“Tribal and state relations are at an all-time low, so low that we are in a deficit, in the red,” said Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Carlson adamantly denies that his legislation is \u201cretribution\u201d against the tribes for the civil disobedience of the last four months.<\/p>\n
Mark Fox, chairman of Three Affiliated Tribes, said his casino, the 4 Bears Casino and Lodge in New Town, along with the others in the state, provide over 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars in revenue for the reservations and nearby communities.<\/p>\n
“It’s our catalyst. It’s our vehicle for change,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s the pulling up of the boot straps that we always hear people say, why don’t those Indians pull themselves up by the boot straps? So we do. We conduct our gaming and we’re darn good at it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And it\u2019s not just the tribes that are against the bill, either. There are around 300 charitable gambling locations in bars and clubs throughout the state, which would also be impacted, according to Jonathan Jorgensen, president of the board of directors for the Charitable Gaming Association of North Dakota.<\/p>\n
“This is not an expansion of gaming, this is an explosion of gaming,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It hasn’t been a great stretch for the Native American tribes of North Dakota. And now relations between the Roughrider State and its tribes have hit rock bottom, thanks to a new push to amend the State Constitution to permit the creation of state-owned casinos outside of tribal lands. It\u2019s a proposal that, if realized, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":46807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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