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CONTENTS COVER STORY

The Obama Era 16

A scorecard of Indian gaming under President Barack Obama reveals that despite a few secondterm setbacks, the current president is arguably the most friendly yet to Indian Country.

BY MICHAEL J. ANDERSON

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2015 • 12th annual edition

COLUMNS TRIBAL EDUCATION

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Commitment to Excellence

BY KATE SPILDE

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MARKETING Why Exceptional Creative Matters RICH SULLIVAN

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NIGA America’s Success Story ERNEST STEVENS, JR.

DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 10 Sizing Up NIGC The changing face of the National Indian Gaming Commission raises questions about its continuing relevance as the agency’s role evolves.

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

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TRIBAL GOVERNMENT GAMING 2015 DIRECTORY

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AD INDEX

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BY DAVE PALERMO

22 The Power of Retail Retail and dining additions are giving tribal casinos new injections of revenue away from the games.

BY DAVE BONTEMPO

28 California Dreaming The future of internet gaming in the lucrative California tribal casino market is in question as bills become mired in Congress.

BY DAVE PALERMO

40 Marketing Indian Gaming Five marketing experts contribute their essays on the most effective ways to market tribal gaming.

BY BEN GORDON, MICHAEL A. MECZKA, MARK ELMORE, GARY BORDER AND JOHN MANGINI

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CAN WE JUST GET ALONG? Gaming tribes join forces with the AGA for a united front BY ROGER GROS ate last year, the American Gaming Association announced that the Seminole Tribe of Florida had joined the group, the first Native American organization to become a member.

John Eder, senior vice president of finance for Seminole Gaming, says the arrangement will be good for the tribe and the industry.

“As part of this, we will have a voice in determining what’s the best road or path that we can take for gaming—not just Seminole Gaming but gaming in general—that will allow us to do business and be the most beneficial,” he said.

According to Geoff Freeman, the president and CEO of the AGA, “Our goal is to elevate the AGA’s ability to advocate for the entire gaming industry—in Washington, in the media and in communities across America.”

The addition of Native American tribes that offer gaming makes sense. There are a raft of issues that impact the overall gaming industry—FinCEN regs, labor rules, compliance issues, iGaming legalization and responsible

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It doesn’t make sense to make distinctions between tribal and commercial gaming. gaming, just to name a few. By merging the two sides of the same industry into one voice, the gaming industry in the U.S. is strengthened. In this case, the sum of the parts is much greater than they would be individually.

Nonetheless, there were some segments of tribal gaming that were disturbed by the development. Some are worried that it will diminish the importance of the National Indian Gaming Association. Not likely. NIGA will always address tribal-specific issues that will not be part of the AGA’s purview. The commercial AGA members don’t really care about Carcieri, state compacts, the National Indian Gaming Commission or other strictly tribal issues. NIGA will still be the force that represents these issues before Congress.

Others just think that the constituencies of each part of the industry are too diverse.

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ested in investors, they say, while tribal casinos benefit members of the specific tribes. While that is true, the issues that challenge both commercial and tribal casinos could impact both constituencies negatively, so a unified voice benefits both investors and tribal members.

Under Freeman’s leadership, the AGA has recently begun to proactively address issues that are always controversial in the U.S. by presenting facts and not anecdotes. The AGA’s Get To Know Gaming campaign quantifies the impact of the industry on communities where it is located. For the first time, the AGA has included statistics on tribal gaming (where available) to present a far more complete picture of gaming’s impact.

This not only makes the case for commercial casinos, but gaming as a whole, shining a positive light on casinos of all sorts.

With a series of reports by Oxford Economics, the AGA has identified why gaming jobs are not low-level, minimum-wage jobs, but they are the start of a career and the gateway to the middle class. In addition, the reports have revealed that minorities hold almost half of all gaming jobs, a larger percentage than most major industries in the U.S. These positive reports have drawn attention from the mainstream media and have begun to influence decision-makers. To speed that process, the AGA has launched a “Gaming Votes” campaign that is designed to educate politicians on the facts of the gaming industry, and to show members of the industry the facts about the positions of candidates as they relate to gaming.

Tribal gaming is almost half of the gaming industry in the U.S. It doesn’t make sense to make distinctions between tribal and commercial gaming; to the communities, the customers and politicians, it’s often the same issues.

So not only can the AGA and NIGA coexist peacefully, there is a role where the two organizations can cooperate for the good of the industry and all its constituents. Does every gaming tribe need to join the AGA? Probably not, but the larger gaming tribes with revenues approaching $1 billion or more should certainly consider becoming a strong part of the AGA, just as they most likely are a strong part of NIGA. Together we’re much stronger than we are apart.

