts, the state held as much as one-third of the market for illegal online gaming before the UIGEA was passed in 2006. Most states are far smaller and don’t have the benefits that California tribes will enjoy when online gaming gets under way.

The answer, according to some, is to pool resources. Tahsuda points to a Midwestern coalition that wants to create a poker room benefitting multiple tribes.

“This makes sense purely for the economics of it,” he says. “You can share the costs. And depending upon how it moves forward, there can be some joint coalition presence just to counter the larger presence in the market, especially the lotteries.”

One source, who asked not to be identified, says NIGA needs to take the lead on this issue.

“NIGA’s strategy was to issue their principles and the Senate would reach out to them to incorporate their principles in any bill,” he says. “That is not likely to happen.

“NIGA should really be promoting a federal bill because that’s the only way to protect the tribes. If they don’t get a bill through fairly soon, the lotteries will dominate, and that will prevent any federal legislation.”

NIGA’s Online Gaming Principles

• Indian tribes are sovereign governments with a right to operate, regulate, tax, and license internet gaming, and those rights must not be subordinated to any nonfederal authority;

• Internet gaming authorized by Indian tribes must be available to customers in any locale where internet gaming is not criminally prohibited;

• Consistent with longheld federal law and policy, tribal revenues must not be subject to tax;

• Existing tribal government rights under tribal-state compacts and IGRA must be respected;

• The legislation must not open up the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act for amendments;

• Federal legalization of internet gaming must provide positive economic benefits for Indian Country.


Turning Over a New Leaf

Posted on March 12, 2013 by -

Holding the line on revenue sharing in tribal-state casino compacts and helping American Indian governments restore ancestral lands will continue to be priorities for the U.S. Department of Interior in President Barack Obama’s second term, current and former federal officials say.

DOI policy under Obama “is based upon principles that tribes must have an adequate land base to develop their economies,” says attorney Bryan Newland, policy adviser to Larry Echo Hawk, Obama’s initial appointee as assistant secretary for Indian affairs.

Newland, a citizen of Michigan’s Bay Mills Indian Community who left federal service to enter private practice, says DOI and its Bureau of Indian Affairs under Obama “operates on the belief tribes should exercise control over their own lands.”

Sovereign Land

So it was no surprise last October that Kevin Washburn’s first act as successor to Echo Hawk was to reject a draft compact between Massachusetts and the Mashpee Wampanoag that infringed on tribal authority and called for a 21.5 percent state share of casino revenues.

Washburn’s tribal gambling mantra for the next four years as head of the BIA is apparently written in the congressional intent of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

Gambling under IGRA, according to the legislation, is to serve as “a means of promoting tribal economic development, self-sufficiency and strong tribal governments.”

That means the $27 billion that annually flows from 460 tribal casinos should not be onerously shared with states, counties and municipalities.

“Interior has an important role to play ensuring that gaming remains primarily a tribal asset,” says Washburn, an Oklahoma Chickasaw and former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law.

It’s also crucial that tribal-state compacts not stray beyond the scope and regulation of gambling. The Mashpee agreement included hunting and fishing rights and other items that encroach on tribal jurisdiction over Indian lands.

“The law fairly strongly determines what can be negotiated between states and tribes,” Washburn says. “States should not be able to use gaming and a compact as a stalking horse to deal with tribal water rights, land claims and things of that nature. Congress did not authorize that. A compact is supposed to be primarily about gaming.”

Perhaps most important is Interior’s commitment to assist tribes seeking trust lands—not so much for gambling, but largely for infrastructure, homes, schools, clinics and economic development.

Unclogging a Bush administration moratorium on land/trust petitions, Interior in three years processed 1,041 applications involving nearly 100,000 acres. Eleven applications involved casinos.

Interior accomplished that goal despite constraints imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Carcieri v. Salazar, ruling Interior could not place land in trust for tribes not “under federal jurisdiction” with passage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.

So Long Salazar

Much of the renewed federal focus on tribes began with Obama appointee Ken Salazar as Interior secretary.

And it hasn’t hurt that Obama has been the recipient of Indian largesse. Tribes contributed more than $2.5 million to the 2012 Obama campaign, according to the Center for Responsible Politics, far exceeding previous presidential elections. Republican Mitt Romney got $750,000.

Tribes made great strides in Obama’s first term. Along with land/trust and revenue sharing matters, the administration settled Cobell trust litigation, permanently reauthorized health care legislation, settled several water rights matters and streamlined the tribal land leasing process.

“I’ve never seen a commitment like this from an administration,” says Larry Rosenthal, partner in IETAN, a Washington government relations firm.

“Secretary Salazar will be remembered as one of the most forceful allies of Indian Country to have occupied the position,” Newland says.

Salazar is retiring, but tribes are hopeful Interior’s policy direction will continue under REI executive Sally Jewell, Obama’s nominee to fill Salazar’s seat. In any event, the DOI secretary normally relegates indigenous issues to the BIA, now headed by Washburn.

“NCAI welcomes the news that the Obama administration has moved quickly to nominate an innovative leader to continue the momentum of the Department of the Interior achieved under Secretary Salazar,” the National Congress of American Indians said in a statement.

“If the Senate confirms Miss Jewell we will be very excited to work with her,” Washburn says. “We’re specifically excited about her experience with Indian tribes.”

Haves And Have-Nots

The Bush administration land/trust logjam was alleviated when Salazar streamlined DOI’s administrative process, delegating final action on non-gaming applications to Interior’s eight regional offices.

“It was basically boring stuff that makes government work well,” Newland says of the administrative changes. “Sending stuff back out to the regional directors, revising the fee-to-trust handbook; there were some environmental review procedures that were rolled back.

 “We put processing fee-to-trust applications in the performance standards for regional directors. We held them accountable for completing review of the applications.”

But failure to get a congressional fix to the Carcieri decision continues to pose hardships for the agency, requiring that trust applications undergo a legal analysis by Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins, a Navajo, or her regional counterparts.

Reviews surround the legal definition of “under federal jurisdiction.” Of 366 federal recognized tribes in the lower 48 states, about 50 received recognition after 1934.

“We have been careful to consider that issue with virtually every land-into-trust decision,” Washburn says. “At a minimum it means we’ve had analysis from the solicitor’s office, sometimes a full-blown opinion. Obviously it has added quite a bit of work to our solicitor.

“There are easy cases where everybody knows the tribe was under federal jurisdiction in 1934. And there are tribes where it is a little more complicated. We’re processing land into trust for some tribes and not at all for others.

“We think it’s a matter of simple justice, really, that every tribe has access. We are all equal and we all should have the right to restore our homelands.

“We don’t disapprove many of these. You won’t find a whole lot of decisions from us saying, ‘No, this is rejected because of the Carcieri analysis.’”

Washburn has also proposed eliminating a 30-day review on placing land in trust, a response to a Supreme Court ruling giving persons six years to legally contest land/trust actions.


Gambling Land/Trust

In rescinding the infamous Bush-era “commutability memo,” Salazar lifted what was essentially a moratorium on gambling land/trust applications. 

The applications included not only existing tribes, but newly recognized, restored and landless tribes as well as federal land claims.

IGRA generally limits casinos to tribes recognized when the act was passed in 1988. Tribes seeking casinos on new lands off existing reservations are required to go through a “two-part determination” in Section 20 of the act.

The “two-part determination” requires approval from state governors and a discretionary—and often controversial—finding that the project benefits a tribe and is not “deemed detrimental” to nearby indigenous and non-Indian communities.

Salazar also demanded that the BIA move on “equal footing” exceptions for newly recognized and restored tribes not federally recognized when the act was passed and seeking gambling on “initial reservations.” There were also tribes acquiring land through claims against the federal government for lost acreage.

“These decisions often raise difficult and contentious issues among the parties involved,” Echo Hawk said when Salazar issued his directive.

Echo Hawk is a master of the understatement. Off-reservation gambling has generated opposition from states, local governments and even tribes angry that new casinos were encroaching on ancestral lands and casino markets.

Although “equal footing” applications do not require state approvals, environmental impact studies are extensive.

“Communities are affected by gaming operations,” Washburn says. “We certainly think the local voice is important, whether it be from the city, county or local community groups.”

There are 21 applications pending at Interior from tribes seeking land for casinos. Many off-reservation proposals have been resubmitted since Salazar rescinded the “commutability memo.” California and Oklahoma each have five of the applicants and Wisconsin has three.

“One area that has been very controversial, has generated much litigation, and could use some clarification, has been the process of placing off-reservation fee land into trust for the purpose of gaming,” writes Alexander Skibine, University of Utah law professor and onetime counsel to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

“Unfortunately, much of this litigation has involved tribes against other tribes.”

Tribal Competition

Ancestral lands and potential encroachment are a part of Interior’s analysis of gambling on newly acquired lands. But in many cases the issue is competition.

“I wish all tribes would hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya,’” Washburn says. “Each tribal leader has, I hope, an interest in looking out for the benefit of all tribes.

“But tribal leaders also have the responsibility—first and foremost—to protect their own communities, their market share and their ancestral lands.”

Expanded tribal gambling has generated opposition from such influential lawmakers as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and John McCain (R-Arizona), the latter angry that a Tohono O’odham land claim threatens to bring off-reservation gambling to the Phoenix area.

Feinstein, McCain and others are demanding IGRA amendments to Section 20 exceptions. They blocked congressional efforts last year to remedy Carcieri, angering tribal leaders who contend the land/trust process is more about economic and social progress than gambling.

“Carcieri is really about tribes recovering and restoring our homelands. This is not about gaming,” says Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and Washington Indian Gaming Association.

“My concern is Interior should treat all tribes equally,” says Allen, who also serves as treasurer for the National Congress of American Indians. “It currently doesn’t. To the credit of Interior and the BIA, they have moved the agenda forward with respect to the way the courts have interpreted Carcieri.”

The greatest victims of the controversy may be many of the 352 indigenous groups who since 1978 have sought official recognition, according to Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgment.

DOI and Congress have ruled on 73 of the cases, nine are under investigation, five are awaiting a judgment and five others are in litigation.

The lengthy, expensive and complex recognition process has been seriously muddled, with policymakers often suspicious that gambling is the motive behind the petitions. To be sure, many applicants are being financed by potential casino developers.

Generating nearly four times combined federal appropriations for the BIA ($2.54 billion) and Indian Health Service ($4.3 billion), gambling has hijacked federal Indian policy, complicating land/trust, labor and tax issues and delaying congressional action on health care, housing, law enforcement and, of course, Carcieri.

“Gaming is the big gorilla in the room in any discussion of Indian policy, which is sometimes a shame because gaming is not the most important activity that tribes do by any means,” Washburn told GamblingCompliance.com.

Putting The Kibosh On Revenue Sharing

In the 25 years since IGRA, tribes have often complained that states were engaging in extortion, demanding Indian governments share gambling revenues in exchange for tribal-state compacts required to operate Class III, Las Vegas-style casinos.

IGRA generally prohibits taxation of tribal casino revenues, but allows for exceptions if states give tribes a “benefit,” often statewide or regional exclusivity to operate casinos. Tribes have had little recourse as the 11th Amendment prevents tribes from suing states suspected of “bad faith” negotiations.

Of the 28 states with tribal casinos, 10 require some form of revenue sharing.

George Skibine, former head of the BIA Office of Indian Gaming, says proposed compacts with onerous revenue sharing components were often “deemed approved” during the Bush administration, meaning the agency took no action and allowed agreements to go into effect.

“There were a lot of deemed approvals,” Skibine says, under the guise that if the tribes and states agree to the compacts, “who are we to object?”

Perhaps the most blatant “extortion” of tribes was in California, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (2003-2011) demanded Indian governments pay their “fair share” in helping alleviate a state deficit.

Sitting down with tribes to hash out new and renegotiated compacts, Schwarzenegger demanded general fund payments in exchange for allowing tribes to exceed a 2,000-slot machine limit in 1999 agreements. Fourteen tribes now pay $345 million a year to the general fund.

California tribal exclusivity, however, is vested not in compacts, but an amendment to the state constitution.

Unfortunately for Schwarzenegger, the state waived its 11th Amendment protections.

The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians near San Diego last year won a nearly decade-long legal battle when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Schwarzenegger acted in bad faith by demanding general fund payments in exchange for the additional slot machines.

The ruling, upheld when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the matter on appeal, noted that the payments were in violation of IGRA tax prohibitions.

“Someone had to make the state own up to the fact its negotiations with tribes were illegal,” Rincon Chairman Bo Mazzetti says. “We fought this battle for all tribes.”

Newland says the Rincon decision “was a vindication of the standards that were already in place” when Echo Hawk rescinded the commutability memo.

Determining the revenue sharing value of statewide or regional exclusivity is now done “on a case-by-case basis,” Washburn says.

But Washburn, a former U.S. prosecutor and counsel to the National Indian Gambling Commission, has mixed emotions about federal involvement in compact negotiations.

“We try to give tribes and states the room to negotiate in a certain space and we will generally defer to their negotiations, at least until the state revenue share amount makes us gag,” he says.

“I personally haven’t been working on these decisions long enough to be able to state a real clear, bright line,” Washburn says. “In the end Indian gaming must primarily benefit tribes, not states or other outsiders.”

Although Washburn rejected the Mashpee compact (“We didn’t feel like we had a whole lot of choices there.”), he hopes in the future to encourage tribal/state partnerships on gambling issues.

“If the state and the tribe have worked hard together to come up with an agreement, it really does, sometimes, seem paternalistic to disapprove that agreement,” he say. It’s a beautiful thing when a tribe and a state can work through their difficulties and come up with an agreement.

“But we do have a law we have to follow.”

Renovate, Restore, Rebuild

Posted on March 12, 2013 by -

Tribal gaming is entering a unique crossroads. Three prosperous decades have lured abundant competition and sparked the need to revamp.

This is a logical path. Tribal gaming strength speaks volumes, with estimated revenues approaching $28 billion. Disciplined self-financing helped tribes withstand the freefall of the Great Recession far better than non-native properties over the past five years. And some tribes have purchased land outside their reservations, hoping to survive court battles or work with municipalities to build more competitive casinos.

On the flip side, saturation lurks. There are approximately 400 casinos operated by tribes in the United States. Blended with non-native properties, competition continually sharpens. Online poker, off-track betting, sports betting and state lotteries all bid for the attention of the bettor.

Go ahead, find the rare, non-congested market. It’s almost impossible to do.

Nobody should stand pat, but what’s the smart choice between renovation and building new? Does one plan for several years or for just a couple?

Several renowned architects and engineers, with longtime ties to Indian gaming, have weighed in. They outline the best bang for the building buck.

Amenities: The Chief Argument

Thalden Boyd Emery principal Chief Boyd knows what works in Indian Country.

With more than 50 years of architectural experience, Boyd has a unique insight to numerous tribal entities, including his own, the Cherokees. Many of them unfold in Oklahoma, where Thalden Boyd Emery has a Tulsa branch. Boyd considers garages, RV parks, theaters and rooms excellent returns on investment, while golf courses often under-achieve.

“The tribes have a good sense of what they are building and the business reasons behind it,” he says. “You get this expansion and refurbishing question all the time in Oklahoma, where you have over 100 casinos. We have one spot in northeast Oklahoma which is the 13th casino within a 20-minute drive.

“We get asked by customers, ‘When are you going to stop building?’ The answer is ‘when they stop donating to the tribe,’” he laughs.

Boyd helps tribes understand the amenity pecking order. He says parking garages have an excellent payback period of just over a year, even without charging customers. The garage may cost $10,000 per space. Boyd estimates the average space contributes $22 a day to the floor. In one year, that spot has returned 74 percent of its building cost. Early in year two, the parking space now constitutes profit. Even a moderate-sized, 100-car garage contributes handsomely to the bottom line by year two.

Given the low cost of construction, the garage is the key amenity player. But RV parks in Indian Country come in a strong second. Boyd indicates that each space may cost an average of $15,000 to build, but operators can charge for it and recapture $10,000 a year. Each spot also delivers to the bottom line by the second year. That doesn’t even include what the customer drops inside the casino.

Hotel rooms also play a strong role. When occupied, they pay down the cost of construction. If empty, they can be used to lure players into extending their stay. Players not only remain on property, but have been psychologically massaged by the freebie. Boyd says new hotel rooms pay for themselves within two years.

Movie theaters? They may average $6,000 per seat to construct, but daily revenue will produce a break-even point in just over two years. Then, it’s all cinematic “cha-ching.”

Golf courses, however, are overrated. Boyd indicates the average facility costs $7 million to construct. Then, it must be staffed and maintained. The costs of water and electricity are staggering in this area, and the course only operates during daylight. It is hampered by significant downtime.

It may take a couple decades to recoup the price of this “going green” amenity. Operators must decide whether their goals are short-term, as in return on investment, or long term, to drive an image of splendor, magnificence, etc.

Cuningham Displays Versatility

Minnesota-based Cuningham Group, which has risen alongside Indian gaming since the early 1990s, embodies the amenity concept from several directions. It has orchestrated large-scale endeavors like the $650 million re-creation of the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in North Carolina. It also worked mid-sized expansions in the $100 million-$150 million range via a new hotel tower for the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a resort hotel and convention center for the Isleta Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Cuningham principal Tom Hoskens offers his own rating of amenities, which is tied to important points. One is the concept of periodic refurbishing. This is the engine that drives the entire financial resort.

“What I think is trending is the idea of breaking out of the box,” he says. “You have ended up with a lot of casinos that seem very regimented, like they were laid out by a drill sergeant. It bores people on end. It’s an excellent idea to change the amenities.”

Sometimes, a tweak works wonders.

“There are a lot of different ways to do that, and most of the time it depends on the competition around a property,” he says. “I like to see pieces of it every year. This takes care of your customer who comes there continually. You always want to be giving that customer a little excitement. That customer likes to think you are always looking to improve the facility for him. You can change out the carpets, or do something with the pathways around you.”

Like Boyd, Hoskens advances the concept of covered garages near the property. They are inexpensive to build and maintain, and, because they are free, they give customers their first comp before leaving their vehicles. The garage must constitute easy walking distance to the casino and be covered to guard against rain and snow.

New hotels and convention centers attack another industry prize, midweek traffic. Hoskens says most of Cuninghams’s newest projects contain this component. They give customers a venue in which to socialize. Their extended stays make gaming a more leisurely activity.

Local properties share the lessons learned from operators like Station in Las Vegas: provide family entertainment like bowling alleys and theaters.

“Native American properties have adopted the same philosophy,” he indicates. “You can create a wonderful entertainment opportunity when people come in. The parents can drop their kids off at the cinema, and with someone to watch them, go play for two and a half hours, pick up the kids and go home. Or you can do a bowling league, followed by some gambling. Amenities like that give you a real return on investment.”

They also make it easy for patrons to return.

Then comes the mystique factor, placed into the subconscious realm of economic planning: create a buzz. This is a dynamic recognized from casino boardrooms and architectural plans to the entertainment stage.

If considering an addition, Hoskens says casinos need to create a big bang. It could be a landscaped pool or nightclub, a pool by day and club by night. A concept like this creates a buzz and foot traffic.

Outdoor amphitheaters also rank strongly for investment return. They host high-quality entertainment acts, which can both draw customers and create long-term revenue.

Finally, he favors a retail chain connected to or nearby the property. Customers can’t help but wander from the store to the gaming floor.

Worth The Investment

Tribal entities have been savvy with their finances, according to Brian Fagerstrom, president of Denver-based WorthGroup Architects. The company finished three significant projects in late 2012—renovation and expansion for Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino in Phoenix, the Cherokee Hard Rock in Tulsa and the Choctaw Pocola in Oklahoma. It also built new for Jena Choctaw Casino in Louisiana, which opened in February.

A common theme ran through all properties.

“All the projects are cash-funded,” Fagerstrom says. “None of these has financing associated with it. That tells a huge story about how the tribes have been able to develop their properties at a pace in which they have cash flow. The smart ones are able to figure it out without ever having to finance.”

Harrah’s Ak-Chin does have capital funding from itself. The property amassed an improvement budget over the years and spent it. When expanding, they seek the smart packages of additional gaming space, resort luxury and a tilt toward the younger audience.

“What’s trending now is how entertainment brings all the amenities together,” Fagerstrom asserts. “Entertainment is more and more prevalent in how the design is implemented.

“Beyond the restoration, beyond the gaming part, and beyond the hotel component, you find that entertainment is at the forefront of the architectural design.”

Its form embraces younger demographics. Many operators proclaim the benefit of “gaming lounges” where people with smart phones, mobile apps and a fine grasp of technology can gamble.

“It’s not traditional entertainment,” Fagerstrom says. “You don’t see a band and listen to a lounge act in all of them. Much of this is about, ‘How can I sit and use my smart phone? How can I get information? Where can I sit down with a drink, be part of the gaming action and be relaxed?’

“Part of it is technology, part of it is equipment and part of it is flexibility. As places continue to grow, gaming, hospitality and the amenities help properties distinguish themselves.”

Take the new lounge at Hard Rock. Although the project was noted for its suites, it included a stunning new lounge-in-the-round. Comfortable chairs with sleek red backs adorn the floor. A circular design, draped in blue, marks the wall and ceiling. The curves create the sense of wide-open space. Several mid-sized screens display an abundance of sporting events. Actual scores of games can be seen on a ticker running across the top of the bar. Patrons can sit, order drinks and watch events they may have even wagered upon online. The facility even creates a good environment for a DJ.

This amenity, directed at younger players, complemented the overall renovation project. Hard Rock added the all-suite tower of approximately 100 rooms with the intention of pleasing high-end players.

A thrill factor usually accompanies the renovation. While properties upgrade to stay competitive, they often do something new to make a statement.

The Pocola project encompassed both. The operators did not have a hotel on the property. They added one, re-branded the entire facility, created a resort look and went from a two-story casino building to an eight-story structure.

It was an important leap, because this property competes with about 30 operators in a one-hour radius.

“All of this created a new image for their location,” Fagerstrom says. “They got four-for-one (four benefits to one project), including the extra capacity for gaming.”

As for Choctaw Pines, the operators skipped entry-level positioning. They sought a mid-sized, impressive casino which figured to hit the ground running. The building is the closest gaming property to an area of 180,000 people, Fagerstrom says.

It opened as a casino and the hotel is already planned. Fagerstrom indicates that the tribe sought high-end construction, which enables flexibility and future expansion.

SOSH Scores

Tribes pay attention both to finance and flexibility, which create interesting expansion discussions.

“With the economy having gone through freefall over the past four to five years, we are finding that our clients look for ways to renovate on much tighter budgets,” says Tom O’Connor, a principal at SOSH Architects in Atlantic City. The company has extensive inroads with the Native American community.

“Whether it’s a hotel room refresh or a restaurant re-branding, owners and their funding sources are looking long and hard at the bottom line,” O’Connor says. “Prioritizing features and materials, phasing construction schedules and (the much dreaded) ‘value engineering’ are the new normal. The goal is to not have the cost-conscious decisions be apparent.”

It can be done. The mindset often means smaller outlays for everything from the energy-efficient HVAC system to light dimming, audio video systems and railings. Off-the-shelf carpeting, simplified landscape design features and less durable exterior building materials can also be used to reduce cost.

Then there are faux finishes, the paint and wall coverings that mimic (especially from a distance) expensive wood, marble and stone finishes. These are the wrinkles that an architect would notice, but the players would not.

Master planning becomes more critical as Native American casinos morph into world-class resorts, with amenities expected from destination properties, O’Connor says. Money becomes a big subject for operators thinking several years ahead.

This concept was practically unheard of a few years ago. An expansion involving added gaming space practically ensured a huge return. Yet, the crunch of competition in this challenged economy shifts the landscape.

