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The new Osage Casino Pawhuska held its grand opening Friday in the city of Pawhuska on the Osage Tribe\u2019s reservation in Oklahoma, The<\/em> Pawhuska Journal-Capital<\/em><\/a> reports. The resort will replace an older gaming facility that opened in 2003.<\/p>\n

\"Osage
Casino General Manager Mason Shackelford cuts the ribbon to open the Osage Pawhuska Casino, center. Tribal gaming board chair Geoff Hager, directly to his right, claimed the casino was built in \u201csacred ground\u201d Friday. (Image: Pawhuska Journal-Capital)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new 87,808-square-foot casino-hotel boasts 47 hotel rooms, more than 3,000 square feet of event space, 259 slot machines, and a full-service restaurant.<\/p>\n

The hotel may benefit from reports of an uptick in tourism to Pawhuska brought by the 2023 Martin Scorsese flick, Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>, which is primarily filmed there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The small city, an hour\u2019s drive north of Tulsa, has been the seat of the Osage tribal government since its reservation was established in 1872.<\/p>\n

\u2018Divine Intervention\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Geoff Hager, chair of the Osage Gaming Enterprise Board, said his childhood home had once stood on the plot where the casino was built.<\/p>\n

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Hager recounted a story of how, while playing on the land as a child, he heard his mother\u2019s voice calling out to him to stop, which allowed him to avoid a falling tree branch that would have otherwise landed on him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When he thanked his mother for the warning, she claimed it wasn\u2019t her. Hager cited this as evidence of \u201cdivine intervention,\u201d and proof that the land where casino had been built was \u201csacred\u201d — although traditionally this has been a reason not<\/em> to build a casino somewhere.<\/p>\n

The project has been some 20 years in the making for the tribe, according to Osage Casinos CEO Kim Pearson. Construction began in 2021 and has been delayed by supply chain issues.<\/p>\n

Eyes on the Ozarks<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is the first of two Osage casinos expected to open this October. The other, 25 miles east in Bartlesville, will also replace a preexisting gaming facility with a larger resort.<\/p>\n

The Osage Nation is also seeking to build a casino<\/a> in the Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., to which it has ancestral ties. Osage lands once encompassed most of Missouri, although the tribe was forced to cede much of these to the United States in 1808. The tribe was relocated to Indian Territory in Oklahoma by an 1870 act of Congress.<\/p>\n

In the early 20th century, the discovery of oil on its lands made the tribe very rich. But in 1921, the federal government declared that the Osage people were incapable of managing their own wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The courts assigned white \u201cguardians\u201d to each adult member. This attracted con artists who defrauded and sometimes murdered their charges for their money, a subject tackled by the Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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