Roger Gros, Publisher rgros@ggbmagazine.com

Frank Legato, Editor flegato@ggbmagazine.com

Robert Rossiello, Art Director rross@casinoconnection.com

David Coheen, North American Sales & Marketing Director dcoheen@ggbmagazine.com

Floyd Sembler, Business Development Manager fsembler@ggbmagazine.com

Becky Kingman-Gros, Chief Operating Officer bkingros@ggbmagazine.com

COLUMNISTS Kate Spilde, Ernest Stevens, Jr., Rich Sullivan

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Michael J. Anderson, Dave Bontempo, Gary Border, Mark Elmore, Ben Gordon, John Mangini, Michael A. Meczka, Dave Palermo

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TRIBAL EDUCATION

COMMITMENT to EXCELLENCE Bridging the education gap through tribal gaming industry outreach BY KATE SPILDE

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n fall of 2005, the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation endowed the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming (SITG) at San Diego State University (SDSU). The SITG has pursued three mandates since then: 1) developing and offering the nation’s first four-year degree program in tribal casino operations management; 2) producing and supporting academic research on tribal gaming; and, 3) informing the public policy debate around tribal government gaming and its impacts on communities.

In the last decade, dozens of students have graduated from SDSU with a B.S. in hospitality and tourism management with an emphasis in tribal casino operations. Our students and alumni are working in a range of positions in tribal and commercial gaming properties. Graduates of our program can be found in positions around the country, working for tribal governments directly and extending their understanding to non-tribal communities, including Las Vegas.

With the support of our gaming industry partners, the institute is demonstrating a shared commitment to the long-term goal of developing a professional class of gaming experts who will enhance the tribal government gaming industry across the U.S. After a decade of development and growth on our campus in San Diego, however, the institute is extending its reach off campus and into Indian Country, both in person and online. At the invitation of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association (AIGA), the institute developed and offered our first Tribal Gaming Executive Training Program (ETP) at the Arizona Indian Gaming Association (AIGA) Expo 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The institute invited top gaming faculty to present two unique tracks during the AIGA Expo.

Track 1, Casino Operations and Integrated Resort Management, covered operations issues. Track 2, Tribal Human Resources: Developing a Local Workforce through Hiring and Training, addressed human resources in Indian Country.

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versally embraced, and the institute, at the invitation of AIGA, has agreed to create and deliver another ETP program for Expo 2015. Over time, we hope to be able to serve gaming professionals in other regions of the United States as well.

As a complement to our direct industry outreach through the ETP, last fall the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming began offering fully online classes in tribal gaming as part of a new Certificate in Tribal Casino Operations Management. The certificate program was developed in direct response to tribal gaming industry requests for access to higher education in casino operations, marketing and regulation.

The certificate program consists of 12 units across five courses. The five courses required for the Tribal Gaming Certificate include Tribal Casino Operations, Tribal Casino Marketing and Public Relations, Tribal Gaming Legal and Regulatory Issues, History and Culture of Tribal Gaming and Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Gambling Addiction. All five courses are now being offered fully online by SDSU and can be completed in nine months.

In addition to offering formal academic courses and the ETP, the Sycuan Institute has also invested significant time and effort in building an academic research arm that solicits research proposals and offers grants to researchers who can contribute to the creation of an intellectual community investigating tribal government gaming. During its first decade, the Sycuan Institute funded several major research projects treating such diverse issues as responsible gaming, employee diversity and orientation strategy, cultural revitalization through language recovery and traditional gambling among the California tribes, among others.

Several institute-funded research projects have been published in peer-reviewed journals, and at least two more are due to be published in 2015. For example, in 2013, the institute published a comprehensive study on the national impacts of tribal government gaming in the UNLV Gambling Research and Review Journal.

KATE SPILDE The study, titled “Economic Evidence on the Effects of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on Indians and NonIndians,” covers the substantial growth and myriad positive impacts of the first 20 years of tribal gaming under IGRA, and reveals the ways the federal regulatory framework laid out in the law resolved numerous legal dilemmas that had plagued tribal gaming expansion.

In December 2014, the institute published a study addressing the impacts of tribal government gaming in California over the past 20 years. This study, titled “Social and Economic Changes on American Indian Reservations in California: an Examination of 20 Years of Tribal Government Gaming,” was also published in the UNLV Gambling Research and Review Journal and finds that while there has been phenomenal growth and recovery on many American Indian reservations in California, there are still large discrepancies in comparison to the rest of the U.S. Both studies are available at http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/grrj.

As we begin our next decade, the Sycuan Institute is poised to strengthen our partnership with the tribal government gaming industry by supporting the development of best practices for both tribal governance and tribal casino operations. Our research agenda has extended into tribal casino operations with the funding of analysis of free play in tribal casinos, and we will continue to respond to the needs of Indian Country, both in person and online.

The institute remains committed to the vision of the Sycuan Band and SDSU, which is to create an improved business and social environment while supporting better gaming policy.

Kate Spilde, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at San Diego State University. She has held the Endowed Chair for the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming since 2008. For more information about the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, visit htm.sdsu.edu/sycuan.

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WHY EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVE MATTERS An effective advertisement is worth a thousand marketing words BY RICH SULLIVAN ack in my more rowdy days, when I was risking precious beer money at my favorite Mississippi casinos, I didn’t really give much thought as to why I went to a particular property. At first, it was just about the experience of going, but after I had stepped in enough Biloxi establishments and the initial mystique and allure wore off, I started gravitating to only a couple of properties.

Then it dawned on me. I wasn’t playing at these casinos because of the atmosphere, the perceived level of “payback” or because of an outstanding loyalty program—I was playing at these places because it felt like I should be there. All the external marketing spoke to me. Whether it was the billboards along I-10 or the mailers I received, I was drawn to the brands with the strongest creative aesthetics.