Expansion projects that once appeared limitless in scope and cultural design features must be become cost-effective. Architects share the conference table with accountants.

“That’s always a battle in the business environment,” O’Connor says. “If you think about the hard times we had in the ’90s, General Motors was being run by the bean counters. They ran the company into the ground. You need to have a fine balance between project cost and design.

“Quite often, you will have the bean counter at the meeting, trying to tamper down anything they perceive as too expensive. But you also have a real good executive at that meeting who understands the value good design brings to a project.”

Somewhere between those perspectives, projects become finalized.

SOSH’s key tribal associations include the Senecas in New York and the Seminoles in Florida. The company performs varied expansion projects along with a brand new $300 million property for the Seminoles set open later this year at Ohio’s Northfield Park racetrack.

O’Connor says businesses often can renovate for 70 cents on the dollar compared to building new. That gives tribes distinct but different methods to create their image.

One popular concept is creating a long shelf life for an expansion by building for future considerations. SOSH recently prepared a five- to 10-year master plan for Fantasy Springs Golf Resort and Casino in Indio, California. The original property had expanded without planning future venues to complement the changeover from casino to resort.

The SOSH master plan would provide phased expansions to the hotel towers and pool complexes, secluded casitas, an 18-hole golf course, a retail town center, additional restaurant/entertainment venues and a new, enlarged casino. The first phase of restaurant, bar and casino renovations was recently completed. The master plan provides a road map but remains flexible to accommodate future considerations.

Hnedak Bobo: A Varied Approach

Many tribal gaming operators reposition their properties to stay fresh and build greater awareness with customers, according to Dike Bacon, principal for Memphis-based Hnedak Bobo Group.

Some opt for the heavy-hitting implications of branding.

“One such strategy tribes are considering is the drawing power of recognized national brands,” he indicates. “They are powerful motivators for customers and can significantly enhance a property’s ability to stay top-of-mind. Bringing a national brand to an existing property can have positive implications to the diversification of player demographics while adding new features and attractions that existing customers desire.”

Bacon says Hnedak Bobo Group’s recent project for the Pokagon Potawatomi at the Four Winds New Buffalo Casino Resort bears this out. The expansion, which opened last summer in southwest Michigan, 90 minutes outside Chicago, not only added a new 250-room hotel and 1,500-seat event center, but included a 12,000-square-foot Hard Rock Café.

“The Hard Rock name has significant staying power and supports the property’s efforts to reach out to a larger and broader demographic,” Bacon says. “The property’s new Silver Creek Event Center complements a crossover Hard Rock demographic, while opening up the resort to conferences and business clientele on weekdays. The design of the iconic café includes a large guitar element that literally pulls guests inside with neon LED lights used as the instrument’s strings. This design feature makes a significant visual impact and helps to set the venue apart from the rest of the casino floor.”

Just outside another major metropolitan market, the Coushatta Casino Resort, which draws customers from Houston and across southern Louisiana, looked to hotel expansion as a means to stay competitive. The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana wanted to boost customer convenience while redefining its own brand in the marketplace.

Developed by DreamCatcher Hotels and designed by Hnedak Bobo, the Seven Clans Hotel at Coushatta Casino Resort integrates both customer convenience and a higher-quality guest experience into the new 401-room property, which sits adjacent to the Coushatta Casino.

“We all know that guest experience is a top concern at any casino—when you add a hotel to the amenity mix, you can significantly impact customer loyalty through the convenience, quality and service you deliver to those customers,” says Greg Hnedak, partner of DreamCatcher Hotels.

Hnedak formed the hotel development company on the idea of delivering high perceived value and quality to the customer, at the lowest possible cost for the owner. He believes the critical point in the hotel guest experience begins after they turn the doorknob to their guest room. “Those are the ‘moments of truth;’” Hnedak says, “the guest immediately perceives the level of detail and value designed into every touch point—from the quality of the bed and linens to details in the bath fixtures.”

Engineering Excellence

While architects deliver beautiful exterior design and imagery, engineers provide a crucial, unheralded component to enrich clients. They make sure everything works.

Engineers know it takes a certain mindset to thrive while others grab the headlines. Their excellence is assumed, even though it won’t draw the “oohs” and “aahs” associated with breathtaking architecture.

That’s fine with JBA Consulting Engineers, a Las Vegas-based company with worldwide projects serving both small clients and giants like Wynn Resorts.

Vic Sibilla, director of operations for JBA’s Orange County, California branch, understands that if the integrated resort space is a musical band, someone must play bass guitar.

“We are the unsung heroes of the gaming world,” Sibilla laughs. “We impact people’s lives because of what we do and we accept the fact they may not notice it was us. I mean, we don’t expect people to come away from a concert and say, ‘Hey, the Foo Fighters were great, but the electrical engineers really killed it.’

“And no, we won’t hear somebody say, ‘Look at that diffuser,’ or ‘My hair dryer works.’ But we’ll hear about it if it doesn’t.”

JBA is an industry leader for integrated resorts via mechanical, electric, plumbing, fire protection, telecommunication, security/surveillance and audio-visual systems.

By delivering state-of-the-art functionality, it designs systems that are both cost-effective and efficient.

Its recent Native American work includes casino projects in California (San Manuel in Highland, Thunder Valley in Lincoln and Tribal Black Oak in Tuolumne), Oregon (Wild Horse in Pendleton), Arizona (soon-to-be-opened Twin Arrows in Flagstaff) and Connecticut (Foxwoods). Total construction costs range from $45 million to $200 million.

Sibilla says tribal tastes have become more entailed, reflecting the spread of Indian gaming from Minnesota in the early 1990s through California, Florida and the American heartland. Destination resorts have become a significant tribal ideology.

“It used to be card rooms and bingo halls for Native American clients,” he says. “Now it’s golf courses, first-class hotels, spas and high-end dining. From the mid 1990s to 2007 there was a big push in that regard, and since then, you are seeing things done smaller, with retrofits and redesigns to make them more appealing and increase their market share.”

The engineering work impacts key elements like mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. JBA’s service spreads to technology areas like telecom/data, audio-visual, security/surveillance, acoustics and fire protection—.

 

The Birth of IGRA

Posted on March 12, 2013 by -

In the 1980s, the United States Congress didn’t want to consider a bill that legalized the rapidly growing business of Indian gaming, but it had no choice. While Congress was concerned with the spread of Indian gaming, it was content for the most part to leave its control to the states and/or the courts.

But when the Supreme Court ruled on the Cabazon case in 1987, Congress came under increasing pressure from the states to define Indian gaming and how the states could control its expansion. This pressure was the catalyst to the birth of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

There were many major players on the road to IGRA: senators, congressmen, governors, tribal chairmen and chairwomen… But the real work, as usual, was performed in the trenches by staff members, advisers and attorneys. These are stories from three of the less-celebrated participants in the Cabazon case and the negotiations that led to the final version of IGRA. And as with most good pieces of legislation, no one was fully satisfied with the final project, but no one can deny it has worked effectively for the last 25 years, since it was passed in 1988.

Glenn Feldman was a young lawyer in the mid-1980s who represented the 25 members of the Cabazon tribe. In order to supplement their dirt-poor existence, the Cabazons had opened up a poker room in the fall of 1980 on their reservation in the Southern California desert, just like the poker rooms operated by other Californians just down the road. When two days later Indio police and later Riverside County deputies raided the casino in full SWAT regalia, Feldman defended the Cabazons all the way to the Supreme Court. Today, Feldman is a partner with Dickenson Wright in Phoenix.

Henry Buffalo was the in-house attorney for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. His boss was Chairman Bill Houle, who tapped him to represent the tribe in gaming because he had already been doing work on natural resources on the tribe’s reservation. Buffalo today is a shareholder in the firm of Jacobson Buffalo Magnuson Anderson & Hogen, P.C., in Minneapolis.

Patricia Zell was the staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee from 1987 through 2005, when Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) was chairman, and was known to be very friendly to causes of Native American tribes. Zell was closely involved with the IGRA negotiations, trying to bring all the diverse views together to craft a bill that would pass Congress quickly. Today, she is a partner at Zell & Cox Law, P.C. in Alexandria, Virginia.


Cabazon Creation

Feldman traces the timeline from the raids on the Cabazon poker room until the Supreme Court decision.

“We had filed lawsuits in several courts the first two years, gotten some favorable and other not-so-favorable rulings, and when the Riverside deputies raided, we had to start over again. But when the state of California intervened in 1983, it became really serious. It had been just the tribe against the local authorities, but now the state was involved.

“So then, we’re back in the District Court against the county and the state. In December of ’84, the District Court ruled in our favor. In February of ’86, the Ninth Circuit affirms. Then they appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to review the case, and in June of ’86 the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case. In December of ’86, we argue the case before the Supreme Court, and in February of ’87, the court issues its ruling. So it takes a full seven years to get there.”

Zell says even before the Cabazon decision, Congress was concerned and looking at ways to define federal oversight of gaming on Indian lands. It was the Cabazon case that crystalized the need for federal legislation, Zell said. But once the case reached the Supreme Court, all progress toward a federal bill halted.

“The Cabazons thought they had a solid wall of law behind them, but nobody knew for sure,” says Zell. “And that made the negotiations certainly interesting, probably more precarious, and made it hard for either side to exercise the sole amount of brinksmanship, because nobody knew where the ultimate power lay.”

Long before, Buffalo says tribes had been asking the Indian Affairs section of the Interior Department (BIA) to help them protect their bingo halls and poker rooms.

“One of the responses from the bureau was to establish a gaming or bingo commission, as it was known. And it selected several tribal leaders, and Bill Houle was one of those who was selected. He had me participate with him on that. The commission met for about a year or two, and visited many reservations. At the conclusion of the hearings, their report back to the bureau was that bingo was being conducted without regulations. And that was in ’85 or ’86, when the proposals in Congress were all anti-Indian gaming, either wipe it out or put it under state control.”

One of the meetings was at the Eden Roc hotel in Miami, where racetrack operators were also holding a conference at the Fontainebleau. Buffalo remembers visiting the hotel and seeing a huge ice sculpture of a thoroughbred racehorse.

“That was an eye-opener for us,” he explains. “We knew at that point that the thoroughbred guys, the dog track guys, and the commercial gaming guys and the state governments were all against us. So, the next day at the meeting, we encouraged the tribes to call for a national meeting to create a new organization, that would be the catalyst of any legislation going forward.”

Difficult Negotiations

The Cabazon decision was the watershed moment that spurred Congress to act.

“So the court rules in favor of the tribes, and the floodgates open,” says Feldman. “Everyone in Congress agrees. ‘Now we’ve got to do something.’ The court had given the tribes pretty much carte blanche here, so Congress felt it needed to step in and do something. And so from early ’87 until the fall of ’88, there’s a lot of bills introduced, a lot of hearings held, a lot of negotiations taking place. And finally, the legislative sausage factory came up with what came to be the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the fall of ’88.”

Zell says there were senators on both sides of the issue, but few had much knowledge of the gaming industry. So the Senate Indian Affairs Committee took road trips to Nevada and New Jersey to examine their regulatory systems.

“(Nevada) Senator Harry Reid certainly kept up the drumbeat of his concerns about the potential for infiltration of organized, or unorganized crime, for that matter, and so we—Senator Inouye and his staff—spent a few days in Nevada, meeting with regulators and others, and really learned their system very well.”

When Inouye’s counterpart John McCain came back with a similar experience, there was a consensus that a regulatory system was necessary. But the extent of that system was hotly debated.

“The tribes, having won the Cabazon victory, were very adamant that they didn’t need to be regulated and to the extent there needed to be regulation, they could do it themselves,” says Zell. “But no one could dream that Indian gaming would become what it is today. We didn’t have crystal balls, and still don’t, and so the idea that Indian gaming would become what it has become was far, far from our imagination. No one could anticipate—at least not in the public service sector—the proliferation that gaming technology would enable.”
But there was a problem. The Reagan administration was in office and resisted the implementation of any additional federal regulations.

“John Bolton, who was then a deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, told us there could be no federal presence in a national regulatory system should there be one, and Reagan would veto any bill that has any federal presence in Indian gaming,” Buffalo says. “And states wanted to be able to regulate Indian gaming themselves.”

But there was a flaw in that argument because in some states where Indian gaming would flourish, there was no state regulatory apparatus.

“We had some very, very helpful dialogues with the National Governors Association, with individual governors, with attorneys general, and that really helped to be able to identify where there needed to be much more oversight and focus. Even though the National Indian Gaming commission was not given authorization to have a role in Class III gaming, it certainly was a mechanism by which one could, through a commission, begin to address how to enhance state systems and how to enhance the cooperative relationships between states and tribes. In some cases, the tribes had been in gaming long enough, and they knew more than the states.”

Buffalo’s meeting led to the creation of the National Indian Gaming Association, and the tribes sat down to craft a series of demands that would be included in any bill. As the organization grew, it signed up members from all over the country.

“At first, we just thought we were going to be dealing with bingo,” Buffalo says. “But the Shakopee in Minnesota had Class II gaming machines, and we lobbied pretty hard to protect those machines, to grandfather them in. Later, they decided to broaden the gaming activities. Not only Class II, but then they created Class I and Class III—the traditional games, the bingo games, and also casino games, or Class III games.”

NIGA became the driving force behind IGRA, working late into the night and on weekends to outline a bill that would work for tribes, but also satisfy the members of Congress who needed to show a certain “control” over Indian gaming. The result was the formation of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

“After the bill was passed, the first thing that had to be done was the adoption of regulations to implement the bill that would govern the National Indian Gaming Commission,” Buffalo says. “I participated in the task force that was set up through the National Indian Gaming Association, under the leadership of Rick Hill. The task was to assist the federal government, or Interior in drafting the regulations that would implement the act.”

Feldman says the addition of Class III games to the IGRA draft created a confusion that continues to this day.

“It’s a function of the ambiguity in IGRA,” he says. “There were hard-fought views on both sides of this issue, and so the bill that was passed in ’88 was a compromise, and the one way that you sometimes get compromise in legislation is to put in language that everybody can read their own way. That’s exactly what happened in IGRA.

“For Class III games, this ambiguity lasted until 2005, when the Colorado River Indian Tribes won a case that determined that states, not the NIGC, can regulate Class III Indian gaming.”

IGRA Initiation

Buffalo says that negotiations during the crafting of IGRA could only go so far. Congress would push back at tribal demands, and there were several impasses.

“The evolution of the language of the bill ultimately resulted in the majority of tribes saying, ‘Well, let’s go with it; it’s probably the best that we have right now, but at least it will be protected—by both a Supreme Court decision and legislation.’ So the tribes thought it important to have a neutral party adjudicate disputes between tribes and states. And that’s what the states fought over the most, too. But tribes absolutely felt it was necessary to have a neutral party address any disputes that would arise out of the negotiation of compacts.”

Zell says that as the states pushed to be the regulator over Indian gaming, the tribes began to lessen their resistance to federal oversight.

“There seemed to be some convergence in this area, and there were very few areas were there was convergence,” she says. “So the tribes, if they had to be regulated, preferred the federal government, and the states said, ‘that’s fine with us, because we don’t really want the feds looking down over our shoulders and telling us how well or not we are regulating.’”

Another problem, says Zell, is that tribes often couldn’t offer their input in the 1980s.

“Before gaming, most tribes didn’t have the wherewithal to send one or more leaders to Washington. They had to have bake sales, they had to raise money in every possible way to buy an airline ticket to send one member of the tribe to Washington. So the tribes were really disadvantages because they couldn’t be at the table in the same way that the states could be at the table.”

Buffalo says there where things that tribes did want controlled, however.

“A big concern was those early management contracts that tribes were signing where the tribes were getting 20 percent and the managers were getting 80 percent. They were just awful arrangements. That was a critical, important piece to the tribes. So the tribes were really interested in getting that language into the policy—that the tribe should be the primary beneficiary and were the sole proprietors of the gaming businesses.”

Limiting participation to tribal governments was also a point of contention.

“Some tribes from the Northwest had, up to that point, a history of individual tribal members operating gaming facilities on the reservations,” says Buffalo. “They argued within NIGA that was part of the history from their region of supporting individual business on reservations and they wanted to protect that somehow.But those operations really flew in the face of what everybody else was doing around the country, which was the tribal governments operating them, either with managers or by themselves, but not owned by an individual. What NIGA was saying was that Indian gaming was all about governmental gaming, no different than those activities that each of the states were authorized through their lotteries, and/or their charitable activities, and/or their authorization of commercial gaming. That point eventually won the day.”

Zell says tribal government gaming was one of the most important developments ever experienced in Indian Country.

“There weren’t many businesses in those days that tribes could get into that would be profitable, and certainly not the way gaming has become profitable,” she says. “So there were quite a few things that came to pass, that we couldn’t have foreseen, and most of it worked for tribes all over the country.”

25 Years After IGRA

Posted on March 12, 2013 by -

On October 17, 1988, when Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), it was not possible to predict the profound socioeconomic and cultural changes that would occur on and near American Indian reservations in the United States due to gaming on tribal lands.

Tribal governments have invested gaming revenues wisely and continue to grow out of poverty while making substantial capital investments in tribal communities as well. While the income gap between reservations and the rest of the United States remains large, tribal governments have used the opportunity of tribal government gaming to narrow the gap. By now, it is clear to those both in and outside of Indian Country that the two major policy mandates of the 1988 IGRA (to stimulate economic development and to strengthen tribal governments) have been achieved.

While the impacts of tribal gaming are well-known to the tribal governments and communities themselves, I have had the privilege of working with tribal leaders and organizations to help document, articulate and disseminate the cultural, social and economic outcomes related to gaming for nearly 20 years. For the past five years, as chairwoman of the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University, I have also had the honor of directing much-needed funding to support important research on tribal government gaming’s profound social and economic impacts on communities and cultures.

While there are numerous stakeholders with an interest in tribal gaming’s impacts, including Congress, state governments and local communities, it is the tribes’ commitment to research about tribal government gaming that stands out in the past 25 years. Rather than allow their stories to be told by outside interests that may misrepresent or underestimate the complexities of tribal gaming’s effects on communities, tribal governments and organizations have taken the lead in building a research agenda that recognizes that tribal gaming research is still an emerging field that requires interdisciplinary and creative methodologies, including qualitative methods capable of analyzing the unique policy goals and intended social returns embedded in IGRA.

While tribal governments have always been gifted at telling their own stories, the first major political impetus for creating a coordinated national research agenda on tribal government gaming’s impacts was in response to public hearings being held by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission in 1998. At that time, the NGISC’s political strategy was to pit the various gambling industry segments against one other in order to develop a continuum of “good” gambling and “bad” gambling in the United States. As a political maneuver, tribal governments were essentially positioned by the commission as a subset of the larger commercial casino gambling industry.

Since the NGISC research agenda consisted of directing the same policy questions at each industry segment (such as the relationship between commercial casinos or tribal government gambling and certain social or economic outcomes), this approach to evaluating tribal government gaming revealed that the impacts from tribal casinos are similar to those of the commercial casino gambling industry, with a few important exceptions related to the unique policy and social environments that tribal governments manage.

In the end, the NGISC acknowledged that “the gambling industry is far from monolithic,” and that each segment of the gambling industry “has its own distinct set of issues, communities of interest and balance sheets of assets and liabilities.” With this NGISC finding as a backdrop, tribal governments began to differentiate themselves along these important dimensions.

The National Indian Gaming Association

After the release of the NGISC’s final report in 1999, the National Indian Gaming Association created the first National Indian Gaming Library and Resource Center to serve as a clearinghouse of information about the tribal government gaming industry, including its unique regulatory structure and the targeted uses of tribal gaming revenues under IGRA, among other key features.

The NIGA Library houses the first national database of tribal gaming studies, and represents a commitment to telling the story of tribal government gaming from the tribal perspective.

As part of that commitment, NIGA funded the first national impact study of tribal government gaming at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2001. Comparing the 1990 and 2000 Census data, this national databook captured the impacts of the first decade of gaming under IGRA and documented a profound turnaround in Indian Country. Authored by Jonathan Taylor and Joe Kalt, this databook compares gaming and non-gaming areas to each other and to the U.S. as a whole.

The data on 15 measures ranging from income and poverty to employment and housing conditions indicated that tribal governments made substantial gains during the 1990s but that large gaps remained. The authors put the remarkable improvements in Indian Country between 1990 and 2000 into historical perspective by reminding those who might see tribal gaming as a universal remedy that much remains to be done to close the gap. Indeed, they concluded at that time that, “If U.S. and on-reservation Indian per-capita incomes were to continue to grow at their 1990s rates, it would take half a century for tribes to catch up.”


California Nations Indian Gaming Association

While the Harvard databook provided a critical exploration of the macro-level impacts of IGRA and demonstrated that self-determination policy produced significant gains across Indian Country, tribal governments needed local-level data to highlight the particular benefits of locating casino gaming on tribal lands. In 2005, the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians and the California Nations Indian Gaming Association provided funding for researchers at the University of California-Riverside (UCR) to compare changes in key indicators of well-being between the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census across tribal governments in California.

These tract-level findings demonstrated that gaming operations had beneficial effects on tribes, and also had strong economic and social benefits in the form of “spillover effects” that reached beyond the reservations in California. These consequences of tribal government gaming were linked to two identifiable features of the casino enterprises themselves: 1) the fact that they are owned by tribal governments; and 2) the fact that they must be located on existing tribal lands.

By focusing on the effects of tribal gaming on localities, the UCR team revealed that since citizens of Indian nations are more likely to undertake gaming from a relatively disadvantaged social position vis-à-vis non-Indians, gaming can bring benefits to Indian nations and their neighbors that are more pronounced than they would be in a less disadvantaged region. Additionally, since tribal government gaming is most likely to emerge in areas with depressed economies, the benefits of tribal government gaming spread beyond the tribal community into the surrounding region.

 
The Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming

On the strength of these findings and in order to institutionalize the ability for Indian Country to produce meaningful research on the effects of tribal government gaming, the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation endowed the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming (SITG) at San Diego State University in 2005.

In addition to offering the nation’s first four-year degree in tribal casino operations management, the SITG provides funding for independent, peer-reviewed scientific research on tribal government gaming. The focus of Sycuan Institute research funding reflects the priorities of tribal nations themselves, with an emphasis on the social and cultural impacts of tribal gaming, best practices in tribal responsible gaming, the role of tribal political influence and the nature and influence of tribal gaming employment.

Since its first grant in 2006, the Sycuan Institute has supported research at more than a dozen academic departments at 10 universities. Sycuan-funded research has been published in multiple books and publications and has been presented at numerous industry and academic events.

Thanks to the Sycuan Institute, we now have a more sophisticated understanding of the ways tribal gaming operators interact with guests who exhibit disordered gambling behaviors. We have more evidence of the remarkable gains in education and cultural revitalization that government-owned casino revenues can make possible. Additionally, we have a framework for developing cultural programs to support tribal identity and education, and a greater understanding of the complex cultural processes involved in the creation of contemporary tribal cultures and identity.

Twenty-Five Years of IGRA Impacts

In addition to the important cultural research already completed, in 2012 the SITG funded the extension of prior research on socioeconomic change produced by research teams at Harvard and UCR. The recent release of the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) by the U.S. Census Bureau provides an opportunity for data gathering and analysis to update and build upon work examining change between the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey.

This opportunity allows an evaluation of a second decade of social and economic change under IGRA, including the first decade of compacted gaming in California. The first Harvard data book determined that in the 1990s, economic growth on Indian reservations outpaced the United States’ income growth by a factor of three. Data from the ACS indicate that the pace of reservation economic growth slowed between 2000 and 2010, but that it still outpaced U.S. growth. The income gap between reservations and the rest of the United States remains large, but American Indians continued in the 2000s to close it.

