consolidates or enhances tribal lands<\/a>, and prove that the Native American community has historical ties to the region.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, the Osages are looking at land in Cuba (another oddly named city in Missouri). Cuba is about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis. <\/span><\/p>\nMissouri is also home to the cities of Florida, the birthplace of Mark Twain, as well as Maryland Heights, Mexico, and Nevada.<\/span><\/p>\nMillions at Stake<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\nRiverboat casinos are often much smaller facilities compared to land-based resorts. Should Governor Greitens approve of the tribe’s plans and the DOI take the land into trust, nothing would be standing in the Osage Nation’s way of building a resort. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
Class I and II gaming would be immediately authorized under federal law, but to incorporate Class III gaming (slots and table games), the tribe would need to reach a gaming compact with the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nShould all those hurdles be cleared, Missouri’s first Native American casino could stand to become the tribe’s breadwinner. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMissouri has a relatively low effective commercial gambling tax rate at 26.1 percent, and ranked #8 in consumer spending on casinos in 2015. Adjusted gross receipts are on pace to hit almost $2 billion this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Native American tribe in Oklahoma wants to bring gambling off riverboats in Missouri by building the state’s first land-based casino. In order to increase its odds of receiving approval, the Osage Nation has hired former Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley (R) to lobby on the group’s behalf in Jefferson City, the state capital.\u00a0 Revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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