Fast forward several years, and not much has changed in my thinking, except maybe I’ve swapped out beer for gin. But while running an ad agency that specializes in casino clients, I’ve had an up-close view of the rapid expansion of gaming throughout the U.S. in the past 10 years.

It’s been fascinating to see regional markets emerge, buoyed by tribal gaming entities and revenue-seeking states willing to allow commercial, land-based casinos, and then quickly approach a saturation point. From Pennsylvania to northeast Oklahoma to my home state of Alabama, the drive-for-a-night casino can no longer rely on convenience as a marketing solution.

In my opinion (and of course I’m biased), the casinos standing out in crowded regional markets are the ones doing creative work that gets talked about. Whether it’s a memorable TV spot that doesn’t get skipped on the DVR or a special direct mail piece that won’t end up in the trash, good creative gets noticed.

This is inherently subjective, but when I say “good creative” I’m talking about the sum of all parts. From the copy platform and tone, to the color palette and mood, to the production value and execution, it all has to

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add up and make sense.

When we work on a client creative brief at my agency, the most important thing we need to understand as a team is what we refer to as “the one thing.” This is the pivotal idea that forms the bedrock of the work, and all tactics flow cohesively from this idea.

Without strategic glue underpinning the creative, it’s just words and pretty pictures.

And while a good majority of casinos understand this, it’s surprising that only a few put it into consistent practice. Commercial casino operators often benefit from an established brand presence and familiar iconography, thus influencing tribal gaming operators in the same market to be nimble and inventive. By adapting quicker to market conditions and adjusting creative output as need be, tribal casinos have proven formidable competitors.

The casinos standing out in crowded regional markets are the ones doing creative work that gets talked about.

For example, I’d suggest checking out some of the advertising produced by Northern Quest Resort & Casino outside of Spokane, Washington. I’ve admired its work for some time, as it seems to effortlessly balance humor, playfulness and authenticity in both its commercial advertising and internal back-of-house marketing.

I’m apparently not the only one that has noticed the tremendous efforts from Northern Quest, as the property recently received the Barona/VCAT Award for Excellence in Indian Gaming Marketing. I’m not privy to Northern Quest’s financials, but I really don’t have to see the numbers to know that great creative has a positive effect on the bottom line. I’ve been able to witness this firsthand, especially with our tribal casino clients.

It’s funny that, for an industry that attracts customers who love risk, casino advertising has long been affiliated with traditional, risk-averse strategies. I think that’s more a symptom affecting mostly larger casino brands, as our tribal clients deal with fewer decision-making rungs and push innovative ideas to market with alacrity.

This happened last year with our client, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, owned and operated by Cherokee Nation Entertainment.

Located in the dense tribal gaming market of northeast Oklahoma, Hard Rock Tulsa needed a way to stand out while supporting its Halloween promotion, the largest and most important promo of the year.

Early on in the creative process (probably back in February or March 2014), we identified an opportunity to integrate social mobile games that would thread together all the thematic elements of the promo. When we went to pitch our initial collateral looks, we included our idea about the mobile games, sharing a general overview of proposed game mechanics along with a few storyboard sketches.

Without hesitation, our client told us to move forward with developing the games.

We delivered the games for launch at the end of September, concluding a streamlined, collaborative process that essentially hinged on the client trusting us. The result was impactful for the Hard Rock Tulsa, as it became first in its market to extend the brand online in a fun, interactive way.

Exceptional creative matters today more than ever, and the casinos that embrace innovative ideas while holding true to fundamental principles of advertising will be wellpositioned to hold or increase their market share in a packed field.

Rich Sullivan is the CEO and executive creative director at Red Square Gaming.

Sullivan has worked with brands such as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Jack Daniel’s, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Cirque du Soleil, Google and more. For more information, visit redsquaregaming.com.

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Federal agency dials down enforcement while increasing training, consultations >> BY DAVE PALERMO<<

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CONGRESSIONAL CRITICISM OF THE NATIONAL Indian Gaming Commission, which is responsible for federal oversight of American Indian casinos, erupted again last July when the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs discussed a pending government audit of the agency.

“One of my primary concerns continues to be the performance and legal limitations of the National Indian Gaming Commission as the chief federal regulator for Indian gaming,” NIGC critic Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) told the committee.

McCain, who has long pressed for greater federal authority over the $28 billion tribal gaming industry, joined with committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) and antigambling advocate Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) in seeking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit.

A preliminary GAO report says NIGC enforcement “decreased significantly” since 2009 due to an emphasis on technical assistance and training rather than disciplinary action to achieve compliance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The final audit is due this spring.

Acting NIGC Chairman Jonodev Chaudhuri, a Muskogee Creek awaiting Senate confirmation, assured the committee the so-called ACE (assistance, compliance and enforcement) initiative has not resulted in lax enforcement of gambling laws.

“Nothing about our enforcement and oversight responsibilities has in any way diminished by the recognition of the benefits of working with tribal regulators on the front end,” Chaudhuri said.

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whole thing, so we look forward to that additional GAO follow-up report,” Barrasso said.