The study, led by economists Jonathan Taylor and Randy Akee, examines this and other trends in income, employment, housing and education over the period of 2000-2010 and compares them to trends in the prior decade. It also examines off-reservation changes in income and employment.

One of the early and important findings in the national dataset reflects the larger economic challenges of the U.S. economy in the last decade. Real per-capita income, defined as all income divided by the number of people, decreased by 6 percent across the United States. While the recession depressed national incomes, growth in American Indian income between 5 percent and 6 percent helped close the gap. While the variance in the last decade suggests that tribes are “catching up,” it is critical to note that tribal per-capita income is still less than half of the Total U.S.-All Races level.


Impacts on California Localities

The Sycuan Institute has also funded an update to the UCR study on local impacts of tribal government gaming using the ACS from 2006 to 2010. Just as UCR found for the first decade of pre-compacted California tribal gaming, there are significant gains for American Indians on reservations (with and without gaming) and those who live nearby (in this case, within 10 miles). For example, during the first decade of compacted tribal gaming in California, American Indian per-capita income grew to $18,371 and $16,979 on California reservations with and without casinos, respectively. This growth among American Indian populations helped close the gap with the U.S. average ($26,648), although these gains may arguably be less due to gaming’s growth than due to the drop in national income associated with the recession.

Both the UCR and Sycuan studies also demonstrate that the spillover effects of tribal government gaming in California for the last two decades are revealed in census tracts within 10 miles of California reservations with gaming. In communities near California reservations with gaming, income for Californians of all ethnicities rose by more in the 1990s and fell by less in the 2000s than it did for those tracts that were more than 10 miles from a reservation with gaming.

Tracts near tribal casinos continue to display lower average income, but the gap is closing. For example, incomes for communities within 10 miles of a reservation with gaming grew six times more than those more than 10 miles away. These impacts result from the fact that most American Indian reservations in California, even the more prosperous ones, are generally located in the poorest counties and tracts in the state.

Stories To Be Told

In spite of the significant investments by tribal communities and organizations in research on tribal government gaming’s impacts, and substantial hard work and innovation by researchers and academics, there is more work to be done to tell the complete story of the individual and community transformations facilitated by tribal government gaming.

For example, tribal government gaming has numerous downstream effects that require new and creative metrics to measure both the quality of these impacts and the transformation of existing processes and relationships due to tribal government gaming and economic development. Tribal gaming both suggests and prompts further economic development, government innovation and partnership creation, which themselves have social and private returns for tribal governments and surrounding communities.

Given the complexity and interdependence of these developments, our current research methods more than likely understate the social and economic benefits of tribal government gaming, because these outcomes show up in additional locations and populations, and in datasets that are not captured by the U.S. Census or through other traditional data-gathering methods. These new institutions, businesses and partnerships require the development of multiple and innovative output and performance indicators to accurately and fully describe both the concentrated and far-reaching ways tribal government gaming has forever transformed the environment and outlook across much of Indian Country.

As tribal government gaming continues to grow and mature, the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming and other committed partners will continue to support research efforts to develop and apply academically rigorous methods to the question of social and economic returns, while also orienting their findings towards larger public policy matters of specific importance to Indian Country. By emphasizing the interdependence of communities and policy decisions, tribal government gaming communities and researchers can cooperate to provide a model for future policy-oriented research on gambling in general, and inspire other researchers to master and improve upon existing techniques for articulating the complex impacts of economic development and casino gambling expansion on all levels of society.

Selected Research on Social and Economic Impacts of Tribal Gaming

Social and Economic Analysis of Tribal Government Gaming in Oklahoma. Available at www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied.

An Impact Analysis of Tribal Government Gaming in California. Available at www.ccnn.ucr.edu.

Lands of Opportunity: Social and Economic Effects of Tribal Gaming on Localities. Available at http://policymatters.ucr.edu.

Annotated Bibliography: The Social and Economic Impacts of Indian and Other Gaming. Available at www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied.

American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. Available at www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied.

In 2005, the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, with the support of Tribal Chairman Daniel Tucker, endowed the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University. In partnership and cooperation with tribal governments, the mission of the SITG is to produce high-quality, practical research on tribal government gaming.

2013 Tribal Gaming Directory – Canada

Posted on January 23, 2013 by -

ALBERTA

Cold Lake First Nation
CASINO DENE
Route 28 and Highway 897
Cold Lake, Alberta T9M 1P4
Mailing: PO Box 1859
Cold Lake, Alberta T9M 1P4
Phone: 780-594-7900
Fax: 780-594-7902
www.casinodene.com
Slots 150
Table Games 10
Tribal Chief: Walter Janvier

Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation
EAGLE RIVER CASINO & TRAVEL PLAZA
Highway 43 and Highway 32 North
Whitecourt, Alberta T7S 1P7
Mailing: PO Box 10
Whitecourt, Alerta T7S 1N3
Phone: 780-779-2727
Toll Free: 888-913-2727
Fax: 780-706-7451
www.eaglerivercasino.ca
Slots 250
Table Games 18
Tribal Chief: Cameron Alexis
GM: Eris Moncur

Tsuu T’ina First Nation
GREY EAGLE CASINO & BINGO
3777 Grey Eagle Dr.
Calgary, Alberta T3E 3X8
Phone: 403-273-3200
www.greyeagle.ca
Casino size: 84,000 sq. ft.
Slots 600
Tables Games 59
Bingo 550 seats
Tribal Chief: Sanford Big Plume
GM: Martin Brickstock

Enoch Cree Nation
RIVER CREE RESORT & CASINO
Whitemud Drive and Winterbum Road
Enoch, Alberta T7X 3Y3
Mailing: PO Box 179
Enoch, Alberta T7X 3Y3
Phone: 780-484-2121
Toll Free: 877-377-7774
Fax: 780-930-2716
www.rivercreeresort.com
Casino size: 62,600 sq. ft.
Edmonton Marriott at River Cree (249 rooms)
Slots 850
Table Games 51
Tribal Chief: Harry Sharphead
GM: Kevan Schell

Stoney Nakoda First Nation
STONEY NAKODA RESORT & CASINO
Highway 40 and Highway 1
Morley, Alberta T0L 1N0
Mailing: PO Box 1500
Morley, Alberta T0L 1N0
Phone: 403-881-2830
Fax: 403-881-2831
www.stoneynakodaresort.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Stoney Nakoda Resort (111 rooms)
Slots 300
Table Games 18
Tribal Chief: Clifford Poucette (Wesley), Bruce Labelle (Chiniki)
GM: Andrew Shephard

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Ktunaxa Nation, Samson Cree Nation & Mnjikaning First Nations
ST. EUGENE GOLF RESORT & CASINO
7777 Mission Rd.
Cranbrook, BC
V1C 7E5
Phone: 250- 420-2000
Toll Free: 866-292-2020
Fax: 250-420-2001
www.steugene.ca
Casino size: 19,000 sq. ft.
St. Eugene Resort (125 rooms)
Slots 239
Table Games 14
GM: Sandra van Steijn

MANITOBA

Cree Nations
ASENESKAK CASINO
Highway 10 Opaskwayak
The Pas, Manitoba R0B 2J0
Mailing: PO Box 10250
Opaskwayak, The Pas
Manitoba R0B 2J0    
Phone 204- 627-2250
Toll Free: 877-627-2267
Fax: 204-627-2255
www.bestlittlecasino.ca
Casino size: 20,500 sq. ft.
Slots 160
Table Games 7
GM: Jason Agecoutay

Swan Lake First Nation
FIRST NATION GAMING CENTER
4818 Portage Ave.
Headingley, Manitoba R4H 1CH
Phone: 204-832-1849
Fax: 204-832-1759
Slots 30
Tribal Chief: Francine Melches
GM: Donna M’lot

Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation
ROSEAU RIVER FIRST NATION COMMUNITY HALL
Highway 201
Ginew, Manitoba R0A 2R0
Phone: 204-427-2193
Fax: 204-427-2254
Slots 50
Tribal Chief: Terrance Nelson
GM: Marilyn Nelson

Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
SOUTH BEACH CASINO & RESORT
One Ocean Drive
Scanterbury, Manitoba R0E 1W0
Phone: 204-766-2100
Toll Free: 877-77-LUCKY
Fax: 204-766-2266
www.southbeachcasino.ca
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
South Beach Resort (93 rooms)
Slots 600
Table Games 16
Tribal Chief: Deborah Chief
GM: Faysal Tur

ONTARIO

Mnjikaning First Nation
CASINO RAMA RESORT
5897 Rama Rd
Rama, Ontario L0K 1T0
Mailing: PO Box 178 RR 6
Rama, Ontario L0K 1T0
Phone: 705-329-3325
Toll Free: 800-832-7529
Fax: 705-329-3329
www.casinorama.com
Casino size: 95,000 sq. ft.
Casino Rama Resort (289 rooms)
Slots 2,500
Table Games 110
CEO: Harry Oshanski

Waushushk Onigum Foundation
GOLDEN EAGLE CHARITABLE CASINO AND GAMING CENTER
Golf Course Road
Mailing: PO Box 2860
Kenora, Ontario P9N 3X8
Phone: 807-548-1332
Fax: 807-548-5831
www.casinokenora.com
Bingo 450 seats
Tribal Chief: Ken Snead
GM: Patrick Brett

Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation
GREAT BLUE HERON CHARITY CASINO
21777 Island Rd.
Port Perry, Ontario L9L 1B6
Phone: 905-985-4888
Toll Free: 888-294-3766
Fax: 905-985-9154
www.greatblueheroncasino.com
Slots 545
Table Games 72
GM: Arnold Block
Tribal Chief: Tracy Gauthier

Six Nations of the Grand River
SIX NATIONS BINGO HALL
2585 Chiefswood Rd.
Ohsweken, Ontario N0A 1M0
Mailing: PO Box 5000
Ohsweken, Ontario N0A 1M0
Phone: 519-753-3574
www.sixnationsbingo.ca
Casino size: 39,500 sq. ft.
Bingo 1,600 seats
Tribal Chief: William Montour
GM: Lana Smith

SASKATCHEWAN

White Bear Indian Community
BEAR CLAW CASINO
Highway 9
White Bear First Nation
Mailing: PO Box 1210
Caryle, Saskatchewan S0C 0R0
Phone: 306-577-4577
Fax: 306-577-4899
www.siga.sk.ca/bearclaw
Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (35 Rooms)
Slots 142
Table Games 3
Tribal Chief: Lawrence Joseph
GM: Edward Littlechief

Whitecap Dakota First Nation
DAKOTA DUNES CASINO
204 Dakota Dunes Way
Whitecap, Saskatchewan S7K 2L2
Phone: 306-667-6400
Fax: 306-667-6403
www.dakotadunescasino.ca
Casino size: 84,000 sq. ft.
Slots 620
Table Games 29
Tribal Chief: Darcy Bear
GM: Gary Daniels

First Nations of Saskatchewan
GOLD EAGLE CASINO
11902 Railway Ave.
North Battleford,
Saskatchewan S9A 3K7
Phone: 306-446-3833
Fax: 306-446-7184
www.siga.sk.ca/goldeagle
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Slots 285
Table Games 58
GM: Kelly Atcheynum
Tribal Chief: Guy Lonechild

File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council
LIVING SKY CASINO
1401 N. Service Rd. East
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
S9H 3X6
Phone: 306-778-5759
Fax: 306-778-5788
www.livingskycasino.ca
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Slots 140
Table Games 8
Tribal Chief: Ken Sinclair
GM: Charles Ryder

First Nations of Saskatchewan
NORTHERN LIGHTS CASINO
44 Marquis Rd. West
Prince Albert, SK S6V 7Y5
Phone: 306-764-4777
Fax: 306-922-1000
www.siga.sk.ca/northern_lights
Casino size: 42,000 sq. ft.
Prince Albert Inn (105 rooms)
Slots 525
Table Games 13
Tribal Chief: Guy Lonechild
GM: Richard Ahenakew

First Nations of Saskatchewan
PAINTED HAND CASINO
510 Broadway St. West
Yorkton, Saskatchewan S3N OP3
Phone: 306-786-6777
Fax: 306-786-7774
www.siga.sk.ca/painted_hand
Casino size: 18,000 sq. ft.
Slots 225
Table Games 8
Tribal Chief: Guy Lonechild
GM: Johnathan Pasap

2013 Tribal Gaming Directory – U.S.

Posted on January 22, 2013 by -

 

ALABAMA
Class II

Poarch Band of Creek Indians
CREEK CASINO WETUMPKA
100 River Oaks Dr.
Wetumpka, AL 36092-3084
Mailing: PO Box 970
Wetumpka, AL 36092-0029
Phone: 334-514-0469
Toll Free: 800-897-7198
Fax: 334-514-9574
www.pcigaming.com
Casino size: 39,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 1,200
Electronic Bingo 1,083 seats
Tribal Chair: Buford L. Rolin

Poarch Band of Creek Indians
CREEK CASINO
MONTGOMERY
1801 Eddie L.Tullis Dr. Montgomery, AL 36117
Phone: 334-273-9003
Toll Free: 800-958-9003
Fax: 334-396-9282
www.pcigaming.com
Casino size: 21,000 sq. ft. Gaming Machines 470
Tribal Chair: Buford L. Rolin

Poarch Band of Creek Indians
WIND CREEK CASINO & HOTEL
303 Poarch Rd.
Atmore, AL 36502
Mailing: PO Box 09
Atmore, AL 36504
Phone: 251-368-8007
Toll Free: 866-946-3360  
Fax: 251-368-8590
www.pcigaming.com
Casino size: 80,000 sq. ft. Gaming Machines 1,607
Tribal Chair: Buford L. Rolin

ALASKA
Class II

Qagan Tayagungin Tribe of Sand Point
AGATE PULL TABS
100 Municipal Building Room 7A
Sand Point, AK 99661-0447
Mailing: PO Box 447
Sand Point, AK 99661-0447
Phone: 907-383-5833
Fax: 907-383-5814
Pull Tab Machines 10
GM: Anne Nielsen

Klawock Cooperative Association
KLAWOCK IRA SMOKE SHOP
310 Bayview Blvd.
Klawock, AL 99925
Mailing: PO Box 430
Klawock, AK 99925-0430
Phone: 907-755-2265
Fax: 907-755-8800
Bingo 60 seats  
GM:  Anna Chafin

Metlakatla Indian Community
METLAKATLA INDIAN COMMUNITY BINGO
8 Milton St.
Metlakatla, AL 99926-0008
Mailing: PO Box 8
Metlakatla, AK 99926
Phone: 907-886-4441
Fax: 907-886-7997
Casino size: 4,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 90
Bingo 120 seats
GM: Joni Hudson

Native Village of Barrow Tribal Government
NATIVE VILLAGE OF BARROW PULL TABS
742 Stevenson St.
Barrow, AK 99723-1149
Mailing: PO Box 1139
Barrow, AK 99723-1139
Phone: 907-852-2077
Toll Free: 800-478-4412
Fax: 907-852-8844
Casino size: 550 sq. ft.
Table Games 8
Tribal President: Thomas Oleman
GM: Dorothy Mazonna

Sitka Tribe of Alaska
SITKA TRIBAL BINGO
235 Katlian St.
Sitka, AK 99835
Phone: 907-747-3207
Fax: 907-747-4915
www.sitkatribe.org
Bingo 100 seats
Tribal Chair: Lawrence A. Widmark

Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak
SUN’AQ TRIBAL BINGO
312 West Marine Way
Kodiak, AK 99615
Phone: 907-486-6735
Fax: 907-486-6766
Bingo 299 seats
Tribal Chair: Brenda Schwantes

Tlingit and Haida Indians of CBJ
TINGLIT AND HAIDA INDIANS
3235 Hospital Drive
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: 907-463-5680
Fax: 907-463-3061
www.ccthita.org
Bingo 200 seats
Tribal President: Edward Thomas

ARIZONA
Class II & III

San Carlos Apache Tribe
APACHE GOLD HOTEL CASINO RESORT
Highway 70-Mile Post 258
San Carlos, AZ 85501
Mailing: PO Box 1210
San Carlos, AZ 85550-0357
Phone: 928-475-7800
Toll Free: 800-272-2438
Fax: 928-475-7692
www.apachegoldcasinoresort.com
Casino size 60,000 sq. ft.
Apache Gold Best Western Hotel (146 rooms)
Slots 699
Table Games 8
Bingo 1,000 seats
Tribal Chair: Wendsler Nosie

Colorado River Indian Tribes
BLUEWATER RESORT & CASINO
11300 Resort Dr.
Parker, AZ 85344-7549
Phone: 928-669-7000
Toll Free: 888-243-3360
Fax: 928-669-5910
www.bluewaterfun.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Bluewater Resort (200 rooms)
Slots 475
Table Games 13
Bingo 350 seats
Tribal Chair: Eldred Enas

Yavapai—Prescott Indian Tribe
BUCKY’S CASINO & PRESCOTT RESORT
1500 East Highway 69
Building B
Prescott, AZ 86301-5640
Mailing: PO Box 10190
Prescott, AZ 86304-0190
Phone: 928-776-5695
Toll Free: 800-756-8744
Fax: 928-541-9217
www.buckyscasino.com
Casino size: 24,000 sq. ft.
Prescott Resort (160 rooms)
Slots 301
Bingo 150 seats
Table Games 17
GM: Craig Johnson

Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community
CASINO ARIZONA AT TALKING STICK
9800 E. Indian Bend Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85256
Mailing: PO Box 10099
Scottsdale, AZ 85271-0099
Phone: 480-850-7777
Toll Free: 877-724-4687
Fax: 480-850-7741
www.casinoaz.com
Casino size: 240,000 sq. ft.
Slots 801
Table Games 94
CEO: Dennis Leong

Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community
CASINO ARIZONA 101 & MCKELLIPS  
524 N. 92nd St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85256-5402
Mailing: PO Box 10099
Scottsdale, AZ 85271-0099
Phone: 480-850-7777
Toll Free: 877-724-4687
Fax: 480-850-7700
www.casinoaz.com
Casino size: 100,000 sq. ft.
Slots 861
Table Games 53
CEO: Dennis Leong

Pascua Yaqui Tribe
CASINO DEL SOL
5655 W. Valencia Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85746
Phone: 520-838-6506
Toll Free: 800-344-9435
Fax: 520-838-6660
www.casinodelsol.com
Casino size: 240,000 sq. ft.
Slots 955
Bingo 694 seats
Table Games 38
Tribal Chair: Peter Yucupicio

Pascua Yaqui Tribe
CASINO OF THE SUN
7406 S. Camino de Oeste Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85746-9308
Mailing: 5655 W. Valencia Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85746
Phone: 520-883-1700
Toll Free: 800-344-9435
Fax: 520-838-6660
www.casinodelsol.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Slots 388
Table Games 6
Tribal Chair: Peter Yucupicio

Yavapai-Apache Nation
CLIFF CASTLE CASINO
555 Middle Verde Rd.
Camp Verde, AZ 86322
Phone: 928-567-7900
Toll Free: 800-381-7568
Fax: 928-567-7901
www.cliffcastlecasino.net
The Lodge at Cliff Castle (82 rooms)
Casino size: 140,000 sq. ft.
Slots 656
Table Games 18
Chairman: David Kwail

Cocopah Tribe
COCOPAH CASINO & BINGO
15138 S. Avenue B
Somerton, AZ 85350-7648
Phone: 928-726-8066
Toll Free: 800-237-5687
Fax: 928-217-7769
www.cocopahresort.com
Casino size: 24,000 sq. ft.
Slots 500
Bingo 350 seats
Table Games 8
Tribal Chair: Sherry Cordova
GM: Jerry Lane

Tohono O’odham Nation
DESERT DIAMOND CASINO—I-19
1100 West Pima Mine Rd.
Sahuarita, AZ 85629-9624
Mailing: PO Box 22230
Sells, AZ 85734-2230
Phone: 520-294-7777
Toll Free: 866-332-9467
Fax: 520-393-2855
www.desertdiamondcasino.com
Casino size: 185,000 sq. ft.
Slots 890
Table Games 10
Tribal Chair: Ned Norris Jr.
GM: Ms. Henry Childs

Tohono O’odham Nation
DESERT DIAMOND CASINO NOGALES
7350 S Nogales Hwy.
Tucson, AZ 85634
Mailing: PO Box 22230
Tucson, AZ 85734-2230
Phone: 520-294-7777
Toll Free: 866-332-9467
Fax: 520-393-2855
www.dese
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Casino size: 165,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1089
Table Games 36
Bingo 500 seats
Tribal Chair: Ned Norris Jr.

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
FORT McDOWELL CASINO
10424 N.  Fort McDowell Rd.
Fountain Hills, AZ 85264
Mailing: PO Box 18359
Fountain Hills, AZ 85264-8359
Phone: 480-837-1424
Toll Free: 800-843-3678
Fax: 480-837-4713
www.fortmcdowellcasino.com
Casino size: 150,000 sq. ft.
Radisson Hotel (247 Rooms) Slots 903
Table Games 28
Bingo 1,700
GM: Pamela Mott, Tribal Treasurer

Gila River Indian Community
LONE BUTTE CASINO
1077 S. Kyrene Rd.
Chandler, AZ 85226
Mailing: PO Box 6790
Chandler, AZ 85226-6790
Phone: 520-796-7777
Toll Free: 800-946-4452
Fax: 520-796-7864
www.wingilariver.com/lone-butte
Casino size: 120,000 sq. ft.
Slots 850
Table Games 24
Bingo 750 seats
GM: Jeff Martin

Gila River Indian Community
VEE QUIVA CASINO  
6443 N. Komatke Lane
Laveen, AZ 85339
Mailing: PO Box 6790
Chandler, AZ 85246-6790
Phone: 520-796-7777
Toll Free: 800-946-4452
Fax: 520-796-7864
www.wingilariver.com/vee-quiva
Casino size: 99,000 sq. ft.
Slots 834
Table Games 28
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Carolyn Thompson

Ak-Chin Indian Community
HARRAH’S PHOENIX AK-CHIN CASINO
15406 N Maricopa Rd.
Maricopa, AZ 85239
Phone: 480-802-5000
Toll Free: 800-427-7247
Fax: 480-802-5050
www.harrahs.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
Harrah’s Phoenix Ak-Chin Resort (148 rooms)
Slots 1,089
Table Games 28
Bingo 470 seats
Chairman: Louis Manuel
GM: Robert Livingston

White Mountain Apache
HON-DAH RESORT CASINO
777 Hwy. 260
Pinetop, AZ 85935
Phone: 928-369-0299
Toll Free: 800-929-8744
Fax: 928-369-0382
www.hon-dah.com
Casino size: 18,600 sq. ft.
Hon-Dah Hotel (386 rooms)
Slots 800
Table Games 7
Tribal Chair: Ronnie Lupe
GM: Brent Kurth

Tonto Apache Tribe
MAZATZAL CASINO
Beeline Hwy. 87, Mile Post 251
Payson, AZ 85541
Mailing: PO Box 1820
Payson, AZ 85547-1820
Phone: 928-474-6044
Toll Free: 800-777-7529
Fax: 928-472-2069
www.777play.com
Casino size: 38,000 sq. ft.
Slots 413
Table Games 7
Bingo 280 seats
Tribal Chair: Ivan Smith
GM: Farrell Hoosava

Quechan Indian Tribe
PARADISE CASINO
450 Quechan Drive
Yuma, AZ 85366
Mailing: PO Box 2737
Yuma, AZ 85366-2737
Phone: 760-572-7777
Toll Free: 888-777-4946
Fax: 760-572-2471
www.paradise-casinos.com
Casino size: 11,613 sq. ft.
Slots 514
Bingo 300 seats  
GM: Keeny Escalanti Jr.