Balancing the need for federal oversight of Indian casinos with the U.S. Supreme Court 1987 ruling giving tribes sovereignty over gambling on Indian lands has been a source of debate since IGRA was enacted the following year.

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POSITIVE FEEDBACK ribal governments and regulators have embraced NIGC’s tribal-friendly policies under President Barack Obama, contending they adhere to IGRA mandates that 247 gambling tribes have primacy for the regulation of the nation’s approximately 450 casinos in 28 states.

Many tribes spend $8 million or more a year on security and surveillance and a small army of accountants, technicians and specialists, often to regulate a single casino. The National Indian Gaming Association says tribes annually spend $319 million to regulate gambling.

The industry has been virtually free of scandal. But there have been a handful of tribal disputes resulting in at times volatile takeovers of Indian casinos.

There was much tribal criticism of NIGC under Chairman Phil Hogen, an Oglala Lakota and Bush administration appointee who was accused of being heavy-handed and failing to adequately consult with tribes.

“The current NIGC policy is more in line with the legislative intent of IGRA,” Oklahoma Cherokee Jamie Hummingbird, chairman of the National Tribal Gaming Commissioners and Regulators (NTGCR), told Pechanga.net.

“The agency was not intended or designed in IGRA to be

ing, largely as it relates to things like the an active regulator, but to provide overinternet and enforcement of its regulasight; to be an educator, a trainer. The tions, I think NIGC runs a real risk of agency was intended to work with the becoming irrelevant,” says Rosebud tribes, not ride roughshod over the Sioux Joe Valandra, a consultant and fortribes.” mer NIGC chief of staff.

NIGC in 2013 held 194 workshops “The NIGC is not fulfilling the providing 754 hours of training and intent of IGRA,” says a former tribal technical assistance to 2,751 participants, regulator who requested anonymity. “It’s most of whom praised the programs, not about training. It’s about oversight. according to GAO’s preliminary report.

It’s about enforcement.”

Most agree with Hummingbird’s Nothing about our “Unless and until tribes sense that if assessment of NIGC policy, including 10 enforcement and overthey do something wrong and they don’t current and former tribal regulators and sight responsibilities has fix it there’s going to be an adverse conothers surveyed by Tribal Government sequence—whether it’s a fine, closure or Gaming magazine for this article. in any way diminished whatever—the regulatory body is going “What (the Obama NIGC) did was by the recognition of to lose the posture it’s got to have,” transfer authority to where it belongs, Hogen says. which is with the tribal commissions,” the benefits of working “The NIGC made a policy decision says former NIGC commissioner Teri with tribal regulators that they’re going to regulate with a light Poust, a member of the Poarch Band of hand, or a lighter hand,” Hogen says.

Creek Indians of Alabama. on the front end.

“The jury is still out on that. I hope that “The NIGC was not intended and it —Acting NIGC Chairman Indian Country is no worse for that.” does not have the statutory authority, the Jonodev Chaudhuri Chaudhuri defends the ACE initiastructure nor the resources under the law tive and denies NIGC is abdicating its to be this be-all everything regulatory enforcement role, despite GAO findings agency,” says John Tahsuda, a Kiowathat agency notices of violations (NOVs) Comanche and principal of Navigators have nosedived since 2009.

Global, a Capitol Hill consulting firm.

“I want there to be the optimal sweet spot between respect “Twenty years ago maybe a bigger, more expansive federal for tribal sovereignty and doing our job as regulators, to make regulatory agency would have been appropriate,” he says. “The sure that the industry is protected,” Chaudhuri says. “I think gap has, in the meantime, been filled by the tribes.” we can do both. The pendulum can’t go too far in either direction.

BIG BLOWBACK “You can’t just tick off NOVs and think you’re doing your job as the regulator. That is absolutely disrespectful to tribal ut there is increasing fear in Indian Country that the regulators. It’s repugnant to notions of sovereignty. regulatory pendulum is swinging too far in the wrong “Further, it runs the risk of missing out on opportunities direction—that easing NIGC enforcement is generatto leverage active communication with the more than 5,400 ing a political backlash and eroding the regulatory integrity of tribal regulators in the field. the tribal casino industry.

“At the same time you can’t just wash your hands of the Major areas of concern raised by those consulted by Tribal hard calls in Indian Country and say, ‘We’ll just completely Government Gaming include: leave it up to our partners and look the other way.’ We can’t • NIGC’s failure to take action against the Bay Mills take a completely hands-off approach to enforcement.

Indian community of Michigan for pursuing a casino on non“There is a sweet spot between the two, and I think that’s trust lands, an act of defiance that led to a potentially damagwhere we’re going.” ing U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

• NIGC’s lack of leadership on internet gambling as tribes LOOMING STUDY SPELLS launch social gaming websites and, in California, a potentially landmark real-money bingo operation that has prompted fedCONTROVERSY eral and state lawsuits.

• NIGC’s inability to prevent casino takeovers by factions ome fear McCain and others will use the GAO audit of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians and Picayune to seek greater federal regulation of tribal casinos, posRancheria of Chukchansi Indians in California, at times viosibly by amending IGRA. lent confrontations that embarrassed the industry.

The preliminary GAO report says NOVs fell from 45 in Lacking a proactive regulatory approach to these and other 2009 to three each in 2010 and 2011, one in 2012 and none issues, critics say, could render the agency meaningless. in 2013. Of the 45 2009 NOVs, 38 were for late “quarterly “If the agency doesn’t engage on key issues in Indian gamstatement or fee submission,” six for delayed audits and one

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—Jamie Hummingbird, chairman of the National Tribal Gaming Commissioners and Regulators

gambling, prompting a potentially damaging U.S. Supreme for improper per-capita payments.

Court review.

Regulations limiting the use of NOVs were enacted after NIGC had opined it could not close Bay Mills because its Hogen left the agency. jurisdiction was limited to Indian lands, a position that ignited “Based on the preliminary findings, the GAO will certainly the ire of the National Congress of American Indians and other show that enforcements are down,” says Jana McKeag, an tribal groups.

Oklahoma Cherokee and president of Lowry Strategies, a Fortunately, justices last year in a Bay Mills ruling upheld Washington consulting firm. “Critics will use that to seek greater tribal sovereignty, ending a string of anti-Indian decisions. federal regulations.”

“I was very proud of our team at the NIGC in their efforts NIGC was established largely to maintain the integrity of the to coordinate with the Department of Justice and the industry through oversight functions—monitoring the work of tribal commissions, enacting regulations, auditing operations and Department of the Interior to submit an amicus brief in support of sovereign immunity,” Chaudhuri said in a telephone interview approving management compacts and tribal ordinances. during which he mostly read responses hurriedly supplied by an But its ability to promulgate minimum internal control stanNIGC attorney. dards (MICS) for casino-style, Class III gambling was crippled Others are more critical. by a 2006 federal court ruling involving the Colorado River “The NIGC should have dealt with Bay Mills within the Indian tribes. Class III gambling constitutes the bulk of the administrative process and avoided the litigation,” says NTGCR industry. Roughly 300,000 of the 350,000 slot machines in attorney Sharon House, a Wisconsin Oneida.

Indian Country are Class III devices.

“Bad law is often made when policymakIGRA requires that tribes seeking to operers don’t take the bull by the horns,” ate Class III gambling enter into tribal-state Valandra says. “We got lucky in Bay Mills. regulatory agreements, or compacts, with No one expected that outcome.” states in which they are located. McCain supports amending IGRA to expand NIGC jurisdiction over Class III gambling.

Hogen pressed for Class III MICS, which INTERNET ACTION many believe saved the tribal industry more than $1 billion during its infancy, a period NEEDED when it may have been preferable to have an assertive NIGC rather than risk a scandal ribes have pressed NIGC to take the that could have crippled a fledgling industry. lead in internet gambling, beginning “When you look back, it was kind of in 2010 with NIGC Chairwoman frightening,” Hogen recalls. “There were tribTracie Stevens, a Washington Tulalip and al councils that served as gaming commisObama appointee who stonewalled Indian sions and didn’t know the difference between Affairs Committee attempts to discuss Based on the the function of one and the other. It caused a NIGC’s ability to regulate online wagering. preliminary findings, concern.

NIGC has refused to revisit a 2000 opinthe GAO will certainly “Tribal commissions have improved, ion on off-reservation wagers. matured. There’s been an evolution.” show that enforcements It has also declined to weigh in on the are down. Critics will Ipai Nation of Santa Ysabel’s effort to launch a Class II bingo website on its San Diego use that to seek greater TRIBES ‘LUCKY’ IN BAY County reservation. The tribe is locked in federal regulations. potentially landmark federal and state lawMILLS DECISION —Jana McKeag, president of suits over the shuttered website.

Lowry Strategies and one of “Tribes are moving on internet wagerIGC was criticized for failing to act the first members of the NIGC ing,” House says. “It would be much more in 2010, when Bay Mills opened a beneficial if they could do it in conjunction casino on land not held in trust for

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The NIGC made a policy “decision that they’re going to regulate with a light hand, or a lighter hand. The jury is still out on that.

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—Phil Hogen, former NIGC chairman

with NIGC. Instead of making opinions to provide guidance, NIGC waits until it becomes a real issue. By then the matter is too far gone.”

“They have tiptoed into the internet,” says Tom Foley, former NIGC commissioner. “They are afraid to take any leadership in that area.”

Chaudhuri says the agency, “through our training and technical assistance,” provides guidance on the internet.

“In light of the various types of proposed activities being developed, it is impossible for me or anyone at the agency to weigh in on the viability of a given game or operation without a thorough review,” he says.

“Providing a general statement on the various types of games would not only be impractical, it would be largely unhelpful to people who seek clarification of a given game.”

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oth the Paskenta and Chukchansi disputes resulted in violent confrontations. Paskenta’s Rolling Hills Casino has reopened. But the Chukchansi Gold Casino & Resort remains closed following an October court order requested by state and NIGC officials.

Chukchansi, it was learned, had not submitted an audit to NIGC for more than two years.

“Two years with no audits. That should have been a warning sign,” McKeag says.

Paskenta failed to get an NIGC shutdown of the facility “because there were allegations millions of dollars were going out the back door,” McKeag says. “There was certainly the potential for violence.”