Fort Mojave Tribe
SPIRIT MOUNTAIN CASINO
8555 S. Hwy. 95
Mohave Valley, AZ 86440-9309
Mailing: PO Box 6588
Mohave Valley, AZ 86440-6588
Phone: 928-346-2000
Toll Free: 888-837-4030
Fax: 928-346-2007
Casino size: 9,500 sq. ft.
Slots 243
Tribal Chair: Timothy Williams
GM: Jack Medrano

Gila River Indian Community
WILD HORSE PASS HOTEL & CASINO
5040 Wild Horse Pass Blvd.
Chandler, AZ 85226
Phone: 520-796-7777
Toll Free: 800-WIN-GILA
Fax: 520-796-7837
www.wingilariver.com/wild-horse-pass
Casino size: 100,000 sq. ft.
Wild Horse Pass Hotel (242 rooms)
Slots 1,002
Table Games 66
GM: Michael Olujic

Yavapai—Prescott Indian Tribe
YAVAPAI CASINO
1505 E. Hwy. 69
Prescott, AZ 86301-5641
Mailing: PO Box 10190
Prescott, AZ 86304-0190
Phone: 928-445-5767
Toll Free: 800-756-8744
Fax: 928-771-0653
www.buckyscasino.com
Casino size: 6,000 sq. ft.
Slots 235
GM: Craig Johnson

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Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
AGUA CALIENTE CASINO RESORT SPA
32-250 Bob Hope Drive
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270-2704
Phone: 760-321-2000
Toll Free: 866-999-1995
Fax: 760-202-2617
www.hotwatercasino.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Agua Caliente Resort (340 rooms)
Slots 1,300
Table Games 60
Bingo 650 seats
Tribal Chair: Richard Milanovich
COO: Brian Hansberry

Augustine Band of Mission Indians
AUGUSTINE CASINO
84-001 Ave. 54
Coachella, CA 92236-9780
Phone: 760-391-9500
Toll Free: 888-PLAY2WIN
Fax: 760-398-4447
www.augustinecasino.com
Casino size: 42,000 sq. ft.
Slots 800
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Tribal Chair: Mary Ann Green
GM: Robert Jones

Barona Band of Mission Indians
BARONA VALLEY RANCH RESORT & CASINO
1932 Wildcat Canyon Rd.
Lakeside, CA 92040-1546
Phone: 619-443-2300
Toll Free: 888-7-BARONA (722-7662)
Fax: 619-443-2856
www.barona.com
Casino size: 310,000 sq. ft.
Barona Valley Ranch Resort (397 rooms)
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Tribal Chair: Edwin Romero
GM: Rick Salinas

Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria
BEAR RIVER CASINO
11 Bear Paws Way
Loleta, CA 95551
Phone: 707-733-9664
Toll Free: 800-761-2327
Fax: 707-733-9611
www.bearrivercasino.com
Casino size: 13,056 sq. ft.
Slots 349
Table Games 14
Tribal Chair: Leonard Bowman
GM: John McGinnis

Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribe
BLACK OAK CASINO
19400 Tuolumne Rd. N
Tuolumne, CA 95379-9724
Phone: 209-928-9300
Toll Free: 877-747-8777
Fax: 209-928-9301
www.blackoakcasino.com
Casino Size: 167,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,013
Table Games 24
GM: Ron Patel

Blue Lake Rancheria
BLUE LAKE CASINO HOTEL
777 Casino Way
Blue Lake, CA 95525
Mailing: PO Box 1128
Blue Lake, CA 95525-1128
Phone: 707-668-9770
Toll Free: 877-BLC2WIN (252-2946)
Fax: 707-668-9757
www.bluelakecasino.com
Casino size: 44,500 sq. ft.
Blue Lake Hotel (102 rooms)
Slots 800
Table Games 18
Bingo 500 seats
CEO: Arla Ramsey

Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
CACHE CREEK CASINO RESORT
14455 Hwy. 16
Brooks, CA 95606-0065
Mailing: PO Box 65
Brooks, CA 95606-0065
Phone: 530-796-3118
Toll Free: 800-992-8686
Fax: 530-796-2112
www.cachecreek.com
Casino size: 94,000 sq. ft.
Cache Creek Resort (200 rooms) Slots 2,347
Table Games 136
GM: Randy Takemoto

Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians
CAHUILLA CREEK CASINO
52702 Hwy. 371
Anza, CA 92539
Mailing: PO Box 390854
Anza, CA 92539-0854
Phone: 951-763-1200
Fax: 951-763-2050
www.cahuillacasino.com
Casino size: 14,000 sq. ft.
Slots 310
GM: Leonardo Pasquarelli

Pauma Band of Mission Indians
CASINO PAUMA
777 Pauma Reservation Rd.
Pauma Valley, CA 92061
Mailing: PO Box 1067
Pauma Valley, CA 92061-1067
Phone: 760-742-2177
Toll Free: 877-687-2862
Fax: 760-742-2438
www.casinopauma.com
Casino size: 42,500 sq. ft.
Slots 1,052
Table Games 20
GM: James Kikumoto

Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of Trinidad
CHER-AE HEIGHTS CASINO
27 Scenic Drive
Trinidad, CA 95570
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Mailing: PO Box 610
Trinidad, CA 95570-0630
Phone: 707-677-3611
Toll Free: 800-684-2464
Fax: 707-677-4172
www.cheraeheightscasino.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Slots 317
Table Games 13
Bingo 800 seats
GM: Ron Badouin

Chicken Ranch Band of Me-wuk Indians
CHICKEN RANCH BINGO & CASINO
16929 Chicken Ranch Rd.
Jamestown, CA 95327-9779
Phone: 209-984-3000
Toll Free: 800-75-BINGO
Fax: 209-984-4158
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Slots 300
Bingo 900 seats
GM: Corena Raymond

Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians
CHUKCHANSI GOLD RESORT & CASINO
711 Lucky Lane
Coarsegold, CA 93614
Phone: 559-692-5200
Toll Free: 866-7 WIN WIN (7946-946)
Fax: 559-692-5328
www.chukchansigold.com
Casino size: 56,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (200 Rooms)
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Table Games 50
GM: Matt Olson

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
CHUMASH CASINO RESORT
3400 E. Hwy. 246
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-9405
Phone: 805-686-0855
Toll Free: 800-248-6274
Fax: 805-686-3859
www.chumashcasino.com
Casino size: 280,000 sq. ft.
Chumash Casino Resort Hotel (206 rooms)
Slots 2,000
Table Games 62
Bingo 1,000 seat
COO & GM: Bill Peters

Colusa Indian Community
COLUSA CASINO RESORT
3770 Hwy.45
Colusa, CA 95932-1267
Phone: 530-458-8844
Toll Free: 800-655-8946
Fax: 530-458-2018
www.colusacasino.com
Colusa Casino Hotel (55 rooms)
Casino size: 66,000 sq. ft.
Slots 895
Table Games 12
Bingo 700 seats
GM: Victor Fernandez

Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians
COYOTE VALLEY CASINO
7751 N. State St.
Redwood Valley, CA 95470-9663
Mailing: PO Box 388
Calpella, CA 95418-0388
Phone: 707-485-0700
Toll Free: 800-332-9683
Fax: 707-485-0730
www.coyotevalleycasino.com
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
Slots 250
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GM: Norman Runyan

Alturas Rancheria
DESERT ROSE CASINO
901 County Rd. 56
Alturas, CA 96101
Mailing: PO Box 910
Alturas, CA 96101-0910
Phone: 530-233-3141
Fax: 530-233-3170
Casino size: 6,200 sq. ft.
Slots 130
GM: Shawn Normington

Susanville Indian Rancheria
DIAMOND MOUNTAIN CASINO
900 Skyline Drive
Susanville, CA 96130
Phone: 530-252-1100
Toll Free: 877-319-8514
Fax: 530-252-1236
www.diamondmountaincasino.com
Casino size: 26,000 sq. ft.
Slots 225
Table Games 3
Bingo 60 seats
GM: Campbell Jamieson

Tule River Indian Tribe
EAGLE MOUNTAIN CASINO
681 S Tule Rd.
Porterville, CA 93257
Mailing: PO Box 1659
Porterville, CA 93258-1659
Phone: 559-788-6220
Toll Free: 800-903-3353
Fax: 559-788-6223
www.eaglemtncasino.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 500 seats
GM: Tom Stewart

Elk Valley Rancheria
ELK VALLEY CASINO
2500 Howland Hill Rd.
Crescent City, CA 95531-9241
Phone: 707-464-1020
Toll Free: 888-574-2744
Fax: 707-465-5188
www.elkvalleycasino.com
Casino size: 23,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 250 seats
CEO: Gerry Nailon

Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
FANTASY SPRINGS CASINO
84-245 Indio Springs Pkwy.
Indio, CA 92203-3499
Phone: 760-342-5000
Toll Free: 800-827-2946
Fax: 760-238-5606
www.fantasyspringsresort.com
Casino size: 100,000 sq. ft.
Palm Spring Hotel (250 rooms)
Slots 2,000
Table Games 40
Bingo 750 seats
GM: Paul Ryan

Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
FEATHER FALLS CASINO
3 Alverda Dr.
Oroville, CA 95966-9379
Phone: 530-533-3885
Toll Free: 877-652-4646
Fax: 530-533-4465
www.featherfallscasino.com
Casino size: 118,112 sq. ft.
The Lodge (72 Rooms)
Slots 1,000
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CEO: Mr. Baxter

Berry Creek Rancheria of the Tyme-Maidu Tribe
GOLD COUNTRY CASINO
4020 Olive Hwy.
Oroville, CA 95966-5527
Phone: 530-534-9892
Toll Free: 800-334-9400
Fax: 530-534-9173
www.goldcountrycasino.com
Casino size: 60,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (87 rooms)
Slots 900
Table Games 30
Bingo 300 seats
GM: Peter Fordham

Campo Kumeyaay Nation
GOLDEN ACORN CASINO
1800 Golden Acorn Way
Campo, CA 91906
Phone: 866-794-6244
Toll Free: 866-7-WINBIG
Fax: 619-938-6103
www.goldenacorncasino.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Joseph O’Neill

Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians
HARRAH’S RINCON CASINO & RESORT
777 Harrah’s Rincon Way
Valley Center, CA 92082
Phone: 760-751-3100
Toll Free: 877-777-2457
Fax: 760-751-3200
www.harrahs.com
Casino size: 55,000 sq. ft.
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Slots 2,050
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GM: Janet Beronio

Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
HAVASU LANDING RESORT & CASINO
5 Main St.
Havasu Lake, CA 92363
Mailing: PO Box 1707
Havasu Lake, CA 92363-1707
Phone: 760-858-4593
Toll Free: 800-307-3610
Fax: 760-858-4295
www.havasulanding.com
Casino size: 6,900 sq. ft.
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GM: Jackie Gordon

Round Valley Indian Tribes
HIDDEN OAKS CASINO
76700 Hwy. 162
Covelo, CA 95428
Mailing: PO Box 95
Covelo, CA 95428
Phone: 707-983-6898
Slots 100
GM: Louis Whipple

Hopland Band of Pomo Indians
HOPLAND SHO-KA-WAH CASINO
13101 Nokonis Rd.
Hopland, CA 95449-9725
Phone: 707-744-1395
Toll Free: 888-SHOKAWAH
Fax: 707-744-1150
www.shokawah.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Slots 550
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Bingo 100 seats
GM: John O’Neill

Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
JACKSON RANCHERIA CASINO HOTEL
12222 New York Ranch Rd.
Jackson, CA 95642-9407
Phone: 209-223-1677
Toll Free: 800-822-9466
Fax: 209-223-3424
www.jacksoncasino.com
Casino size: 257,789 sq. ft.
Jackson Rancheria Hotel (146 rooms)
Slots 1,500
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Bingo 800 seats
CEO: Rich Hoffman
GM: Michael Graninge

Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
KONOCTI VISTA CASINO, RESORT & MARINA
2755 Mission Rancheria Rd.
Lakeport, CA 95453
Mailing: PO Box 57
Finley, CA 95435-0057
Phone: 707-262-1900
Toll Free: 800-FUN-1950
Fax: 707-262-1978
www.kvcasino.com
Casino size: 12,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (80 rooms)
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Interim GM: Linda West

La Posta Band of Mission Indians
LA POSTA CASINO
777 Crestwood Rd.
Boulevard, CA 91905
Phone: 619-824-4100
Fax: 619-824-4138
www.lapostacasino.com
Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.
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GM: James Hill

Hoopa Valley Tribe
LUCKY BEAR CASINO
Shopping Center Hwy. 96
Hoopa, CA 95546-0729
Phone: 530-625-5198
Fax: 530-625-4050
www.hoopa-nsn.gov/enterprises/casino.htm
Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.
Lucky Bear Hotel (21 rooms)
Slots 90
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GM: Norvin Hostler

Smith River Rancheria
LUCKY 7 CASINO
350 N. Indian Rd.
Smith River, CA 95567-9525
Phone: 707-487-7777
Toll Free: 866-777-7170
Fax: 707-487-5007
www.lucky7casino.com
Casino size: 45,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 130 seats
GM: Terry Westrick

Big Sandy Rancheria Band of Western Mono Indians
MONO WIND CASINO
37302 Rancheria Lane
Auberry, CA 93602-1060
Mailing: PO Box 1060
Auberry, CA 93602-0337
Phone: 559-855-4350
Fax: 559-855-4351
www.monowind.com
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
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Morongo Band of Mission Indians
MORONGO CASINO RESORT & SPA
49500 Seminole Dr.
Cabazon, CA 92230-2200
Phone: 888-667-6646
Toll Free: 800-252-4499
Fax: 951-755-5735
www.morongocasinoresort.com
Casino size: 148,000 sq. ft.
Morongo Resort (310 rooms)
Slots 2465
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Bingo 300 seats
GM: David Brents

Bishop Paiute Tribe
PAIUTE PALACE CASINO
2742 N. Sierra Hwy.
Bishop, CA 93514
Phone: 760-873-4150
Toll Free: 888-372-4883 (PAIUTE)
Fax: 760-873-3560
www.paiutepalace.com
Casino size: 16,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Anthony Pena

Pala Band of Mission Indians
PALA CASINO RESORT & SPA
11154 Hwy. 76
Pala, CA 92059
Mailing: 35008 Pala Temecula Rd.
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Pala, CA 92059-0040
Phone: 760-510-5100
Toll Free: 877-946-7252
Fax: 760-510-5190
www.palacasino.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (507 rooms)
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CEO: Bill Bembenek

Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians
PECHANGA RESORT & CASINO
45000 Pechanga Parkway
Temecula, CA 92592-5810
Mailing: PO Box 9041
Temecula, CA 92589-9041
Phone: 951-693-1819
Toll Free: 877-711-2WIN
Fax: 951-695-7410
www.pechanga.com
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GM: Rudy Prieto

Pit River Tribe
PIT RIVER CASINO
20265 Tamarack Ave.
Burney, CA 96013-4064
Phone: 530-335-2334
Toll Free: 888-245-2992
Fax: 530-335-2362
www.pitrivercasino.com
Casino size: 9,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Mike Avelar

Quechan Indian Nation
QUECHAN CASINO RESORT
525 Algodones Rd.
Winterhaven, CA 92283
Phone: 760-572-7777
Toll Free: 877-783-2426
Fax: 760-572-2471
www.playqcr.com
Casino size: 297,000 sq. ft. Quechan Resort (166 rooms) Slots 1,000
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CEO: Bryan Parrish

Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians
RED EARTH CASINO
3089 Norm Niver Rd.
Salton City, CA 92274
Phone: 760-395-1200
Fax: 760-398-1269
www.redearthcasino.com
Casino size: 14,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Dave Seufert

Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria
RED FOX CASINO
200 Cahto Dr.
Laytonville, CA 95454
Mailing: PO Box 1763
Laytonville, CA 95454-1763
Phone: 707-984-6800
Toll Free: 888-473-3369 (RED FOX)
Fax: 707-984-6500
www.redfoxcasino.net
Casino size: 3,600 sq. ft.
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GM: Michael Hunter

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
RED HAWK CASINO
1 Red Hawk Parkway
Placerville, CA 95667
Phone: 530-677-2580
Toll Free: 888-573-3495
Fax: 530-676-8033
www.redhawkcasino.com
Casino size: 88,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Tracy Mimno

Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians
RIVER ROCK CASINO
3250 Hwy. 128 East
Geyserville, CA 95441
Mailing: PO Box 908
Healdsburg, CA 95448-0908
Phone: 707-857-2777
Toll Free: 877-883-7777
Fax: 707-857-2726
www.riverrockcasino.com
Casino size: 35,500 sq. ft.
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CEO: David Fendrick

Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians
ROBINSON RANCHERIA RESORT & CASINO
1545 E. Highway 20
Nice, CA 95464-8619
Mailing: PO Box 4017
Nice, CA 95464-4017
Phone: 707-262-4000
Toll Free: 800-809-3636
Fax: 707-275-9100
www.robinsonrancheria.com
Casino size: 93,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (48 rooms)
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GM: David Rose

Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians
ROLLING HILLS CASINO
2655 Barham Ave.
Corning, CA 96021-9000
Phone: 530-528-3500
Toll Free: 888-331-6400
Fax: 530-824-2473
www.rollinghillscasino.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
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CEO: Bruce Thomas

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
SAN MANUEL INDIAN BINGO & CASINO
777 San Manuel Blvd.
Highland, CA 92346-1763
Phone: 909-864-5050
Toll Free: 800-359-2464
Fax: 909-862-9147
www.sanmanuel.com
Casino size: 480,000 sq. ft.
Slots 3,300
Table Games 146
Bingo 2,500 seats
GM: Ron Mastandrea

Lytton Rancheria of California
SAN PABLO LYTTON CASINO
13255 San Pablo Ave.
San Pablo, CA 94806-3907
Phone: 510-215-7888
Fax: 510-215-4542
www.sanpablolytton.com
Casino size: 31,419 sq. ft.
Slots 1,342
Table Games 13
GM: Kathi Hamel

Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel
SANTA YSABEL CASINO
255575 Hwy. 79
Santa Ysabel, CA 92070
Phone: 760-787-0909
Fax: 760-782-0929
www.santaysabelcasino.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
Slots 349
Table Games 6
GM: David Shelette

Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians
SHERWOOD VALLEY RANCHERIA CASINO
100 Kawi Place
Willits, CA 95490-4674
Phone: 707-459-7330
Fax: 707-459-7337
www.blackbartcasino.com
Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.
Slots 231
GM: Connie Neves

Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians
SOBOBA CASINO
23333 Soboba Rd.
San Jacinto, CA 92581
Mailing: PO Box 817
San Jacinto, CA 92581-0817
Phone: 951-665-1000
Toll Free: 866-4-SOBOBA (76-2622)
Fax: 951-665-1353
www.soboba.net
Casino size: 74,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,020
Table Games 38
Bingo 299 seats
Tribal Chair: Scott Cozart
GM: Bob Frear

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
SPA RESORT & CASINO
401 E. Amado Rd.
Palm Springs, CA 92262-6414
Phone: 760-883-1000
Toll Free: 888-999-1995
Fax: 760-416-9765
www.sparesortcasino.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Spa Hotel (228 rooms)
Slots 900
Table Games 30
GM: Bill Duke

Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians
SPOTLIGHT 29 CASINO
46-200 Harrison Place
Coachella, CA 92236
Phone: 760-775-5566
Toll Free: 866-377-6829
Fax: 760-775-4638
www.spotlight29.com
Casino size: 80,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,000
Table Games 39
GM: Tom Sedlock

Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Nation
SYCUAN CASINO
5469 Casino Way
El Cajon, CA 92019-1810
Phone: 619-445-6002
Toll Free: 800 2SY-CUAN (2826)
Fax: 619-445-1394
www.sycuancasino.com
Casino size: 218,000 sq. ft. Sycuan Resort (100 rooms)
Slots 2,000
Table Games 55
Bingo 1,246 seats
GM: Sheila Howe

Table Mountain Rancheria
TABLE MOUNTAIN CASINO & BINGO
8184 Table Mountain Rd.
Friant, CA 93626
Mailing: PO Box 445
Friant, CA 93626-0445
Phone: 559-822-7777
Toll Free: 800-541-3637
Fax: 559-822-2084
www.tmcasino.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,000
Table Games 50
Bingo 600 seats
CEO: John Mayewski

Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe
TACHI PALACE HOTEL & CASINO
17225 Jersey Ave.
Lemoore, CA 93245-9760
Mailing: PO Box 308
Lemoore, CA 93245-0308
Phone: 559-924-7751
Toll Free: 866-4-PALACE
Fax: 559-924-6692
www.tachipalace.net
Casino size: 195,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,072
Table Games 48
Bingo 1200 seat
GM: Neil Narter

United Auburn Indian Community
THUNDER VALLEY CASINO
1200 Athens Ave
Lincoln, CA 95648
Phone: 916-408-7777
Toll Free: 877-468-8777
Fax: 916-408-8370
www.thundervalleyresort.com
Casino size: 200,000 sq. ft.
Slots 3,000
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Management: C.J. Graham

Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians
TWIN PINE CASINO
22223 Hwy. 29
Middletown, CA 95461-9754
Mailing: PO Box 789
Middletown, CA 95461-0789
Phone: 707-987-0197
Toll Free: 800-564-4872
Fax: 707-987-0375
www.twinpine.com
Casino size: 49,410 sq. ft.
Slots 514
Table Games 12
GM: Rick Howard

San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians
VALLEY VIEW CASINO
16300 Nyemii Pass Rd.
Valley Center, CA 92082-2379
Phone: 760-291-5500
Toll Free: 866-843-9946
Fax: 760-291-5615
www.valleyviewcasino.com
Casino size: 124,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,000
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GM: Bruce Howard

Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
VIEJAS CASINO
5000 Willows Rd.
Alpine, CA 91901-1656
Phone: 619-445-5400
Toll Free: 800-847-6537
Fax: 619-659-1954
www.viejas.com
Casino size: 327,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,000
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Bingo 720 seats

Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians
WINNEDUMAH WINN’S CASINO
135 Hwy. 395 North
Fort Independence, CA 93526
Phone: 760-878-2483
Slots 48
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Bingo 70 seats
GM: Israel Naylor

Redding Rancheria
WIN-RIVER CASINO BINGO
2100 Redding Rancheria Rd.
Redding, CA 96001-5530
Phone: 530-243-3377
Toll Free: 800-280-8946
Fax: 530-246-9285
www.win-river.com
Casino size: 80,000 sq. ft. Slots 1,026
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Bingo 300 seats
GM: Gary Hayward

COLORADO
Class II & III

Southern Ute Tribe
SKY UTE CASINO RESORT
14826 Hwy. 172 N.
Ignacio, CO 81137-0340
Mailing: PO Box 340
Ignacio, CO 81137-0340
Phone: 970-563-3000
Toll Free: 888-842-4180
Fax: 970-563-9546
www.skyutecasino.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
Sky Ute Lodge (140 rooms)
Slots 650
Table Games 12
Bingo 190 seats
Tribal Chair: Pearl Casias
GM: Madilenia Chavarillo

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
UTE MOUNTAIN CASINO HOTEL & RESORT
3 Weeminuche Dr.
Towaoc, CO 81334-9999
Phone: 970-565-8800
Toll Free: 800-258-8007
Fax: 970-565-6553
www.utemountaincasino.com
Casino size: 46,000 sq. ft.
Slots 801
Table Games 15
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Gerald Pond