“It isn’t bad policy if you have a tribe engaged in some turmoil—where you know there’s nothing terribly wrong—that you give them time to file financial statements,” Valandra says. “But in the case of Chukchansi there was a serious problem.”

“The agency was very active in its response to both” tribes, Chaudhuri counters. “As to Chukchansi, multiple NOVs were issued and prior to those NOVs multiple letters of concern were sent to the tribe.”

Chaudhuri and NIGC counsel did not elaborate.

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PROTECTING TRIBAL ASSETS ribes hailed Stevens as a refreshing alternative to Hogen.

She increased tribal consultations, launched the ACE initiative, streamlined regulations and limited NOVs for

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late audits and fees. She also merged audit and enforcement divisions into a single compliance unit.

Stevens also promulgated new Class II regulations and machine standards that promoted the industry and made it easier for tribes to self-regulate bingo-style gambling.

But Stevens, one of the few non-lawyer chairs of NIGC, lacked regulatory and legal experience. She was the first NIGC chair to hire an in-house counsel to assist her in answering regulatory questions.

She also was criticized for blurring the distinction between regulating and facilitating the industry. Her tribal-friendly approach earned her a standing ovation from tribal leaders attending a 2011 gaming conference, an unusual response to an industry regulator.

Chaudhuri has at least partially backed off from Stevens’ proindustry position.

“We have a statutory mission to ensure the integrity of gaming,” he says. “I don’t think it would be accurate to say any of our actions would be geared to marketplace considerations.”

Virtually all the testimony in dozens of hours of tribal consultations conducted by Stevens was focused on means of streamlining regulations to the benefit of tribal regulators and elected officials.

There was no discussion of means by which regulations could better ensure the protection of casino resources for tribal citizens.

“The first thing anybody working with the federal government on behalf of Indian tribes needs to know, and remember, is they have a trust responsibility to the Indians,” Hogen said shortly after stepping down as NIGC chairman.

“That doesn’t mean tribal leaders or casino regulators or the folks sitting across the table, but the walk-around Indians: the young people out there going to school on scholarships; the sick needing dialysis treatment. That’s the priority, to make sure gaming dollars don’t walk out the back door.”

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FEARING FALLOUT ttorney House contends much of the controversy over the need for federal oversight could be allayed if tribal commissions did more to promote the work they do in regulating the industry.

“The regulators know how to regulate,” she says. “But their work goes unnoticed.”

Tahsuda is optimistic the GAO will come out with a final report favorable to the tribes.

But Hummingbird is not so sure.

“It could be very damaging,” he says. “Tribes have worked hard to develop regulations and build their reputation. If the report paints the NIGC as not providing adequate oversight, it may take years to get that trust back.”

O White House Welcome Mat The tribal experience in the Obama administration

By Michael J. Anderson

ON A BRUTALLY COLD JANUARY 20, 2009, I WATCHED THE inauguration of President Barack Obama with other Native American guests at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Just a few hundred yards away, history was being made with the swearing-in of our first African-American president.

Hopes and expectations were high for the new leader of the free world, and a little humor was welcome as Rev. Joseph Lowery, former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, pronounced the following benediction: Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around—(laughter)—when yellow will be mellow—(laughter)—when the red man can get ahead, man—(laughter)—and when white will embrace what is right.

Let all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

Audience: Amen!

The challenge was clear from the beginning that Native Americans and native nation leaders wanted progress, and the fulfillment of a government-to-government relationship that was seriously deficient during the Bush administration.

Those deficiencies included the decades-long recalcitrance of the federal government in attempting to settle the Cobell breach-of-trust case, the clear lack of engagement on native issues by President W. Bush, an informal moratorium

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Obama required each federal agency to develop a policy on consultation with native nations, which led to an overall effort by the federal government to strengthen its communications with Indian Country. on land-into-trust applications, and an off-reservation gaming policy issued by the Department of the Interior without any tribal consultation.

While Indian gaming continued to grow by several billion dollars during the Bush administration, and dozens of new tribal gaming establishments opened, several episodes fostered distrust between native nations and their trustees, including gaming scandals associated with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Interior Deputy Secretary Steven Griles, both of whom were convicted for illegal activities involving Indian tribes.

GOOD START s the Obama era began, his record as president with respect to Indian Country would be centered on four agencies: the Department of the Interior, the National Indian Gaming Commission, Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice. While many other federal agencies (Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service) are critical to the special relationship with Indian Country, the focus on the above four major agencies indelibly shapes the image of each new administration for good or bad.

Obama made a number of detailed campaign promises to American Indian and Alaska Native voters that he sought to fulfill as his term began.

One was to conduct an annual meeting with tribal leaders similar to what President Clinton had done on occasion while in office, but on a more formalized basis. In practice, these meetings, which some derided as a mere photo op, became the means for the most direct interaction by Native Americans with the president and his cabinet in over a decade.

Many cabinet secretaries also utilized this opportunity to announce major policy initiatives. Obama also required each federal agency to develop a policy on consultation with native nations, which led to an overall effort by the federal government to strengthen its communications with Indian Country. At the end of the president’s first term, he also established an internal working group on native issues similar to what was known in the Clinton administration as the Domestic Policy Working Group.

After taking office, the slow process of establishing a permanent Native American affairs team began. An initial frustration with the new administration began to settle in as key positions in the Interior Department and elsewhere remained unfilled even after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was confirmed. This led the permanent staff at the Department of the Interior and other agencies to place on hold many key decisions until new appointees arrived, which in turn led to increased frustration from tribes on the lack of activity.

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Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes was one of the first confirmed nominees with experience in native issues (which, as we will discuss, proved to be a mixed blessing for native nations). During the first summer of the administration in 2009, almost all of the key native positions were filled.

Most notable were the key positions of Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk, Interior Solicitor Hillary Tompkins, Indian Health Service Director Yvette Robideaux and White House appointee Kim Tee Hee. These experienced appointees were to guide most administration decision-making on native issues throughout the first years of the administration, and were generally to the benefit of Indian Country.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS owever, at the Interior Department, the assistant secretary (and his cadre of young, bright deputies) experienced what has over the years become routine and frustrating for the Indian office. True decision-making is often made behind closed doors between the secretary, his top staff and the assistant secretary. I encountered this firsthand when my client, the Gun Lake Tribe, sought a routine reservation proclamation for its gaming establishment.

The proclamation was necessary to actually commence gaming on Gun Lake’s newly acquired trust property pursuant to one of the exceptions for trust lands acquired after 1988. While the assistant secretary was prepared to sign the proclamation days after his confirmation in June 2009, it took another two and a half months of intense tribal lobbying for the proclamation to be issued.

Reportedly, the deputy secretary opposed this action.

Fortunately, then-Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm was also an enthusiastic supporter of the tribe.

This early battle signaled what was to become a stalemate on many issues between the secretary’s office and the assistant secretary with respect to gaming issues. Over the next two years, the department was at a virtual standstill on Federal Register publications for new gaming acquisitions, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Record of Decision(s) (ROD) for gaming projects, and even routine publications of NEPA Notices of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statements for gaming projects.

This standstill reflected conflicting agendas within the department and unjustified sensitivity in the secretary’s office to the anti-gaming views of California Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein not only opposed the growth of Indian casinos in urban areas, but routinely disparaged all casino gaming, Indian and non-Indian.

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DELAYED BUT ENERGIZED his stalemate festered, and by June 2011, tribal leaders, the National Congress of American Indians and tribal advocates were at a boiling point over Interior’s bureaucratic delays on gaming projects.

By then, hundreds of millions of dollars of even non-controversial gaming projects had been delayed. Finally in June 2011, Assistant Secretary Echo Hawk announced the end of the Bush administration’s notorious 2008 offreservation gaming memorandum and its “commutablity standard”—basically requiring that Indian casinos be located within a worker’s driving distance. (This standard led to some gallows humor by some wags who wondered if the standard was akin to commuting in Montana or Washington, D.C.) Echo Hawk’s announcement rescinding the Bush memorandum allowed the NEPA process to go forward for dozens of projects and ultimately resulted in a number of decisions on off-reservation gaming projects.

Whether tribal leaders supported or opposed off-reservation gaming, it only seemed fair that the NEPA processes necessary for decision-making to go forward.

For the remainder of the Echo Hawk tenure, which went to the end of the first Obama term, long-delayed decisions finally began to be implemented. This pace was increased after Echo Hawk’s replacement Kevin Washburn was confirmed.

In hindsight, the first two years of the Obama administration were probably the lowest point with respect to the promotion of Indian gaming. Along with the interminable delays in the processing of fee-to-trust applications for gaming projects and the lack of Federal Register notices under NEPA, the administration had to deal with the challenges wrought by the 2009 United States Supreme Court decision in Carcieri v. Salazar.

In Carcieri, the court ruled that Indian tribes had to be “under federal jurisdiction” in 1934 for the secretary of interior to have authority to take land in trust for them under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. This led to widespread confusion over which native nations met this standard, and paralysis at the Department of the Interior Solicitor’s Office on how to process certain fee-to-trust applications.

The U.S. Congress was quick to react to the decision by calling several hearings on a “legislative fix,” but the White House never sought to make the fix a legislative priority by bargaining for its inclusion in must-pass legislation.

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Larry Echo Hawk was Obama’s first assistant secretary for Indian afairs

Kim Tee Hee was the first senior policy adviser for Native American affairs in the Obama White House

Changes came quickly when former University of New Mexico Law School Dean Kevin Washburn took over for Echo Hawk at the BIA

California Senator Dianne Feinstein still is an impediment to Native American progress in the nation’s capital

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was the revelation in 2010 that the Interior Department through Deputy Secretary Hayes had been engaged in a secret legislative drafting process with Feinstein to develop a “Carcieri fix” that also included damaging amendments to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. NCAI and the National Indian Gaming Association had long sought to keep IGRA free of damaging amendments during the Carcieri process, and the department suffered a black eye when, without consultation, they attempted to facilitate an unacceptable compromise.

CARCIERI AND COBELL CONCERNS s the temperature in Indian Country rose in 2009, 2010 and 2011 concerning the lack of advocacy on Carcieri and the processing of gaming projects, the logjam was finally broken by Echo Hawk’s announcement in June 2011 affirmatively allowing the processing of gaming applications, including those for offreservation projects. This was seen as a positive development, particularly when coupled with the earlier landmark Solicitor’s Office decision on December 14, 2010 regarding the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

In that decision, the Solicitor’s Office finally memorialized its guidance on how to construe the Carcieri case and what tests it would utilize to determine whether a tribe was “under federal jurisdiction” in 1934.