CONNECTICUT
Class II & III

Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
FOXWOODS RESORT CASINO & MGM GRAND AT FOXWOODS
39 Norwich Westerly Rd.
Mashantucket, CT 06338
Mailing: PO Box 3777
Mashantucket, CT 06338-3777
Phone: 860-312-3000
Toll Free: 800-FOXWOODS
Fax: 860-312-4323
www.foxwoods.com
Casino size: 340,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (1,416 rooms)
Great Cedar Hotel  
Grand Pequot Tower
Slots 6,440
Table Games 372
Bingo 3,500 seats
President & CEO: Scott Butera

Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut
MOHEGAN SUN CASINO
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd.
Uncasville, CT 06382-1355
Phone: 860-862-8000
Toll Free: 888-226-7711
Fax: 860-862-7419
www.mohegansun.com
Casino size: 350,000 sq. ft.
Mohegan Sun Hotel (1,176 rooms)
Slots 6,405
Table Games 377
CEO: Jeffrey Hartmann

FLORIDA
Class II & Class III

Seminole Tribe of Florida
BIG CYPRESS CASINO
Government Road
Highway 833
Clewiston, FL 33440
Phone: 954-214-8817
Casino size: 5,610 sq. ft.
Slots 21
GM: Tiger Tonnie

Miccosukee Tribe Indians of Florida
MICCOSUKEE RESORT & GAMING CENTER
500 SW 177th. Ave.
Miami, FL 33194-2800
Phone: 305-222-4600
Toll Free: 800-741-4600
Fax: 305-226-9254
www.miccosukee.com
Casino size: 67,000 sq. ft.
Miccosukee Resort (292 rooms) Slots 1900
Table Games 30
Bingo 800 seats
Tribal Chair: Colley Billie
GM: Daniel Sherlock

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE CASINO BRIGHTON
Highway 721 Brighton Indian Reservation
17735 Reservation Rd.
Okeechobee, FL 34974-8908
Phone: 863-467-9998
Toll Free: 866-2-CASINO
Fax: 863-467-1197
www.seminolecasinobrighton.com
Casino size: 27,000 sq. ft.
Slots 380
Table Games 7
Bingo 480 seats
GM: Marty Johns

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE CASINO COCONUT CREEK
5550 NW 40th.St.
Coconut Creek, FL 33073-3815
Phone: 954-977-6700
Toll Free: 866-222-2466
Fax: 954-970-7721
www.seminolecoconutcreekcasino.com
Casino size:  45,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,746
Table Games 94
GM: Stephen Bonner

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE CASINO HOLLYWOOD
4150 North State Road 7
Hollywood, FL 33021
Phone:  954-961-3220
Fax:  954-894-1125
Toll Free:  866-222-7466
www.seminolehollywoodcasino.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq.ft.
Gaming Machines 1,140
Table Games 25
Bingo Seats 298
GM: Adrian Fox

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE CASINO IMMOKALEE
506 S. First St.
Immokalee, FL 34142
Mailing: PO Box 869
Immokalee, FL 34143-0869
Phone: 941-657-1313
Toll Free: 800-218-0007
Fax: 941-658-1515
www.theseminolecasino.com
Casino size: 75,600 sq. ft. Gaming Machines 1,162
Table Games 46
GM: Tony Alves

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE HARD ROCK CASINO—HOLLYWOOD
1 Seminole Way
Hollywood, FL 33314
Phone: 954-327-7625
Toll Free: 800-937-0010
Fax: 954-327-7655
www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com
Casino size: 130,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,500
Table Games 137
GM: Larry Frank

Seminole Tribe of Florida
SEMINOLE HARD ROCK CASINO—TAMPA
5223 N. Orient Rd.
Tampa, FL 33610-4139
Phone: 813-627-7625
Toll Free: 866-762-5463
Fax: 813-627-7655
www.hardrockhotelcasino-
tampa.com
Casino size: 190,000 sq. ft.
Slots 4,100
Table Games 142
GM: John Fontana

IDAHO
Class II & III

Shoshone-Bannock Tribe
BANNOCK PEAK CASINO
1707 W. County Rd.
Fort Hall, ID 83204
Mailing: 1707 W. County Rd.
PO Box 868
Fort Hall, ID 83203-0868
Phone: 208-237-8778
Toll Free: 800-497-4231
Fax: 208-237-8207
www.forthallcasino.com
Casino size: 2,700 sq. ft.
Slots 66
GM: Keith Dollar

Nez Perce Tribe
CLEARWATER RIVER CASINO
17500 Nez Perce Hwy
Mailing: PO Box 365
Lewiston, ID 83501-7947
Phone: 208-746-0723
Fax: 208-746-5715
www.crcasino.com
Casino size: 81,000 sq. ft.
Slots 640
Bingo 300
GM: Cheryl Cunningham

Coeur d’Alene Tribe
COEUR D’ALENE CASINO RESORT HOTEL
27068 Southwest US Hwy. 95
Worley, ID 83876-0236
Mailing: PO Box 236
Worley, ID 83876-0236
Phone: 208-686-0248
Toll Free: 800-523-2464
Fax: 208-686-5106
www.cdacasino.com
Casino size: 100,000 sq. ft.
Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel (202 rooms)
Slots 1,600  
Bingo 800 seats
Tribal Chair: James Allen

Nez Perce Tribe
COYOTE CASINO (IT’SE YE-YE)
Highway 12 and Idaho St.
419 Third Street
Kamiah, ID 83536-0253
Mailing: Po Box 1540
Kamiah, ID 83536-0253
Phone: 208-935-7860
Toll Free: 877-678-7423
Fax: 208-935-7943
www.iyycasino.com
Casino size: 5,868 sq. ft.
Slots 110
GM: Cheryl Cunningham

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
FORT HALL CASINO
Interstate 15, Exit 80
Simplot Road
Fort Hall, ID 83203
Mailing: PO Box 868
Fort Hall, ID 83203-0868
Phone: 208-237-8778
Toll Free: 800-497-4231
Fax: 208-237-8207
www.forthallcasino.com
Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 300 seats
GM: Andrea Ramone

Kootenai Tribe
KOOTENAI RIVER INN & CASINO
7169 Plaza St.
Bonners Ferry, ID 83805-8598
Phone: 208-267-8511
Toll Free: 800-346-5668
Fax: 208-267-3744
www.kootenairiverinn.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Kootenai River Inn (65 rooms) Slots 500
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GM: Tom Turpin

Shoshone Bannock Tribe
SAGE HILL CASINO
Interstate 15 Exit 89
Blackfoot, ID 83221
Mailing: PO Box 868
Fort Hall, ID 83203
Phone 208-237-4998
Slots 100
GM: Keith Dollar

IOWA
Class II & III

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
CASINO OMAHA
17214 210th St
Onawa, IA 51040
Mailing: PO Box 89
Onawa, IA 51040-0089
Phone: 712-423-3700
Toll Free: 800-858-8238
Fax: 712-423-3128
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
Slots 415
GM: Gloria Harwell

Sac & Fox Tribe of Mississippi in Iowa
MESKWAKI BINGO CASINO HOTEL
Tama, IA 52339-9697
Phone: 641-484-2108
Toll Free: 800-728-4263
Fax: 641-484-1618
www.meskwaki.com
Casino size: 127,669 sq. ft.
Meskwaki Hotel (408 rooms) Slots 1,415
Table Games 45
Bingo 750 seats
GM: Patrick Brown

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
WINNAVEGAS CASINO
1500 330th  St.
Sloan, IA 51055-8056
Phone: 712-428-9466
Toll Free: 800-468-9466
Fax: 712-428-4219
www.winnavegas.biz
Casino size: 45,000 sq. ft.
Winna Vegas Inn (52 rooms)
Slots 650
Table Games 20
Bingo 400 seats
GM: Catherine Colesrud

KANSAS
Class II & III

Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma
7th STREET CASINO
777 North 7th Street Trafficway
Kansas City, KS  66101-3036
Phone:  913-371-3500
Fax:  913-371-3934
www.7th-streetcasino.com
Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.
Slots 600
GM: Jean Yuen

Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraskas
CASINO WHITE CLOUD
777 Jackpot Drive
White Cloud, KS 66094-4002
Phone: 785-595-3430
Toll Free: 877-652-6115
Fax: 785-595-3431
Casino size: 21,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 6
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Mike Frederic

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
GOLDEN EAGLE CASINO
1121 Goldfinch Drive
Horton, KS 66439-9537
Phone: 785-486-6601
Toll Free: 888-464-5825
Fax: 785-486-6662
www.goldeneaglecasino.com
Casino size: 45,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 368 seats
GM: Stephanie Cooper

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
PRAIRIE BAND CASINO & RESORT
12305 150th Rd.
Mayetta, KS 66509-8815
Phone: 785-966-7777
Toll Free: 888-727-4946
Fax: 785-966-7640
www.pbpgaming.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
Harrah’s Prairie Band Hotel (298 rooms)
Slots 1,100
Table Games 231
GM: David Albrecht

Sac & Fox Nation of Mississippi
SAC & FOX CASINO
1322 US Hwy. 75
Powhattan, KS 66527-9624
Phone: 785-467-8000
Toll Free: 800-990-2946
Fax: 785-467-5001
www.sacandfoxcasino.com
Casino size: 106,000 sq. ft.
Slots 830
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GM: Peggy Houston

LOUISIANA
Class II & III

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
COUSHATTA CASINO RESORT
777 Coushatta Dr.
Kinder, LA 70648
Mailing: PO Box 1510
Kinder, LA 70648-1510
Phone: 337-738-1370
Toll Free: 800-58-GRAND
Fax: 337-738-7377
www.coushattacasinoresort.com
Casino size: 107,600 sq. ft.
Hotel (702 rooms)
Coushatta Inn (195 rooms)
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Table Games 90
Tribal Chair: Kevin Sickey
GM: Conrad Granito Jr.

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
CYPRESS BAYOU CASINO
832 Martin Luther King Rd.
Charenton, LA 70523-0519
Mailing: PO Box 519
Charenton, LA 70523-0519
Phone: 337-923-7284
Toll Free: 800-284-4386
Fax: 337-923-7882
www.cypressbayou.com
Casino size: 232,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Tom Odisho

Tunica Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
PARAGON CASINO RESORT
711 Paragon Place
Marksville, LA 71351-6004
Phone: 318-253-1946
Toll Free: 800-946-1946
Fax: 318-253-2033
www.paragoncasinoresort.com
Casino size: 72,120 sq. ft.
Paragon Casino Resort (615 rooms)
Slots 2,200
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GM: Peter Fordham

MICHIGAN
Class II & III

Bay Mills Indian Community
BAY MILLS RESORT & CASINO
11386 W. Lakeshore Dr.
Brimley, MI 49715-9308
Phone: 906-248-3715
Toll Free: 888-422-9645
Fax: 906-248-3720
www.4baymills.com
Casino size: 17,000 sq. ft.
Bay Mills Resort (218 rooms)
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Bingo 500 seats GM: Rod Jones

Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi
FIREKEEPERS CASINO
11177 East Michigan Ave.
Battle Creek, MI 49014
Phone: 269-962-0000
Toll Free: 877-FKC-8777
Fax: 269-660-5797
www.firekeeperscasino.com
Casino size: 107,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 250 seats
GM: R. Bruce McKee

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians< br />FOUR WINDS CASINO RESORT
11111 Wilson Rd.
New Buffalo, MI 49117
Toll Free: 866-494-6371
Fax: 269-926-5463
www.fourwindscasino.com
Casino size: 135,000 sq. ft.
Four Winds Resort (165 rooms)
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GM: Matthew Harknes

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
FOUR WINDS HARTFORD
68600 Red Arrow Highway
Hartford, MI  49057
Toll Free:  866-494-6371
www.fourwindscasino.com/hartford
Casino size: 52,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Matthew Harkness

Gun Lake Band of Potawatomi Indians
GUN LAKE CASINO
1123–129th Avenue
Wayland, MI 49348
Phone: 269-792-7777    
www.gunlakecasino.com    
Casino size: 83,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Rob McDermott

Hannahville Tribe of Potawatomi Indians
ISLAND RESORT & CASINO
W399 Hwy. 2 & 41
Harris, MI 49845-0351
Mailing: PO Box 351
Harris, MI 49845-0351
Phone: 906-466-2941
Toll Free: 800-682-6040
Fax: 906-466-2945
www.islandresortandcasino.com
Casino size: 408,520 sq. ft.
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Slots 1,400
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Bingo 350 seats
GM: Tom McChesney

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
KEWADIN CASINO—CHRISTMAS
7761 Candy Cane Lane
Christmas, MI 49862-8946
Phone: 906-387-5475
Toll Free: 800-539-2346
Fax: 906-387-4592
www.kewadinchristmas.com
Casino size: 8,416 sq. ft.
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COO: Anthony Goetz

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
KEWADIN CASINO—HESSEL
33995 Three Mile Rd.
Hessel, MI 49745
Mailing: PO Box 189
Hessel, MI 49745-0789
Phone: 906-484-2903
Toll Free: 800-539-2346
Fax: 906-635-7053
www.kewadinhessel.com
Casino size: 3,800 sq. ft.
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Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
KEWADIN CASINO—MANISTIQUE
US Route 2 East
Manistique, MI 49854-9738
Phone: 906-341-5510
Toll Free: 800-539-2346
Fax: 906-635-4947
www.kewadinmanistique.com
Casino size: 9,900 sq. ft.
Slots 275
Table Games 8
Bingo 50 seats  
GM: Lisa Fisher

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
KEWADIN VEGAS CASINO —SAULT STE. MARIE
2186 Shunk Rd.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783-9398
Phone: 906-632-0530
Toll Free: 800-539-2346
Fax: 906-635-4959
www.kewadinsault.com
Casino size: 39,000 sq. ft.
Kewadon Hotel (318 rooms)
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Bingo 400 seats  
GM: Steve Sprecker  

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
KEWADIN SHORES CASINO—ST. IGNACE
3015 Mackinac Trail
St. Ignace. MI 49781-9758
Phone: 906-643-7071
Toll Free: 800-539-2346
Fax: 906-643-8472
www.kewadin.com/st.ignace
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft. Kewadin Inn of St. Ignace (70 rooms)
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GM: Steve Sprecker

Bay Mills Indian Community
KINGS CLUB CASINO
12140 W. Lakeshore Dr.
Brimley, MI 49715-9319
Phone: 906-248-3715
Toll Free: 888-422-9645
Fax: 906-248-3520
www.4baymills.com
Casino size: 7,400 sq. ft.
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Tribal Chair: Jeff Parker
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Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
LAC VIEUX DESERT RESORT CASINO
N5384 Highway 45 N
Watersmeet, MI 49969-0129
Mailing: PO Box 129
Watersmeet, MI 49969-0129
Phone: 906-358-4226
Toll Free: 800-583-4785
Fax: 906-358-0288
www.lvdcasino.com
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft. Dancing Eagle Hotel (135 rooms) Slots 749
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GM: John Nueman

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Chippewa Indians
LEELANAU SANDS CASINO
2521 NW Bayshore Dr.
Peshawbestown, MI 49682-9366
Phone: 231-534-8100
Toll Free: 800-922-2WIN
Fax: 231-534-8103
www.casino2win.com
Casino size: 30,581 sq. ft.
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Bingo  200 seats
GM: John Kukl

Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
LITTLE RIVER CASINO RESORT
2700 Orchard Hwy.
Manistee, MI 49660-9752
Mailing: PO Box 417
Manistee, MI 49660-0417
Phone: 231-723-1535
Toll Free: 888-568-2244
Fax: 231-398-2593
www.littlerivercasino.com
Casino size: 44,000 sq. ft.
Little River Casino Resort (292 rooms)
Slots 1,500
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GM: Tom Davis

Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians
ODAWA CASINO RESORT
1760 Lears Rd.
Petoskey, MI 49770-9215
Phone: 231-439-6100
Toll Free: 877-442-6464
Fax: 231-439-6132
www.odawacasino.com
Casino size: 33,000 sq. ft.
Odawa Hotel (127 rooms)
Slots 1,500
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GM: David Wol

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
OJIBWA CASINO RESORT (BIG BUCKS)
16449 Michigan Ave.
Baraga, MI 49908-9664
Phone: 906-353-6333
Toll Free: 800-323-8045
Fax: 906-353-4246
www.ojibwacasino.com
Casino size: 17,000 sq. ft.
Ojibwa Hotel (92 rooms)
Slots 325
Table Games 8
Bingo 450 seats
GM: Robert Mudd

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
OJIBWA CASINO MARQUETTE
105 Acre Trail
Marquette, MI 49855-9577
Phone: 906-249-4200
Toll Free: 888-560-9905
Fax: 906-249-3032
www.ojibwacasino.com
Casino Size: 10,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Dave Haataja

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
SAGANING EAGLES LANDING CASINO
2690 Worth Rd.
Standish, MI 48658
Toll Free: 888-732-4537
Fax: 989-846-4854
www.saganing-eagleslanding.com
Casino size: 32,000 sq. ft.
Slots 800
Table Games 40
CEO: Andy Asselin

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
SOARING EAGLE CASINO
6800 Soaring Eagle Blvd.
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858-8432
Phone: 989-775-7777
Toll Free: 888-732-4537
Fax: 989-775-5383
www.soaringeaglecasino.com
Casino size: 210,000 sq. ft.
Soaring Eagle Resort (514 rooms) Slots 4,200
Table Games 78
Bingo 800 seats
CEO: Andy Asselin

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Chippewa Indians
TURTLE CREEK CASINO & HOTEL
7741 M-72 East
Williamsburg, MI 49690-9395
Phone: 231-534-0000
Toll Free: 800-922-2WIN
Fax: 231-534-8889
www.turtlecreekcasino.com
www.casino2win.com
Casino size: 74,000 sq. ft.
Turtle Creek Hotel (137 rooms) Slots 1,331
Table Games 41
GM: Richard Bailey

MINNESOTA
Class II & III

Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
BLACK BEAR CASINO & HOTEL
1785 Hwy. 210
Carlton, MN 55718-8161
Mailing: PO Box 777
Carlton, MN 55718-0777
Phone: 218-878-2327
Toll Free: 888-771-0777
Fax: 218-878-2414
www.blackbearcasinohotel.com
Casino size: 88,000 sq. ft.
Black Bear Hotel (250 rooms)
Slots 2,000
Table Games 20
Bingo 600 seats
GM: Joe Quiroli

Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippew
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FOND-DU-LUTH CASINO
129 E. Superior St.
Duluth, MN 55802-2127
Phone: 218-722-0280
Toll Free: 800-873-0280
Fax: 218-720-5150
www.fondduluthcasino.com
Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.
Slots 745
Table Games 4
GM: Maurice Ojibway

Bois Forte Band of Chippewa
FORTUNE BAY RESORT CASINO
1430 Bois Forte Rd.
Tower, MN 55790-8111
Phone: 218-753-6400
Toll Free: 800-992-PLAY
Fax: 218-753-6404
www.fortunebay.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Fortune Bay Resort (114 rooms)
Hideaway Pines Group Lodging
Slots 800
Table Games 10
Bingo 200 seats
GM: Norman Adams

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
GRAND CASINO HINCKLEY
777 Lady Luck Dr. Hwy 48
Hinckley, MN 55037
Phone: 320-384-7777
Toll Free: 800-472-6321
Fax: 320-384-4857
www.grandcasinosmn.com
Casino size: 68,000 sq. ft.
Two Hotels (809 rooms)
Slots 2,400
Table Games 28
Bingo 330 seats
GM: Mel Towle

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
GRAND CASINO MILLE LACS
777 Grand Ave.
Onamia, MN 56359-4500
Phone: 320-532-7777
Toll Free: 800-626-LUCK
Fax: 320-532-8568
www.grandcasinosmn.com
Casino size: 68,000 sq. ft.
Grand Casino Mille Lacs Hotel (284 rooms)
Eddy’s Lake Mille Lacs Resort (80 rooms)
Slots 1,904
Table Games 24
Bingo 280 seats
GM: Ronda Weizenegger

Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
GRAND PORTAGE LODGE & CASINO
70 Casino Dr.
Grand Portage, MN 55605-0233
Mailing: PO Box 233
Grand Portage, MN 55605-0234
Phone: 218-475-2401
Toll Free: 800-543-1384
Fax: 218-475-2531
www.grandportage.com
Casino size: 15,268 sq. ft.
Grand Portage Lodge (100 rooms)
Slots 460
Bingo 300 seats
GM: Steve Sopata

Lower Sioux Indian Community
JACKPOT JUNCTION CASINO HOTEL
39375 County Hwy. 24
Morton, MN 56270
Mailing: PO Box 420
Morton, MN 56270-0420
Phone: 507-644-8000
Toll Free: 800-946-2274
Fax: 507-644-8024
www.jackpotjunction.com
Casino size: 440,000 sq. ft.
Lower Sioux Lodge (276 rooms)
Slots 1,250
Table Games 31
Bingo 375 seats
President: Gabe Prescott
GM: Brian Pendleton

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
LITTLE SIX CASINO
2354 Sioux Trail Northwest
Prior Lake, MN 55372-9004
Phone: 952-445-6000
Toll Free: 800-LITTLE6
Fax: 952-403-5535
www.littlesixcasino.com
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.
Slots 800
Table Games 8
CEO: Ed Stevenson

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
MYSTIC LAKE CASINO HOTEL
2400 Mystic Lake Blvd.
Prior Lake, MN 55372-9004
Phone: 952-445-9000
Toll Free: 800-262-7799
Fax: 952-496-7280
www.mysticlake.com
Casino size: 150,000 sq. ft.
Mystic Lake Hotel (586 rooms)
Slots 4,325
Table Games 95
Bingo 520 seats
CEO: Edward Stevenson
GM: Rich Langeliu

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
NORTHERN LIGHTS CASINO & HOTEL
6800 Y Frontage Rd. NW
Walker, MN 56484
Phone: 218-547-2744
Toll Free: 800-252-PLAY
Fax: 218-335-3101
www.northernlightscasino.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (105 rooms)
Slots 950
Table Games 16
GM: Brad Michaud

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
PALACE CASINO HOTEL
16599 69th Avenue NW
Cass Lake, MN 56633-3058
Phone: 218-335-7000
Toll Free: 877-9PALACE
Fax: 218-335-6899
www.palacecasinohotel.com
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
Palace Casino Hotel (80 rooms)
Slots 573
Table Games 4
Bingo 400 seats
GM: Donald Fairbanks

Upper Sioux Tribe
PRAIRIES EDGE CASINO
5616 Prairies Edge Lane
Granite Falls, MN 56241-0096
Phone: 320-564-2121
Toll Free: 866-293-2121
Fax: 320-564-2547
www.prairiesedgecasino.com
Casino size: 27,000 sq. ft.
Slots 700
Table Games 14
GM: Barry Joannides

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
SEVEN CLANS CASINO RED LAKE
10200 Hwy 89
Red Lake, MN 56671
Mailing: PO Box 574
Red Lake, MN 56671-0574
Phone: 218-679-2500
Toll Free: 888-679-2501
Fax: 218-679-2666
www.sevenclanscasino.com/redlake
Casino size: 6,000 sq. ft.
Slots 300
Table Games 4
GM: Adrian Omen
 
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
SEVEN CLANS CASINO, HOTEL & WATERPARK
20595 Center St. E
Thief River Falls, MN 56701
Phone: 218-681-4062
Toll Free: 800-881-0712
Fax: 218-681-1054
www.sevenclanscasino.com
Casino size: 19,222 sq. ft.
Slots 650
Table Games 9
GM: Barry McGrady

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
SEVEN CLANS CASINO WARROAD
1012 E. Lake St.
Warroad, MN 56763-2404
Phone: 218-386-3381
Toll Free: 800-815-8293
Fax: 218-386-2969
www.sevenclanscasino.com
Casino size: 19,000 sq. ft.
Slots 450
Table Games 7
GM: Donna Perkins

White Earth of Chippewa Indians
SHOOTING STAR CASINO HOTEL
777 SE Casino Rd.
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Phone: 218-935-2711
Toll Free: 800-453-7827
Fax: 218-935-2206
www.starcasino.com
Casino size: 72,000 sq. ft. Shooting
Star Hotel (390 rooms)
Slots 1,000
Table Games 23
Bingo 365 seats
GM: Eugene McArthur

Prairie Island Indian Community
TREASURE ISLAND RESORT & CASINO
5734 Sturgeon Lake Rd.
Welch, MN 55089
Mailing: PO Box 75
Red Wing, MN 55066-0075
Phone: 651-388-6300
Toll Free: 800-222-7077
Fax: 651-385-2560
www.treasureislandcasino.com
Casino size: 150,000 sq. ft.
Treasure Island Resort & Casino (480 rooms)
Slots 2,400
Table Games 51
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Mike Heavner

Leech Lake Band of Ojiwbe
WHITE OAK CASINO
45830 US Hwy. 2
Deer River, MN 56636
Phone: 218-246-9600
Toll Free: 800-653-2412
Fax: 218-335-4326
www.whiteoakcasino.com
Casino size: 15,480 sq. ft.
Slots 315
Table Games 2
GM: Steve Cash

MISSISSIPPI
Class II & III

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
BOK HOMA CASINO
1 Choctaw Road
Heidelberg, Mississippi  39439
Mailing:  PO Box 6048
Choctaw, Mississippi  39350
Phone:  601-656-5251
Toll Free:  866-447-3275
Fax:  601-656-6129
www.bokhomacasino.com
Casino size: 27,000 sq. ft.
Slots 750
GM: Alex Billy

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
SILVER STAR HOTEL & CASINO
13541 Hwy. 16 West
Choctaw, MS 39350
Mailing: PO Box 6048
Choctaw, MS 39350-6048
Phone: 601-650-1234
Toll Free: 866-44-PEARL
Fax: 601-663-0094
www.pearlriverresort.com
Casino size: 90,000 sq. ft.
Slots 2,711
Table Games 54
Tribal Chief: Beasley Denson
President & CEO: Paul Harvey

MONTANA
Class II & III

Crow Tribe
APSAALOOKE NIGHTS CASINO
71 Heritage Road
Crow Agency, MT 59022
Mailing:  PO Box 159
Crow Agency, MT 59022
Phone: 406-638-4440
Casino size: 10,000 sq
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Slots 200
AGM: Howard Hogan

Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation
BEAR PAW CASINO
Rocky Boy Agency
Box Elder, MT 59521
Mailing: PO Box 544
Box Elder, MT 59521-0544
Phone: 406-395-4863
Fax: 406-395-4915
Casino size: 2,500 sq. ft.
Slots 65
GM: Pauline Russette

Confederated Tribes of Salish & Kootenai
BEST WESTERN KWATAQNUK RESORT & CASINO
49708 US Hwy. 93 East
Polson, MT 59860
Phone: 406-883-3636
Toll Free: 800-882-6363
Fax: 406-883-9317
www.kwataqnuk.com
Best Western Hotel (112 rooms)
Casino size: 1,650 sq. ft.
Slots 118
GM: Sheila Matt

Northern Cheyenne Tribe
CHARGING HORSE CASINO & BINGO
Highway 212
Lame Deer, MT 59043-1259
Mailing: PO Box 1259
Lame Deer, MT 59043-1259
Phone: 406-477-8188
Fax: 406-477-8177
Casino size: 19,000 sq. ft.
Slots 120
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Lori Limberhand

Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of Fort Belknap
FORT BELKNAP BINGO HALL
Rte 1, Box 66
Fort Belknap. MT 59526
Phone: 406-353-2205
Toll Free: 800-343-6107
Fax: 406-353-2797
Slots 128
GM: Robert Williams Jr.

Blackfeet Nation
GLACIER PEAKS CASINO
209 N. Piegan St.
416 W. Central Avenue
Browning, MT 59417-1450
Mailing: PO Box 1450
Browning, MT 59417-1450
Phone: 406-338-2274
Toll Free: 877-238-9946
Fax: 406-338-5393
www.GlacierCash.com
Casino Size: 33,000 sq. ft
Slots 300
Table Games 3
Bingo 150 seats
GM: Dennis Fitzpatrick

Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
GRAY WOLF PEAK CASINO
20750 Hwy. 93 North
Missoula, MT 59808
Phone: 406-726-3778
Fax: 406-726-3466
www.graywolfpeak.com
Slots 130
GM: Sheila Matt

Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation
NORTHERN WINZ CASINO
11031 US Hwy. 87
Box Elder, MT 59521
Mailing: PO Box 3028
Box Elder, MT 59521
Phone: 406-395-5420
Toll Free: 866-910-9469
Fax: 406-395-5430
www.northernwinz.com
Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.
Slots 180
Bingo 100 seats
GM: Mike Devany

NEBRASKA  
Class II

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
IRON HORSE BAR & CASINO
1010 S. Main St.
Emerson, NE 68733-3654
Phone: 402-695-0180
Fax: 402-695-0189
www.winnebagocasinos.com
Casino size: 2,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 120
CEO: Brian Chamberlain

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
LUCKY 77 CASINO
200 Main St.
Walthill, NE 68067
Mailing: PO Box 477
Walthill, NE 68067
Phone: 402-846-5545
Casino size: 280 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 64
GM: Gary Lasley

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
NATIVE STAR CASINO
1500 Industrial Pkwy.
Winnebago, NE 68071
Phone: 402-878-2901
www.winnebagocasinos.com
Casino size: 600 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 95
GM: Sandra Oliveres

Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska
OHIYA CASINO
52946 Hwy. 12, Suite #2
Niobrara, NE 68760
Phone: 402-857-3860
Fax: 402-857-3862
www.ohiyacasino.com
Casino size: 14,000 sq. ft.
Slots 200 Bingo 100 seats
GM: Thelma Thomas

Rosebud Sioux Tribe
ROSEBUD CASINO
30421 US Highway 83
Valentine, NE 69201
Mailing: Highway Contract 14
Valentine, NE 69201-8900
Phone: 605-378-3800
Toll Free: 800-786-7673
Fax: 605-378-3870
www.rosebudcasino.com
Casino size: 10,500 sq. ft.
Slots 250
Table Games 5
Bingo 300 seats
President: Rodney Bordeaux
GM: Richard Lunderman

NEVADA
Class II & III

Fort Mojave Indian Tribe
AVI RESORT & CASINO
10000 Aha Macav Pkwy.
Laughlin, NV 89029
Mailing: PO Box 77011
Laughlin, NV 89028-7011
Phone: 702-535-5555
Toll Free: 800-430-0721
Fax: 702-535-5400
www.avicasino.com
Casino size: 65,000 sq. ft.
Avi Resort (455 rooms)
Slots 1,150
Table Games 27
Bingo 200 seats
VP & GM: Ralph Rei

Moapa Band of Paiute
MOAPA TRIBAL CASINO
I-15, Exit 75 Valley of Fire
Moapa, NV 89025-0340
Phone: 702-864-2601
Fax: 702-864-2603
Casino size: 2,500 sq. ft.
Slots 96
GM: Pete Desantis

NEW MEXICO
Class II & III

Jicarilla Apache Nation
APACHE NUGGET CASINO
US Highway 550 & US Highway 537
Cuba, NM 87013
Mailing: PO Box 219
Cuba, NM 87013
Phone: 505-289-2486
Fax: 505-759-1177
ww.apachenugget.com
Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.
Slots 180
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GM: Martha Loretto

Jicarilla Apache Nation
BEST WESTERN JICARILLA INN & WILDHORSE CASINO
13603 US Hwy. 64
Dulce, NM 87529
Phone: 505-759-3663
Fax: 505-759-3170
Casino size: 4,436 sq. ft.
Hotel rooms (42)
Slots 108
Table Games 3
President: Levi Pesata
GM: Martha Loretto

Pueblo of Pojoaque
BUFFALO THUNDER RESORT AND CASINO
30 Buffalo Thunder Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87506
Phone: 505-455-5555
Fax: 505-455-0200
www.buffalothunderresort.com
Casino size: 61,000 sq. ft.
Hilton Santa Fe Golf Resort & Spa at Buffalo Thunder (395 rooms)
Homewood Suites by Hilton (79 suites)
Slots 1,200
Table Games 18
Tribal Governor: George Rivera
GM: Scott Eldredge

Tesuque Pueblo Tribe
CAMEL ROCK CASINO
17486A Hwy. 84/285
Sante Fe, NM 87504
Phone: 505-984-8414
Toll Free: 800-462-2635
Fax: 505-989-9234
www.camelrockcasino.com
Casino size: 60,000 sq. ft.
Slots 562
Table Games 6  
GM: Pat Frenier

Mescalero Apache Tribe
CASINO APACHE TRAVEL CENTER
225845 US Highway 70
Mescalero, NM  88340
Mailing:  PO Box 227
Mescalero, NM  88340
Phone:  575-464-4494
Toll Free:  888-324-0348
Fax:  505-464-9191
www.innofthemountaingods.com
Casino size:  34,700 sq. ft.
Slots 380
Table Games 10
President: Mark Chino

Pueblo of Laguna
CASINO EXPRESS
14500 Central Ave.
Interstate 40 Exit 140
Albuquerque, NM 87120
Phone 505-352-7835
Gaming Machines 125
GM: Dennis Leong

Pueblo of Pojoaque
CITIES OF GOLD CASINO
10-B Cities of Gold Rd.
Sante Fe, NM 87506-0938
Phone: 505-455-3313
Toll Free: 800-455-3313
Fax: 505-455-7188
www.citiesofgold.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
Cities of Gold Hotel (208 rooms)
Slots 575
Table Games 20
Bingo 300 seats
GM: Mike Allegeir

Pueblo of Laguna
DANCING EAGLE CASINO
I-40, Exit 108
166 Casa Blanca Rd.
Albuquerque, NM 87121
Mailing: PO Box 550
Casa Blanca, NM 87007-0520
Phone: 505-552-7777
Toll Free: 877-440-9969
Fax: 505-552-7326
www.dancingeaglecasino.com
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.
Slots 600
GM: Kim Tohemeson

Navajo Nation
FIRE ROCK NAVAJO CASINO
249 Route 118 East
Church Rock, NM 87311
Mailing: PO Box 1800
Church Rock, NM 87311
Phone: 505-905-7100
Toll Free: 866-941-2444
Fax: 505-905-7199
www.firerocknavajocasino.com
Casino size 64,000 sq. ft.
Slots 733
Table Games 8
Bingo 400 seats
CEO: Robert Winter

Navajo Nation
FLOWING WATER NAVAJO CASINO
2710 US Highway 64
Waterflow, NM 87421
Mailing:  PO Box 3077
Waterflow, NM 87421
Phone: 505-368-2300
Casino size: 11,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 125
GM: Tricia Nez

Pueblo of Isleta
HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO ALBUQUERQUE
11000 Broadway Southeast
Albuquerque, NM 87105
Mailing: PO Box 1290
Isleta, NM 87105
Phone: 505-724-3800
Toll Free: 877-747-5382
Fax: 505-244-8246
www.hardrockcasinoabq.com
Casino size: 100,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,732
Table Games 33
Bingo 2,500 seats
CEO: Ronnie Olson

Mescalero Apache Tribe
INN OF THE MOUNTAIN GODS RESORT & CASINO
287 Carrizo Canyon Rd.
Route 4
Mescalero, NM 88340-9759
Phone: 505-464-7777
Toll Free: 877-277-5677
Fax: 505-464-7072
www.innofthemountaingods.com
Inn of the Mountain Gods (273 rooms)
Casino size: 38,000 sq. ft.
Slots 840
Table Games 35
COO: Scott Eldredge

Navajo Nation
NORTHERN EDGE NAVAJO CASINO
Route N36 & State Highway 371
Upper Fruitland, NM  87401
Phone: 505-436-2281
www.northernedgenavajocasino.com
Casino size: 86,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 750
Table Games 16
GM: Peter Riverso

Pueblo of San Juan
OH KAY CASINO RESORT HOTEL
Highway 68
Ohkay Owingeh, NM 87566-1270
Mailing: PO Box 1270
Ohkay Owingeh, NM 87566-1270
Phone: 505-747-1668
Toll Free: 877-829-2865
Fax: 505-747-5692
www.ohkaycasinoresort.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
Best Western Hotel (101 rooms)
Slots 587
Table Games 5
GM: Rhett Long

Pueblo of Laguna
ROUTE 66 CASINO
14500 Central Ave. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87121
Phone: 505-352-7866
Toll Free: 866-352-7866
Fax: 505-352-7880
www.rt66casino.com
Casino Size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,700
Table Games 30
Bingo 600 seats
President & CEO: Jerry Smith

Pueblo of San Felipe
SAN FELIPE’S CASINO HOLLYWOOD
25 Hagon Rd.
San Felipe Pueblo, NM 87001-8021
Phone: 505-867-6700
Toll Free: 877-529-2946
Fax: 505-867-6625
www.sanfelipecasino.com
Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.
Slots 545
Table Games 8
GM: Mike Ortiz

Pueblo of Sandia
SANDIA RESORT & CASINO
30 Rainbow Rd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113-2156
Phone: 505-796-7500
Toll Free: 800-526-9366
Fax: 505-796-7606
www.sandiaresortandcasino.com
Casino size: 160,000 sq. ft. Sandia Resort (228 rooms)
Slots 2,100
Table Games 48
Bingo 450 seats
GM: Michael Moore

Pueblo of Santa Ana
SANTA ANA STAR CASINO
54 Jemez Canyon Dam Rd.
Santa Ana Pueblo, NM 87004
Phone: 505-867-0000
Fax: 505-771-5353
www.santaanastar.com
Casino size: 109,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,460
Table Games 37
GM: John Cirrincione

Santa Clara Pueblo
SANTA CLARAN HOTEL CASINO
460 N. Riverside Dr.
Espanola, NM 87532-3470
Mailing: PO Box 427
Espanola, NM 87532-0427
Phone: 505-747-0059
Toll Free: 866-BIG-ROCK
Fax: 505-747-4549
www.bigrockcasino.com
Casino size: 36,000 sq. ft.
Santa Claran Hotel (124 rooms)
Slots 750
Table Games 10
GM: Darrell Nott

Pueblo of Acoma
SKY CITY CASINO
I-140 Exit 102
Acoma, NM 87034-0310
Mailing: PO Box 310
Acoma, NM 87034-0310
Phone: 505-552-6017
Toll Free: 888-759-2489
Fax: 505-552-9826
www.skycity.com
Casino size: 64,000 sq. ft.
Sky City Hotel (133 rooms)
Slots 660
Table Games 10
Bingo 500 seats
GM: Rick Ingrassia

Taos Pueblo
TAOS MOUNTAIN CASINO
700 Veterans Hwy.
Taos, NM 87571-0777
Mailing: PO Box 706
Taos, NM 87571-0777
Phone: 575-737-0777
Toll Free: 888-WIN-TAOS
Fax: 505-751-0578
www.taosmountaincasino.com
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
Slots 200
Table Games 4
GM: Bob Brooker

NEW YORK
Class II & III

St. Regis Mohawk Nation
AKWESASNE MOHAWK CASINO
873 State Route 37
Hogansburg, NY 13655-0670
Phone: 518-358-2222
Toll Free: 888-622-1155
Fax: 518-358-4050
www.mohawkcasino.com
Casino Size: 52,500 sq. ft.
Slots 1,575
Table Games 31
GM: Patrick Bassney

St. Regis Mohawk Nation
MOHAWK BINGO PALACE & CASINO
202 State Route 37
Akwesasne, NY 13655
Mailing: PO Box 720
Akwesasne, NY 13655-0008
Phone: 518-358-2246
Toll Free: 866-452-5768
Fax: 518-358-2249
www.mohawkpalace.com
Casino size: 33,880 sq. ft.
Slots 477
Bingo 522 seats
GM: Michael Garrow

Seneca Nation
SENECA ALLEGANY CASINO & HOTEL
777 Seneca Allegany Blvd
Salamanca, NY 14779-1331
Phone: 716-945-3200
Toll Free: 877-553-9500
Fax: 716-945-7547
www.senecaalleganycasino.com
Casino size: 68,300 sq. ft.
Seneca Allegany Hotel (212 rooms)
Slots 2,085
Table Games 33
GM: Gus Tsivikis

Seneca Nation
SENECA BUFFALO CREEK CASINO
1 Fulton St.
Buffalo, NY 14201
Phone: 716-853-7576
Casino size: 15,300 sq. ft.
Slots 2,200
GM: Jared Hardy

Seneca Nation
SENECA GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT
11099 Erie St.
Irving, NY 14081-9566
Phone: 716-549-4389
Toll Free: 800-421-2464
Fax: 716-549-6356
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.
Slots 650
Bingo 1,000 seats
GM: Tina Abrams

Seneca Nation
SENECA GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT
768 Broad St.
Salamanca, NY 14779-1331
Mailing: PO Box 231
Salamanca, NY 14779-0231
Phone: 716-945-4080
Toll Free: 877-860-5130
Fax: 716-945-3354
Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.
Slots 301
Poker tables 12
Bingo 450 seats
GM: Tina Abram

Seneca Nation
SENECA NIAGARA CASINO & HOTEL
310 Fourth St.
Niagara Falls, NY 14303
Phone: 716-299-1100
Toll Free: 877-873-6322
Fax: 716-299-1099
www.senecaniagaracasino.com
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GM: Chuck Kilroy

Oneida Indian Nation
TURNING STONE RESORT & CASINO
5218 Patrick Rd.
Verona, NY 13478-3012
Phone: 315-361-7711
Toll Free: 800-771-7711
Fax: 315-361-7901
www.turningstone.com
Casino size: 125,000 sq. ft.
Turning Stone Resort (702 rooms)
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Bingo 1,400 seats
COO: Pete Carmen

NORTH CAROLINA
Class II & III

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO & HOTEL
777 Casino Dr.
Cherokee, NC 28719-8735
Phone: 828-497-
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Toll Free: 800-427-7247
Fax: 828-497-5076
www.harrahs.com
Cherokee Casino Hotel
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Poker Tables 10
GM: Brooks Robinson

NORTH DAKOTA
Class II & III

Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation
4 BEARS CASINO & LODGE
202 Frontage Rd.
New Town, ND 58763-9402
Phone: 701-627-4018
Toll Free: 800-294-5454
Fax: 701-627-4012
www.4bearscasino.com
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GM: Patrick Packineau

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe
DAKOTA MAGIC CASINO & HOTEL
16849 102nd. St. SE
Hankinson, ND 58041-9780
Phone: 701-634-3000
Toll Free: 800-325-6825
Fax: 701-634-3016
www.dakotanationgaming.com
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Dakota Magic Hotel (127 rooms) Slots 1003
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
PRAIRIE KNIGHTS CASINO & RESORT
7932 Hwy. 24
Fort Yates, ND 58538-9736
Phone: 701-854-7777
Toll Free: 800-425-8277
Fax: 701-854-2303
www.prairieknights.com
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Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
SKY DANCER HOTEL & CASINO
Hwy. 5 West & County Rd
Belcourt, ND 58316
Phone: 701-244-2400
Toll Free: 866-244-9467
Fax: 701-244-2412
www.skydancercasino.com
Casino size: 37,000 sq. ft.
Sky Dancer Hotel (96 rooms)
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Bingo 500 seats
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Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe
SPIRIT LAKE CASINO & RESORT
7889 Hwy. 57 South
St. Michael, ND 58370-9000
Phone: 701-766-4747
Toll Free: 800-946-8238
Fax: 701-766-1507
www.spiritlakecasino.com
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Spirit Lake Resort (124 rooms) Slots 718
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Bingo 500 seats
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OKLAHOMA
Class II & III

Otoe Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma
7 CLANS PARADISE CASINO
7500 Hwy. 177
Red Rock, OK 74651
Phone: 580-723-4005
Toll Free: 866-723-4005
Fax: 580-723-2853
www.okparadisecasino.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 6
GM: Tom Butler

Chickasaw Nation
ADA GAMING CENTER
1500 N. Country Club Rd.
Ada, OK 74820-1862
Phone: 580-436-3740
Fax: 580-436-4897
www.chicksaw.net
Casino size: 7,361 sq. ft.
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GM: Mark Prentice

Chickasaw Nation
BLACK GOLD CASINO
288 Mulberry Lane
Wilson, OK 73463
Mailing:  PO Box 354
Wilson, OK 73463-0354
Phone:  580-668-4415
Fax:  580-668-9271
www.chickasaw.net
Casino size: 3,744 sq. ft.
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GM: Bobby Burton

Eastern Shawnee Tribe
BORDERTOWN BINGO & CASINO
129 W. Oneida St.
Wyandotte, OK 74370
Phone: 918-666-1108
Toll Free: 800-957-2435
Fax: 918-666-2135
www.bordertownbingo.com
Casino size: 73,000 sq. ft.
Slots 977
Table Games 24
Bingo 650 seats
GM: John Erwin

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
BORDERTOWN OUTPOST CASINO
69701 E. 100 Road
Wyandotte, OK 74370
Phone: 918-666 6770
www.bordertownbingo.com
Casino size: 3,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 267
GM: Jerry West

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
BUFFALO RUN CASINO
1000 Buffalo Run Blvd.
Miami, OK 74354
Mailing: PO Box 231
Miami, OK 74355-0231
Phone: 918-542-7140
Fax: 918-542-7160
www.buffalorun.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Buffalo Run Hotel (100 rooms) Slots 903
Table Games 15
GM: Steve Bashore

Muscogee Creek Nation
CHECOTAH INDIAN COMMUNITY BINGO
830 N. Broadway
Checotah, OK 74426-1103
Phone: 918-473-5200
Fax: 918-473-5899
Casino size: 9,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Jason Larney

Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO—FORT GIBSON
103 N. Georgetown Rd.
Fort Gibson, OK 74434
Phone: 918-207-3593
www.cherokeecasino.com
Casino size: 7,430 sq. ft.
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Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO— RAMONA
31501 Route 75
Ramona, OK 74061
Toll Free 918-535-3800
www.cherokeestarrewards.com
Casino Size: 4,500 sq. ft.
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Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO— ROLAND
205 Cherokee Blvd
Roland, OK 74954-1000
Phone: 918-427-7491
Toll Free: 800-256-2338
Fax: 918-427-6805
www.cherokeecasino.com
Casino Size: 34,375 sq. ft.
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GM: Tonya Roop

Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO—SALISAW
1621 W. Ruth St.
Salisaw, OK 74955
Mailing: PO Box 487
Salisaw, OK 74955
Phone: 918-776-1600
Toll Free: 800-256-2338
Fax: 918-776-9161
www.cherokeecasino.com
Casino size: 27,500 sq. ft.
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Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO—TAHLEQUAH
16489 Hwy. 62
Tahlequah, OK 74464
Mailing: PO Box 179
Tahlequah, OK 74465
Phone: 918-207-3600
Fax: 918-453-1024
www.cherokeecasino.com
Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.
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Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO—WEST SILOAM SPRINGS
2416 Hwy. 412
West Siloam Springs, OK 74338
Mailing: 584 Stateline Rd.
Colcort, OK 74338
Phone: 918-422-5100
Toll Free: 800-754-4111
Fax: 918-422-6229
www.cherokeecasino.com
Casino size: 136,252 sq. ft.
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GM: Mike Tamburelli

Cherokee Nation
CHEROKEE CASINO—WILL ROGERS DOWNS
20900 S. 4200 Rd.
Claremore, OK 74017-4295
Phone: 918-283-8800
Fax: 918-341-6154
www.cherokeecasino.com
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Chickasaw Nation
CHISHOLM TRAIL CASINO
7807 North Highway 81
Duncan, OK 73533
Mailing: PO Box 329
Marlow, OK 73055
Phone: 580-255-1668
Fax: 580-470-8552
www.chisholmtrailcasino.com
Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Richard Dailey

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO—BROKEN BOW
1790 S. Park Dr.
US Highway 259
Broken Bow, OK 74728
Phone: 580-584-5450
Fax: 580-920-0024
www.choctawcasinos.com
Casino size: 27,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (102 Rooms)
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO RESORT—DURANT
4215 S. Hwy. 69/75
Durant, OK 74701-1987
Mailing: PO Box 1909
Durant, OK 74702-1909
Phone: 580-920-0160
Toll Free: 800-788-2464
Fax: 580-920-0024
www.choctawgaming.com
Casino size: 120,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 68
Bingo 600 seats
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO—GRANT
US Highway 271 South
Grant, OK 74738-9802
Mailing; Route 1 PO Box 17
Grant, OK 74378-0017
Phone: 580-326-8398
Fax: 580-326-3245
www.choctawcasino
Casino size: 68,235 sq. ft.
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GM: Craig Northcutt

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO—IDABEL
1425 SE Washington
Idabel, OK 74745-3447
Mailing: PO Box 1079
Idabel, OK 74745-1079
Phone: 580-286-5710
Toll Free: 800-634-2582
Fax: 580-286-7239
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO—McALESTER
1638 S. George Nigh Expressway
US Highway 69
McAlester, OK 74501-7411
Phone: 918-423-8161
Fax: 918-423-7938
www.choctawcasinos.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO— POCOLA
3400 Choctaw Rd.
Pocola, OK 74902-0429
Mailing: PO Box 429
Pocola, OK 74702
Phone: 918-436-7761
Toll Free: 800-590-5825
Fax: 918-436-7606
www.choctawcasinos.com
Casino size: 87,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Christy Chaser

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
CHOCTAW CASINO—STRINGTOWN
895 N. Hwy. 69
Stringtown, OK 74569
Phone: 580-346-7862
Fax: 580-346-7875
www.choctawcasinos.com
Casino size: 14,000 sq. ft.
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Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
CIMARRON CASINO
821 W. Freeman Ave.
Perkins, OK 74059
Phone: 405-547-5352
Fax: 405-547-1023
Casino size: 9,000 sq. ft.
Slots 380
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GM: Peter Robb

Comanche Nation
COMANCHE NATION CASINO
402 SE Interstate Dr.
Lawton, OK 73501
Mailing: PO Box 347
Lawton, OK 73502-0347
Phone: 580-354-2000
Toll Free: 866-354-2500
Fax: 580-354-2423
www.comanchenationcasino.com
Casino size: 36,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 200 seats
GM: Darryl Chrismon

Comanche Nation
COMANCHE RED RIVER CASINO
Hwy 36 & Hwy 70
Devol, OK 73531
Mailing: Route 1 42K
Devol, OK 73531
Phone: 580-299-3378
Toll Free: 866-299-3261
Fax: 580-299-3442
www.crrcasino.com
Casino size: 52,500 sq. ft.
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GM: Phillip Glass

Comanche Nation
COMANCHE SPUR SMOKE SHOP & CASINO
9047 US Highway 62
Elgin, OK 73538-9748
Mailing: PO Box 1975
Lawton, OK 73502-1975
Phone: 580-492-5502
Fax: 580-492-4020
www.comanchespur.com
Casino size: 2,400 sq. ft.
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Comanche Nation
COMANCHE STAR CASINO & SMOKE SHOP
PO Box 82A, Route 3
Walters, OK 73572
Phone: 580-875-3208
Fax: 580-875-3504
www.comanchenation.com
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Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO—BRISTOW
121 W. Lincoln
Bristow, OK 74010-3428
Phone: 918-367-9168
Fax: 918-367-9373
www.creeknationbristow.com
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GM: David Warrior

Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO— EUFAULA
806 Forest Ave.
Eufaula, OK 74432
Phone: 918-689-9191
Fax: 918-689-9551
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Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO— HOLDENVILLE
211 East Willow Street
Holdenville, Oklahoma 74848
Phone: 405-379-3321
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Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO—MUSCOGEE
3420 W. Peak Blvd
Muskogee, OK 74403
Phone: 918-683-1825
Fax: 918-687-7318
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GM: Farrell Kaaihue

Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO—OKEMAH
1100 S. Woody Guthrie Blvd.
Okemah, OK 74859
Mailing: PO Box 630
Okemah, OK 74859
Phone: 918-623-0051
Fax: 918-623-0330
www.creeknationcasino.com
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Muscogee Creek Nation
CREEK NATION CASINO—OKMULGEE
1901 N. Wood Dr.
Okmulgee, OK 74447
Mailing: PO Box 790
Okmulgee, OK 74447-0790
Phone: 918-756-8400
Fax: 918-756-7672
www.cncokmulgee.com
Casino size: 11,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Margaret Rutledge

Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma
DOWNSTREAM CASINO RESORT
Route 44 and US Route 166
Quapaw, OK 74363
Mailing: 69300 E. Nee Rd.
Quapaw, OK 74363
Phone: 918-919-6000
Toll Free: 888-396-7876
www.downstreamcasino.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Steven Drewes

Muscogee Creek Nation
DUCK CREEK CASINO
10085 Ferguson Rd.
Beggs, OK 74421
Mailing: PO Box 809
Beggs, OK 74421
Phone: 918-267-3468
Fax: 918-267-3465
Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
FEATHER WARRIOR CASINO—CANTON
301 NE Lake Rd.
Canton, OK 73724
Mailing: PO Box 638
Canton, OK 73724
Phone: 580-886-2490
www.featherwarrior.com
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
FEATHER WARRIOR CASINO—WATONGA
1407 S. Clarence Nash Blvd.
Watonga, OK 73772
Phone: 580-623-7333
www.featherwarrior.com
Casino size: 2,200 sq. ft.
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GM: Gloria Smith

Citizen Potawatomi Nation
FIRELAKE CASINO
41207 Hardesty Rd.
Shawnee, OK 74801-8669
Phone: 405-878-4862
Fax: 405-273-0686
www.winatfirelake.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 500 seats
GM: Linda Canad

Citizen Potawatomi Nation
FIRELAKE GRAND CASINO
777 Grand Casino Blvd.
Shawnee, OK 74801
Phone: 405-964-7263
Fax: 405-964-7261
www.firelakegrand.com
Casino size: 125,000 sq. ft.
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Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma
FIRST COUNCIL CASINO
12875 North Highway 77
Newkirk, Oklahoma  74647
Toll Free:  877-725-2670
www.myfirstwin.com
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GM: Bruce Burnett

Fort Sill Apache Tribe
FORT SILL APACHE CASINO
2315 E. Gore Blvd.
Lawton, OK 73502
Mailing: PO Box 809
Lawton, OK 73502-0809
Phone: 580-248-5905
Fax: 580-248-2344
www.fortsillapachecasino.com
Casino size: 23,500 sq. ft.
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GM: Ken Gooden

Chickasaw Nation
GOLD MOUNTAIN CASINO
1410 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, OK 73401
Phone: 580-223-3301
Fax: 580-223-5464
www.chickasaw.net
Casino Size: 8,324 sq. ft.
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Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma
GOLD RIVER CASINO
Anadarko, OK 73005-0806
Mailing: PO Box 487
Anadarko, OK 73005
Phone: 405-247-6979
Toll Free: 800-280-1018
Fax: 405-247-6716
www.goldriverok.com
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GM: Kyle Reanes

Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
GOLDEN PONY CASINO
Interstate 40, Exit 227
Okemah, OK 74859-0188
Mailing: PO Box 70
Okemah, OK 74859-0188
Phone: 918-560-6199
Toll Free: 877-623-0072
Fax: 918-623-1810
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Terry Harjo

Chickasaw Nation
GOLDSBY GAMING CENTER
1038 W Sycamore Rd.
Norman, OK 73072-9801
Phone: 405-329-5447
Fax: 405-329-7892
www.chickasaw.net
Casino size: 15,462 sq. ft.  
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Bingo 300 seats
GM: Jan Folk

Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
GRAND LAKE CASINO
24701 S. 655th Rd.
Grove, OK 74344-4012
Phone: 918-786-8528
Toll Free: 800-426-4640
Fax: 918-786-9451
www.grandlakecasino.com
Casino size: 46,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 8
GM: Rick Smith

Cherokee Nation
HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO TULSA
777 W. Cherokee St.
Catoosa, OK 74015-3235
Phone: 918-384-7800
Toll Free: 800-760-6700
Fax: 918-266-1515
www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com
Casino size: 125,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 41
GM: Gary Widdell

Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
HIGH WINDS CASINO
61475 E. 100 Rd.
Miami, OK 74354
Phone: 918-541-9463
Fax: 918-541-9405
www.highwindscasino.net
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
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Kaw Nation of Oklahoma
KAW SOUTHWIND CASINO
5640 N. LaCann Dr.
Newkirk, OK 74647
Mailing: PO Box 171
Newkirk, OK 74647-0171
Phone: 580-362-2578
Toll Free: 866-529-2464
Fax: 580-362-3506
www.southwindcasino.com
Casino size: 55,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 6
Bingo 700 seats  
GM: Pamela Shaw

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians
KEETOOWAH CHEROKEE CASINO
2450 S. Muskogee Ave.
Tahlequah, OK 74464
Mailing: PO Box 117
Park Hill, OK 74451
Phone: 918-456-6131
Fax: 918-453-0632
www.keetoowahgaming.com
Casino size: 18,000 sq. ft.
Slots 500
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Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
KICKAPOO CASINO
25230 E. Hwy. 62
Harrah, OK 73045
Phone: 405-964-4444
Fax: 405-964-6708
www.kickapoo-casino.com
Casino size: 18,000 sq. ft.
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Table Games 8
GM: Che Down

Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
KIOWA CASINO
36 E. 1980 Rd.
Devol, OK 73531
Mailing: PO Box 100
Devol, OK 73531
Phone: 580-299-3333
Toll Free: 866-370-4077
www.kiowacasino.com
Casino size: 64,000 sq. ft.
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GM: James LaPorte

Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
LUCKY STAR CASINO—CLINTON
101 N. Indian Hospital Rd.
Clinton, OK 73601
Phone: 580-323-6599
Fax: 580-323-0861
www.luckystarcasino.org
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GM: Chris Derenzo

Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
LUCKY STAR CASINO—CONCHO
7777 N. Hwy. 81
Concho, OK 73022
Mailing: PO Box 150
Concho, OK 73022-0150
Phone: 405-262-7612
Fax: 405-262-4429
www.luckystarcasino.org
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Chris Derenzo

Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma
LUCKY TURTLE CASINO
64499 E. Hwy. 60
Wyandotte, OK 74370
Mailing: PO Box 527
Wyandotte, OK 74370
Phone: 918-678-3767
Casino size: 3,000 sq. ft.
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Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma
NATIVE LIGHTS CASINO
12375 N. Hwy. 77
Newkirk, OK 74647
Phone: 580-448-3100
www.nativelightscasino.com
Casino size: 22,500 sq. ft.
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Chickasaw Nation
NEWCASTLE GAMING CENTER
Route 62 & Interstate 44
Newcastle, OK 73065
Phone: 405-387-6013
Fax: 405-387-6053
www.chickasaw.net
Casino size: 64,708 sq. ft.
Slots 2,000
Table Games 13
GM: Ryan Sykes

Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—BARTLESVILLE
222 Allen Rd.
Bartlesville, OK 76003-4371
Phone: 918-699-7777
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—HOMINY
Osage Industrial Park, Cupid Building
Hominy, OK 74035
Mailing: HC 66 Box 885
Hominy, OK 74035
Phone: 918-885-2990
Toll Free: 877-246-8777
Fax: 918-885-2157
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Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
MIAMI TRIBE ENTERTAINMENT
202 S. 8 Tribes Trail
Miami, OK 74354
Mailing: PO Box 941
Miami, OK 74355-1326
Phone: 918-542-8670
Fax: 918-542-7260
www.miamination.com
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GM: Jim Barton

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
MYSTIC WINDS CASINO
12052 Hwy. 99
Seminole, OK 74868
Mailing: PO Box 1277
Seminole, OK 74868-1484
Phone: 405-382-3218
Fax: 405-303-2624
www.seminolenation.com
Slots 332
Tribal Chief: Kelly Haney
GM: James Factor

Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma
NATIVE LIGHTS CASINO
12375 N. Hwy. 77
Newkirk, OK 74647
Phone: 580-448-3100
www.nativelightscasino.com
Casino size: 16,000 sq. ft.
Slots 600
Table Games 6
Tribal President: Don Patterson
GM: Don James

Chickasaw Nation
NEWCASTLE GAMING CENTER
2457 N. Main St.
Route 62 & Interstate 44
Newcastle, OK 73065
Phone: 405-387-6013
Fax: 405-387-6053
www.chickasaw.net
Casino size: 44,622 sq. ft.
Slots 1,153
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Tribal Governor: Bill Anoatubby
GM:  Ryan Sykes

Osage Nation
OSAGE MILLION DOLLAR ELM CASINO—BARTLESVILLE
222 Allen Rd.
Bartlesville, OK 76003-4371
Phone: 918-699-7777
www.milliondollarelm.com
Casino size: 42,000 sq. ft.
Slots 600
Table Games 8
Tribal Chief: Jim Gray
GM: Ressa Files

Osage Nation
OSAGE MILLION DOLLAR ELM CASINO—HOMINY
Osage Industrial Park
Cupid Building
Hominy, OK 74035
Mailing: HC 66 Box 885
Hominy, OK 74035
Phone: 918-885-2990
Toll Free: 877-246-8777
Fax: 918-885-2157
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—PAWHUSKA
2017 E. 15th St.
Highway 99 and 15 Street
Pawhuska, OK 74056
Phone: 918-287-9009
Toll Free: 877-246-8777
Fax: 918-287-2071
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—PONCA CITY
73 N. City View Rd.
Ponca City, OK 74604
Phone: 580-765-2973
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—SAND SPRINGS
301 N. Blackjack Dr.
Sand Springs, OK 74063
Mailing: Central Service Office
Tulsa, OK 74127
Phone: 918-699-7777
Toll Free: 877-246-8777
Fax: 918-699-7700
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE CASINO—SKIATOOK
6455 W. Rogers Blvd.
Skiatook, OK 74070
Phone: 918-396-2626
www.milliondollarelm.com
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Osage Nation
OSAGE MILLION DOLLAR ELM CASINO—TULSA
951 W. 36th St. North
Tulsa, OK 74127
Phone: 918-669-7600
Toll Free: 877-246-8777
Fax: 918-699-7601
www.milliondollarelm.com
Casino size: 47,000 sq. ft.
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Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
PEORIA GAMING CENTER
8520 S. Hwy. 69A
Miami, OK 74354
Phone: 918-542-7140
Fax: 918-540-0308
Casino size: 4,200 sq. ft.
Slots 160
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Quapaw Tribe
QUAPAW CASINO
58100 E. 64th Rd.
Miami, OK 74354
Phone: 918-540-9100
Fax: 918-540-0784
www.quapawcasino.com
Casino size: 27,000 sq. ft.
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Muscogee Creek Nation
RIVER SPIRIT CASINO
1616 E. 81st St.
Tulsa, OK 74137-1215
Phone: 918-299-8518
Toll Free: 800-299-2738
Fax: 918-299-0345
www.creeknationcasino.com
Casino size: 300,000 sq. ft.
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Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
RIVERMIST CASINO
Intersection Highway 56 and 99
Konawa, OK 74849
Mailing:  PO Box 1498
Wewoka, OK 74884
Phone: 580-925-3994
www.seminolenation.com
Casino Size: 5,500 sq. ft.
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Chickasaw Nation
RIVERWIND CASINO
1544 West State Highway 9
Norman, OK  73071
Mailing:  PO Box 1548
Ada, OK  74821
Phone:  580-436-2603
www.chickasaw.net
Casino Size: 219,000 sq. ft.
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Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
SAC AND FOX CASINO—SHAWNEE
42008 Westech Rd.
Shawnee, OK 74804
Mailing: PO Box 1446
Shawnee, OK 74804
Phone: 405-275-4700
Fax: 405-275-4844
www.sandfcasino.com
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Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
SAC AND FOX CASINO—STROUD
Highway 99
Stroud, OK 74079
Mailing: PO Box 1446
Shawnee, OK 74804
Phone: 918-968-2540
www.sandfcasino.com
Casino size: 825 sq. ft.
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Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
SILVER BUFFALO CASINO
620 E. Colorado Dr.
Anadarko, OK 73005-5219
Phone: 405-247-5471
www.silverbuffalocasino.com
Casino size: 7,942 sq. ft.
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Miami Nation of Oklahoma
THE STABLES CASINO
530 H St. SE
Miami, OK 74354-8224
Phone: 918-542-7884
Toll Free: 877-774-7884
Fax: 918-542-9347
www.the-stables.com
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.
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Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
STONE WOLF CASINO & GRILL
54251 South 349th Road
Pawnee OK 74058
Mailing:  PO Box 470
Pawnee, OK 74058
Phone: 918-762-3621
www.pawneenation.org
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
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Chickasaw Nation
TEXOMA GAMING CENTER
1795 Highway 70 East
Kingston, Oklahoma 73439
Mailing: PO Box 141
Kingston, Oklahoma  73439
Phone: 580-564-6000
Fax: 580-564-4280
www.chickasaw.net
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Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
THUNDERBIRD CASINO
15700 E. State Hwy. 9
Norman, OK 73026-9028
Phone: 405-360-9270
Toll Free: 800-259-5825
Fax: 405-360-9288
www.astribe.com/businesses.html
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
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Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma
TONKAWA CASINO
10700 Allen Dr.
Tonkawa, OK 74653
Mailing: PO Box 220
Tonkawa, OK 74653-0070
Phone: 580-628-2624
Toll Free: 877-648-2624
Fax: 580-628-2204
www.tonkawacasino.com
Casino size: 14,437 sq. ft.
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Chickasaw Nation
TREASURE VALLEY CASINO
I-35, Exit 55 (Highway 7)
Davis, OK 73030
Phone: 580-369-2895
www.chickasaw.net
Casino size: 9,440 sq. ft.
The Inn at Treasure Valley (59 rooms)
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Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma
TWO RIVERS CASINO
20 White Eagle Drive
Ponca City, OK 74601-8310
Phone: 580-762-5444
Fax: 580-765-4769
Casino Size: 20,000 sq.ft.
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Chickasaw Nation
WINSTAR WORLD CASINO
777 Casino Ave Interstate 35
Thackerville, OK 73459
Phone: 580-276-4229
Toll Free: 800-622-6317
Fax: 580-276-3155
www.winstarworldcasino.com
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Bingo 800 seats
GM: Wayne McCormic

Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma
WYANDOTTE NATION CASINO
100 Jackpot Place
Wyandotte, OK 74370
Phone: 918-678-4946
Toll Free: 866-447-4946
Fax: 918-678-2732
www.wyandottecasinos.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Gary Johnson

OREGON
Class II & III

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
CHINOOK WINDS CASINO RESORT
1777 NW 44th St.
Lincoln City, OR 97367-5094
Phone: 541-996-5825
Toll Free: 888-244-6665
Fax: 541-996-5825
www.chinookwindscasino.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
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Bingo 400 seats
GM: Angela Calkins

Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
INDIAN HEAD CASINO
3236 US Highway 26
Warm Springs, OR  97761
Phone: 541-460-7777
www.indianheadgaming.com
Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 500
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Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
KAH-NEE-TA HIGH DESERT RESORT & CASINO
6823 Hwy. 8
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Mailing: PO Box 1240
Warm Springs, OR 97761-1240
Phone: 541-553-1112
Toll Free: 800-831-0100
Fax: 541-553-1071
www.kahneeta.com
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Klamath Tribe
KLA-MO-YA CASINO
34333 Hwy. 97 North
Chiloquin, OR 97624-8747
Phone: 541-783-7529
Toll Free: 888-552-6692
Fax: 541-783-7543
www.klamoyacasino.com
Casino size: 18,000 sq. ft.
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Coquille Indian Tribe
THE MILL CASINO HOTEL
3201 N. Tremont Ave.
North Bend, OR 97459-3062
Phone: 541-756-8800
Toll Free: 800-953-4800
Fax: 541-756-0431
www.themillcasino.com
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Burns Paiute Tribe
OLD CAMP CASINO
2205 W. Monroe St.
Burns, OR 97720-1950
Phone: 541-573-1500
Toll Free: 888-343-1568
Fax: 541-573-3963
www
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Casino size: 17,000 sq. ft.
Slots 110 Interim
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Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
SEVEN FEATHERS CASINO RESORT
146 Chief Miwaleta Ln.
Canyonville, OR 97417-9700
Phone: 541-839-1111
Toll Free: 800-548-8461
Fax: 541-839-4300
www.sevenfeathers.com
Casino size: 68,441 sq. ft.
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GM: Bruce Schoneboom

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
SPIRIT MOUNTAIN CASINO —WILLAMINA
27100 SW Salmon River Hwy.
Willamina, OR 97396
Mailing: PO Box 39
Grand Ronde, OR 97347-0039
Phone: 503-879-2350
Toll Free: 800-760-7977
Fax: 503-879-2486
www.spiritmountain.com
Casino size: 193,200 sq. ft.
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COO: Randy Dugger

Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
THREE RIVERS CASINO & HOTEL
5647 Hwy. 126
Florence, OR 97439
Phone: 541-997-7529
Toll Free: 877-3-RIVERS
Fax: 541-997-4802
www.threeriverscasino.com
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Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation
WILDHORSE RESORT & CASINO
72777 Hwy. 331
Pendleton, OR 97801-3379
Phone: 541-278-2274
Toll Free: 800-654-9453
Fax: 541-276-6169
www.wildhorseresort.com
Casino size: 113,000 sq. ft.
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SOUTH DAKOTA
Class II & III

Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
DAKOTA SIOUX CASINO
16415 Sioux Conifer Rd. Watertown, SD 57201-7321
Phone: 605-882-2051
Toll Free: 800-658-4717
Fax: 605-882-2185 www.dakotasioux.com
Casino size: 8,730 sq. ft.
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Yankton Sioux Tribe
FORT RANDALL CASINO
538 E. Hwy. 46 Pickstown, SD 57367
Mailing: PO Box 229
Pickstown, SD 57367-0229
Phone: 605-487-7871
Toll Free: 800-362-6333
Fax: 605-487-7354
www.fortrandall.com
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GM: Mike Red Lightning

Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
GOLDEN BUFFALO CASINO RESORT
321 Sitting Bull St.
Lower Brule, SD 57548
Mailing: PO Box 204
Lower Brule, SD 57548-0204
Phone: 605-473-5577
Fax: 605-473-0556
www.lbst.org
Casino size: 9,000 sq. ft.
Golden Buffalo Hotel (38 rooms)
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
GRAND RIVER CASINO & RESORT
27903 Hwy. 12
Mobridge, SD 57601
Mailing: PO Box 639
Mobridge, SD 57601-0639
Phone: 605-845-7104
Toll Free: 800-475-3321
Fax: 605-845-3880
www.grandrivercasino.com
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Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
LODE STAR CASINO & HOTEL
Highway 34 and Highway 47
Fort Thompson, SD 57339-0050
Mailing: PO Box 140
Fort Thompson, SD 57339-0140
Phone: 605-245-6000
Fax: 605-245-2240
www.lodestarcasino.com
Casino size: 27,500 sq. ft.
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Oglala Sioux Tribe
PRAIRIE WIND CASINO
Highway 18
Pine Ridge, SD 57770
Mailing: HC 49, Box 10
Pine Ridge, SD 57770-9710
Phone: 605-867-6300
Toll Free: 800-705-WIND
Fax: 605-867-2612
www.prairiewindcasino.com
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Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
ROYAL RIVER CASINO & HOTEL
607 S. Veterans St.
Flandreau, SD 57028-1416
Mailing: PO Box 326
Flandreau, SD 57028-0326
Phone: 605-997-3746
Toll Free: 800-833-8666
Fax: 605-997-9998
www.royalrivercasino.com
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TEXAS
Class II

Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas
KICKAPOO LUCKY EAGLE CASINO
7777 Lucky Eagle Drive
Eagle Pass, TX 78852
Mailing: PO Box 7100
Eagle Pass, TX 78853-7100
Phone: 830-758-1936
Toll Free: 888-255-8259
Fax: 830-757-1938
www.luckyeagletexas.com
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WASHINGTON
Class II & III

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
7 CEDARS CASINO
270756 Hwy. 101
Sequim, WA 98382-7677
Phone: 360-683-7777
Toll Free: 800-458-2597
Fax: 360-681-6711
www.7cedarscasino.com
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GM: Fred Napoli

Stillaguamish Tribe
ANGEL OF THE WINDS CASINO
3438 Stoluckquamish Ln.
Arlington, WA 98223
Phone: 360-474-9740
Fax: 360-474-9779
www.angelofthewinds.com
Casino size: 112,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Travis O’Neil

Puyallup Tribe of Indians
BJ’S BINGO
4411 Pacific Hwy. East
Fife, WA 98424
Phone: 253-922-0430
Fax: 253-922-1590
www.bjs-bingo.com
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Snoqualmie Tribe
CASINO SNOQUALMIE
37500 SE N. Bend Way
Snoqualmie, WA 98065
Mailing: PO Box 999
Snoqualmie, WA 98065
Phone: 425-888-1234
Toll Free: 888-348-3323
Fax: 425-888-3278
www.snocasino.com
Casino size: 187,000 sq. ft.
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Spokane Tribe
CHEWELAH CASINO
2555 Smith Rd.
Highway 395 South
Chewelah, WA 99109-9689
Mailing: PO Box 1106
Chewelah, WA 99109-1106
Phone: 509-935-6167
Toll Free: 800-322-2788
Fax: 509-935-4554
www.chewelahcasino.com
Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.
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Suquamish Tribe
CLEARWATER CASINO
15347 Suquamish Way
Suquamish, WA 98392-9649
Mailing: PO Box 1210
Suquamish, WA 98392-1210
Phone: 360-598-8700
Toll Free: 800-375-6073
Fax: 360-598-6895
www.clearwatercasino.com
Casino size: 33,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Karen Villanueva

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservations
COULEE DAM CASINO
515 Birch St.
Coulee Dam, WA 99116-1324
Phone: 509-633-0766
Toll Free: 800-556-7492
Fax: 509-633-0766
www.colvillecasinos.com
Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.
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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
ELWHA RIVER CASINO
631 Stratton Rd.
Port Angeles, WA 98363
Phone: 360-452-3005
www.elwharivercasino.com
Casino size: 7,000 sq. ft.
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Puyallup Tribe of Indians
EMERALD QUEEN CASINO I-5
2024 E. 29th St.
Tacoma, WA 98404
Phone: 253-594-7777
Toll Free 888-831-7655
Fax: 253-573-0514
www.emeraldqueen.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Frank Wrigh

Puyallup Tribe of Indians
EMERALD QUEEN HOTEL & CASINO
5700 Pacific Hwy. East
Fife, WA 98424
Phone: 253-922-2000
Fax: 253-922-3550
www.emeraldqueen.com
Emerald Queen Hotel (140 rooms)
Casino size: 33,000 sq. ft.  
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Squaxin Island Tribe
LITTLE CREEK CASINO
91 W. State Route 108
Shelton, WA 98584
Phone: 360-427-7711
Toll Free: 800-667-7711
Fax: 360-427-7868
www.little-creek.com
Casino size: 53,000 sq. ft.
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Skokomish Tribe
LUCKY DOG CASINO
19330 N. Hwy. 101
Shelton, WA 98584-9781
Phone: 360-877-5656
Fax: 360-877-9395
www.theluckydogcasino.com
Casino size: 50,000
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Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
LUCKY EAGLE CASINO
12888 188th St. Southwest
Rochester, WA 98579-9643
Phone: 360-273-2000
Toll Free: 800-720-1788
Fax: 360-273-2366
www.luckyeagle.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
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GM: John Setterstrom

Colville Confederated Tribes
MILL BAY CASINO
455 Wapato Lake Rd.
Manson, WA 98831-9577
Phone: 509-687-2102
Toll Free: 800-648-2946
Fax: 509-687-4501
www.colvillecasinos.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
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Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
MUCKLESHOOT CASINO
2402 Auburn Way South
Auburn, WA 98002-6370
Phone: 253-804-4444
Toll Free: 800-804-4944
Fax: 253-939-7702
www.muckleshootcasino.com
Casino size: 328,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Darryl Blackburn

Nisqually Tribe
NISQUALLY RED WIND CASINO
12819 Yelm Hwy. Southeast
Olympia, WA 98513-9111
Phone: 360-412-5000
Toll Free: 866-946-2444
Fax: 360-412-8275
www.redwindcasino.com
Casino size: 95,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Quinton Boshoff

Nooksack Indian Tribe
NOOKSACK NORTHWOOD CASINO
9750 Northwood Rd.
Lynden, WA 98264
Phone: 360-734-5101
Toll Free: 877-777-9847
Fax: 360-734-5106
www.northwood-casino.com
Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.
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Tribal Chair: Bob Kelly
GM: Leonard Habig

Nooksack Tribe
NOOKSACK RIVER CASINO
5048 Mount Baker Hwy.
Deming, WA 98244-0248
Mailing: PO Box 248
Deming, WA 98244-0248
Phone: 360-592-5472
Toll Free: 877-935-9300
Fax: 360-592-5542
www.nooksackcasino.com
Casino size: 20,160 sq. ft.
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Kalispel Tribe
NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO
100 N. Hayford Rd.
Airway Heights, WA 99001-1300
Mailing: PO Box 1300
Airway Heights, WA 99001-1300
Phone: 509-242-7000
Toll Free: 888-603-7051
Fax: 509-343-2163
www.northernquest.com
Casino size: 210,000 sq. ft.
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Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
OKANOGAN BINGO CASINO
41 Apple Way Rd.
Okanogan, WA 98840-9689
Phone: 509-422-4646
Toll Free: 800-559-4643
Fax: 509-422-7488
www.colvillecasinos.com
Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Randy Williams

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
THE POINT CASINO
7989 Salish Lane Northeast
Kingston, WA 98346
Phone: 360-297-0070
Toll Free: 866-547-6468
Fax: 360-297-8929
www.the-point-casino.com
Casino size: 18,400 sq. ft.
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Tulalip Tribes
QUIL CEDA CREEK NIGHTCLUB & CASINO
6410 33rd Ave. Northeast
Tulalip, WA 98271
Mailing: 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd.
Tulalip, WA 98271
Phone: 360-651-1111
Toll Free: 888-272 -1111
Fax: 360-651-4165
www.qcccasino.com
Casino size: 52,000 sq. ft.
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Quinault Tribe
QUINAULT BEACH RESORT & CASINO
78 State Route 115
Ocean Shores, WA 98569
Mailing: PO Box 2107
Ocean Shores, WA 98569-2107
Phone: 360-289-9466
Toll Free: 888-461-2214
Fax: 360-289-7779
www.quinaultbeachresort.com
Casino size: 16,000 sq. ft. Quinault Beach Resort (159 rooms)
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COO: Warren Shale   

Shoalwater Bay Tribe
SHOALWATER BAY CASINO
4112 Hwy.105
Tokeland, WA 98590
Mailing: PO Box 560
Tokeland, WA 98590
Phone: 360-267-2048
Toll Free: 888-834-7312
Fax: 360-267-0198
www.shoalwaterbaycasino.com
Casino size: 12,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (15 rooms)
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GM: Bryan Tate

Lummi Nation
SILVER REEF CASINO
4876 Haxton Way
Ferndale, WA 98248
Phone: 360-383-0777
Toll Free: 866-383-0777
Fax: 360-312-0504
www.silverreefcasino.com
Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (105 rooms)
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GM: Harlan G. Oppenheim

Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
SKAGIT VALLEY CASINO RESORT
5984 N. Darrk Lane
Bow, WA 98232
Phone: 360-724-7777
Toll Free: 877-275-2448
Fax: 360-724-0222
www.theskagit.com
Casino size: 64,000 sq. ft.
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(132 rooms)
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Snoqualmie Tribe
SNOQUALMIE CASINO
37500 Southeast North Bend Way
Snoqualmie, WA  98065
Phone: 425-888-1234
www.snocasino.com
Casino size: 187,602
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Table Games 50
CEO: Jon Jenkins

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
SWINOMISH NORTHERN LIGHTS CASINO  
12885 Casino Dr.
Anacortes, WA 98221-8363
Phone: 360-293-2691
Toll Free: 888-288-8883
Fax: 360-293-1273
www.swinomishcasino.com
Casino size: 73,000 sq. ft.
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GM: Mike Wootan

Tulalip Tribe
TULALIP BINGO
2911 Quil Ceda Blvd.
Tulalip, WA 98271-7413
Mailing: 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd.
Tulalip, WA 98271
Phone: 360-651-1111
Toll Free: 888-272-1111
Fax: 360-653-5068
www.tulalipcasino.com
Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.
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Tulalip Tribe
TULALIP RESORT CASINO
10200 Quil Ceda Boulevard
Tulalip, WA  98172-7413
Phone:  360-716-6000
www.tulalipresort.com
Casino size: 222,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 2,150
Table Games  46
Bingo Seats  870
COO: Ken Kettler

Spokane Tribe
TWO RIVERS CASINO & RESORT
6828 B Hwy. 25 South
Davenport, WA 99122-9300
Phone: 509-722-4000
Toll Free: 800-722-4031
Fax: 509-722-4015
www.two-rivers-casino.com
Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.
Hotel (101 rooms)
Slots 100
Table Games 3
GM: Richard Garry

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
YAKAMA NATION LEGENDS CASINO
580 Fort Rd.
Toppenish, WA 98948
Phone: 509-865-8800
Toll Free: 877-7COME11
Fax: 509-865-6336
www.yakamalegends.com
Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,375
Table Games 20
GM: Arlen Washines

WISCONSIN
Class II & III

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
BAD RIVER LODGE & CASINO
73370 US Hwy. 2
Odanah, WI 54861
Mailing: PO Box 8
Odanah, WI 54861-0008
Phone: 715-682-7121
Toll Free: 800-777-7449
Fax: 715-682-7149
www.badriver.com
Casino size: 74,000 sq. ft.
Bad River Lodge (50 rooms)
Slots 446
Table Games 6
GM: Jace Johnston

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
HIGHWAY 54 CASINO
W180 Sate Hwy. 54
Oneida, WI 54155
Phone: 920-869-2228
www.oneidabingoandcasino.net
Casino size: 2,800 sq. ft.
Slots 115
Asst. GM: Eric McLester

Ho-Chunk Nation
HO-CHUNK GAMING BLACK RIVER FALLS
W9010 Highway 54 East
Black River Falls, WI  54615
Phone:  715-284-9098
www.ho-chunkgaming.com
Casino size: 38,000
Gaming Machines 1,111
Table Games 10
Bingo Seats 480
GM: Greg Garvin

Ho-Chunk Nation
HO-CHUNK GAMING MADISON
4002 Evan Acres Rd.
Madison, WI 53718
Phone: 608-223-9576
Toll Free: 888-248-1777
Fax: 608-224-1110
www.ho-chunkgaming.com
Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.
Slots 1,100
GM: Daniel Brown

Ho-Chunk Nation
HO-CHUNK GAMING NEKOOSA
949 County Rd. G
Nekoosa, WI 54457
Phone: 715-886-4560
Toll Free: 800-782-4560
Fax: 715-886-4551
www.rbcwin.com
Casino size: 16,650 sq. ft.
Slots 650
Table Games 12
GM: Brian Decora

Ho-Chunk Nation
HO-CHUNK GAMING WISCONSIN DELLS
US3214 Hwy. 12
Baraboo, WI 53913
Phone: 608-356-6210
Toll Free: 800-746-2486
Fax: 608-355-1507
www.ho-chunk.com
Casino size: 94,480 sq. ft.
Ho-Chunk Casino
Hotel (315 rooms)
Slots 2,250
Table Games 45
Bingo 600 seats
GM: Casey Fitzpatrick

Ho-Chunk Nation
HO-CHUNK GAMING WITTENBERG
N7214 US Hwy. 45
Wittenberg, WI 54499
Phone: 715-253-4400
Fax: 715-253-3291
www.ho-chunkgaming.com
Casino size: 14,000 sq. ft.
Slots 522
GM: Jeanette Pettibone

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
LEGENDARY WATERS RESORT & CASINO
88705 Pine Tree Lane
Highway 13
Bayfield, WI 54814
Mailing: PO Box 1167
Bayfield, WI 54814-1167
Phone: 715-779-3712
Toll Free: 800-226-8478
Fax: 715-779-3715
www.wisconsingaming.com/islevista.html
Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.
Slots 209
Table Games 3
Bingo 235 seats
GM: Jeff Gordon

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
LAC COURTE OREILLES CASINO & LODGE
13767 W. County Rd. B
Hayward, WI 54843
Phone: 715-634-5643
Toll Free: 800-526-2274
Fax: 715-634-8110
www.lcocasino.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
Lac Courte Oreilles Lodge (75 rooms)
Slots 637
Table Games 16
Bingo Seats 600
GM: Michael Isham

Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
LAKE OF THE TORCHES RESORT CASINO
510 Old Abe Rd.
Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538
Phone: 715-588-7070
Toll Free: 800-258-6724
Fax: 715-588-9508
www.lakeofthetorches.com
Casino size: 56,000 sq. ft.
Lake of the Torches Hotel (101 rooms)
Slots 820
Table Games 11
CEO: Bill Guelcher  

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
MENOMINEE CASINO RESORT
N277 Hwy 47/55
Keshena, WI 54135
Mailing: PO Box 760
Keshena, WI 54135-0760
Phone: 715-799-3600
Toll Free: 800-343-7778
Fax: 715-799-1325
www.menomineecasinoresort.com
Casino size: 33,000 sq. ft.
Menominee Hotel (150 rooms)
Slots 862
Table Games 11
Bingo 450 seats
GM: James Reite

Sakaogon Chippewa Community
MOLE LAKE CASINO
3084 State Hwy. 55
Crandon, WI 54520
Mailing: PO Box 277
Crandon, WI 54520-0277
www.molelake.com
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.
Mole Lake Lodge (75 rooms)
Slots 515
Bingo 300 seats
Table Games 5
GM: Dean Moes

Stockbridge-Munsee Community
NORTH STAR MOHICAN CASINO
12180 County Rd. A West
Bowler, WI 54416
Phone: 715-793-4090
Toll Free: 800-775-CASINO
Fax: 715-787-3129
www.mohicannorthstar.com
Casino size: 70,100 sq. ft.
Slots 1,227
Table Games 16
Bingo 360 seats
GM: Brian Decora

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
ONEIDA CASINO
2020/2100 Airport Dr.
Green Bay, WI 54313
Mailing: PO Box 365
Oneida, WI 54155-0365
Phone: 920-494-4500
Toll Free: 800-238-4263
Fax: 920-496-2019
www.oneidabingoandcasino.net
Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft. Radisson Hotel  (408 rooms)
Slots 850
Table Games 26
Bingo 834 seats
GM: Louise Cornelius

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
ONEIDA MASON STREET CASINO
2522 W. Mason St.
Green Bay, WI 54313
Mailing: PO Box 365
Oneida, WI 54155
Phone: 920-494-4500
Toll Free: 800-238-4263
Fax: 920-496-3745
www.oneidabingoandcasino.net
Casino size: 37,880 sq. ft.
Slots 665
Table Games 8
GM: Louise Cornelius

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
ONEIDA IMAC GAMING CENTER
2100 Airport Drive
Green Bay, WI  54313
Phone:  920-494-4500
www.oneidacasino.net
Casino size:  38,507 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 561
Bingo Seats 858
GM: Louise Cornelius

Forest County Potawatomi Nation
POTAWATOMI BINGO CASINO
1721 W Canal St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Phone: 414-645-6888
Toll Free: 800-729-7244
Fax: 414-847-7727
www.paysbig.com
Casino size: 780,000 sq. ft.
Slots 3,117
Table Games 109
Bingo 1,354 seats
GM: Mike Goodrich

Forest County Potawatomi Community
POTAWATOMI CARTER CASINO & HOTEL
618 State Hwy. 32
Carter, WI 54566
Mailing: PO Box 430
Wabeno, WI 54566-0430
Phone: 715-473-2021
Toll Free: 800-487-9522
Fax: 715-473-6104
www.cartercasino.com
Casino size: 68,000 sq. ft.
Indian Springs Lodge (99 rooms)
Slots 506
Table Games 9
Bingo 250 seats
GM: Cheryl Waube

St. Croix Tribe of Chippewa
ST. CROIX CASINO DANBURY
30222 Hwy. 35 & Hwy. 77
Danbury, WI 54830
Mailing: PO Box 98
Danbury, WI 54830-0098
Phone: 715-656-3444
Toll Free: 800-238-4946
Fax: 715-656-3178
www.holeinthewallcasino.com
Casino size: 22,500 sq. ft.
Hole in The Wall Hotel (41 rooms) Slots 503
Table Games 12
GM: Martin Songetay

St. Croix Tribal Chippewa of Wisconsin
ST. CROIX
CASINO HERTEL EXPRESS
4384 State Rd. 70
Webster, WI 54893-9249
Phone: 715-349-5658
Fax: 715-349-5538
www.hertelexpress.com
Slots 148
GM: Debra Reynolds

St. Croix Tribal Chippewa of Wisconsin
ST. CROIX CASINO TURTLE LAKE
777 US Hwy. 8 & 63
Turtle Lake, WI 54889
Phone: 715-986-4777
Toll Free: 800-UGOUWIN
Fax: 715-986-2800
www.stcroixcasino.com
Casino size: 95,000 sq. ft.
St. Croix Hotel (179 rooms)
Slots 1,100
Table Games 23
GM: Leroy Buck  

WYOMING
Class II

Northern Arapaho Tribe
789 CASINO & BINGO HALL
10369 Highway 789
Riverton, WY  82501
Phone: 307-856-9942
www.windrivercasino.com
Casino size: 45,000 sq. ft.
Gaming Machines 270
GM: Jim Conrad

Northern Arapaho Tribe
LITTLE WIND CASINO
690 Blue Sky Hwy.
Ethete, WY 82520
Mailing: PO Box 1989
Riverton, WY 82501
Phone: 307-438-7000
Casino size: 1,920 sq. ft.
Slots 176
GM: Jim Conrad

Eastern Shoshone Tribe
SHOSHONE ROSE CASINO
5068 Hwy. 287
Lander, WY 82520
Mailing: PO Box 399
Lander, WY 82520
Phone: 307-335-7529
www.shoshonerosecasino.com
Casino size: 16,000 sq. ft.
Slots 295
GM: Brian Erkenvoort

Northern Arapaho Tribe
WIND RIVER CASINO
10269 Hwy. 789
Riverton, WY 82501
Mailing: PO Box 1989
Riverton, WY 82501
Phone: 307-856-3964
Fax: 307-857-2707
www.windrivercasino.com
Casino size: 46,000 sq. ft.
Slots 759
Table Games 9
Tribal Chair: Harvey Spoonhunter
CEO: Jim Conrad

Fighting the Good Fight

Posted on April 2, 2012 by -

In addition to the jobs that tribal gaming creates for thousands of Americans, the deeper economic impacts achieved by Indian gaming are well documented, but very often overlooked.

The impact of the goods and services purchased by those who live within tribal communities as well as their tribal governments, business patrons and tribal employees is further magnified by the history of tribal philanthropy and tribal non-gaming investments.

Despite the fact that these ongoing positive impacts are still largely ignored by most major American media outlets, no reputable professional even disputes the economic benefits created by Indian gaming these days—that is a good outcome created by the sweat of many of Indian Country’s modern-day warriors.

These modern-day warriors have included (for a very long time) leaders like Rick Hill, Ivan Makil, Mark Macarro, Ron Allen and Ernie Stevens fighting for all tribes as well as their own. One of the even less publicly recognized things that each of them still fight for to this very day is the provision of essential tribal government services to Native American communities.

Each of them, and many more Native peoples, recognize that most of these essential services will either be provided through Tribal self-determination, or they will simply not be provided to Native communities at all. Among the most essential services that these leaders fought and fight for are those that focus upon preserving and sharing our tribal histories and tribal cultures.

Preserving tribal culture is important to all Native American people. It is very important to those of us who actively fight to save the languages, songs, dances, ceremonies, oral histories and documented histories of our people. Ironically enough, cultural preservation is even more important to those within our tribal families who do not actively join the fight.

Language is probably the most critical piece of any culture. So much of our identity as peoples can only be accurately reflected within the beautiful ancient languages that tribes continue to speak today. The boost provided by Indian gaming revenue for language preservation and reclamation efforts in Native American communities across America is a reflection of tribal self-determination in action. The end result is the provision of essential government services.

Tribal government gaming is helping many attempts to rebound from some of the ugliest chapters of American history in providing these language based essential government services. The forced assimilation policies of our country’s past created inter-generational negative impacts upon tribal communities that can still be clearly observed at work among our people today.

The forced boarding school experiences that many of our elders lived through gives us an understanding of the inhumanity behind historic attempts to eradicate Indian languages. My ancestors were executed for speaking their language in public, which was actually against the law in Connecticut during the 17th century.  

Another set of common, and critically important, essential government services that are supported by Indian gaming revenues relate to the accurate reflection and full preservation of tribal histories. This source of revenue enables many tribes to preserve and reflect tribal history from their own perspective, producing yet another wave of tribal self-determination and tribal community progress impacts.

The incredible historical centers and museums that have been developed by tribes through the devotion of Indian gaming revenues are educational, cultural and historical treasures that should be viewed as a doing a service to all Americans and foreign visitors alike. Despite recent improvements in this area, the history class curriculum content utilized within most American school systems still contains little, if any, local or regional tribal community perspective.

This unfortunate fact makes tribal historical centers and museums the only place to get a sense of the full story that is so often buried within many commonly accepted portrayals of tribe-related American history.

In terms of providing a deep mutual community benefit, the approach of almost all of the tribes who have developed such institutions includes a strong focus upon sharing Native American culture and history with people of other cultures.

The sharing of inter-tribal culture is greatly supported by Indian gaming revenues, and also deeply emphasized by most tribes—the point of most pow-wows is to preserve the song and dance traditions that tribes share while enabling the general public to be entertained and to actually encourage them interact with Indian people on a person-to-person level.

These important cultural interactions help to temper, and sometimes even to reverse, the historically dehumanizing public perspectives about Native Americans that still plague us today. Increasing numbers of tribes are seizing the opportunity to be aligned, and to also be more mutually supportive, when it comes to serving critical tribal historical and cultural needs such as these.

It is heartwarming to see how these important cultural ends continue to be served as tribes gather for national inter-tribal meetings like the upcoming NIGA trade show and convention in San Diego. As we spread the word about Indian gaming and all of the American lives that have been changed for the better by Indian gaming, we can take comfort in knowing that several of the most important perpetual Native American focal points—culture, history and a tradition of sharing—are also being very well served by the collective focus of Indian Country.