The opinion was reasonable, detailed and flexible on how tribes could meet the jurisdiction test. Even so, if the Obama administration’s legacy on Indian gaming was limited to its early years, the record would have been one of distrust, delay and obfuscation. Fortunately, the first two years have not been indicative of the years 2011-2015 when the Interior Department issued dozens of game decisions, restored land decisions and offreservation “two-part” decisions. While many delays still exist due to staffing, it is not the result of a top-down lockdown on progress.

For many in Indian Country, the failures in the Indian gaming arena were greatly overshadowed by the phenomenal success of the department and its leadership team of Solicitor Hillary Tompkins, Deputy Secretary Hayes and Department of Justice attorney Tom Perrelli in negotiating a $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell case on December 8, 2009.

This was later enacted by Congress in the Claims Resolution Act of 2010. The Cobell settlement ended years of vitriolic relations between the plaintiffs, and in particular their

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The Cobell settlement will likely be seen as the signature achievement for Indian Country during the Obama administration. This settlement also paved the way for the settlement of numerous individual tribal claims against the United States for trust account violations, sometimes totaling in the millions of dollars.

OBAMA VICTORIES he Obama administration’s legislative record has seen impressive legislative victories in measures like the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) (extending certain tribal jurisdiction to non-Indians), the Stafford Act (granting tribes certain disaster relief authorities), the Hearth Act (improvement to leasing on Indian lands), the General Welfare Act (favorable tax provisions) and the renewal of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. One notable failure has been the lack of an aforementioned Carcieri fix. While Indian Country publicly appears unified on a “clean fix” with no damaging amendments, the practice has seen the opposite.

Some tribal leaders and their Washington, D.C. lobbyists frequently undermine efforts to achieve a clean fix by offering suggestions of unacceptable compromises. Most notably, Indian Country representatives effectively torpedoed a clean fix at the end of the 112th Congress when Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman Daniel Akaka received a floor vote for his legislation.

As senior staff to the committee later noted, a number of Republican senators were prepared to vote for the legislation along with most Democrats, but the fear by some advocates that amendments could be added (and others who thought a losing vote would permanently damage the effort) ended up, along with the NCAI and others, lobbying to pull the bill.

Regrettably, this cratering of support caused the bill to be withdrawn, and it has yet to see a floor vote since. The White House was notably silent during that end-of-year process, and that silence was also noted on Capitol Hill.

Even so, it is but one negative on a fine record.

The Obama administration began with a plea for the “red man to get ahead, man,” and an objective analysis will show significant gains for Indian Country in terms of funding, land acquisition, settlements, increased jurisdiction and tribal self-determination. After a rocky start, the administration has found sure footing from the president on down to his appointees like Washburn, Deputy Assistant Secretary Larry Roberts and NIGC Chairman Jonodev Chaudhuri.

If solid achievements can continue, President Obama may earn and deserve this moniker from Indian Country— best president ever.

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attorneys, with the Interior Department defendants and its attorneys. The case, which was ultimately found to be justified legally and morally, had often poisoned relations between the department and its Indian trust beneficiaries.

The Cobell settlement will likely be seen as the signature achievement for Indian Country during the Obama administration. This settlement also paved the way for the settlement of numerous individual tribal claims against the United States for trust account violations, sometimes totaling in the millions of dollars.

The administration built on this success on December 27, 2011 when the Department of Agriculture settled the Keepseagle v. Vilsack class-action lawsuit. This $760 million settlement ended a lawsuit over whether the USDA discriminated against Native Americans by denying them equal access to credit in the USDA Farm Loan Program.

In addition, the Interior Department and the Department of Justice settled a number of long-standing Indian water claims against the United States in Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Montana.

The Department of Health and Human Services enjoyed significant funding increases during the Obama administration, but unfortunately its funding requests were typically below what the Interior Appropriations Committee and the Congress appropriated. Fortunately, the Indian Health Service (IHS) had strong bipartisan advocates on the key funding committees, including congressional members Tom Cole, Betty McCollum, Jim Moran and Ken Calvert.

The major division between IHS and Indian Country was the budget for contract support costs, which were routinely underfunded even after tribes won a significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter (2012). The contract support issue threatens to become as divisive as the Cobell case if a solution is not found to this annual problem soon.

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Michael J. Anderson has practiced law for over 25 years and has served for the past 10 years as outside legal counsel to more than a dozen American Indian tribal governments. He is the founder of Anderson Indian Law in Washington, D.C. and prior to that was the co-founder of AndersonTuell, LLP. Before his tenure in private law practice, Anderson served for eight years in the Clinton administration as associate solicitor and deputy assistant secretary for Indian Affairs.

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‘Till You

Drop

Tribes add retail, restaurants and racing in effort to compete

BY DAVE BONTEMPO

Tanger Outlets at Foxwoods

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ow does a wallet compare with a tout sheet?

Or jewelry with a slot machine ticket?

They are symbols of action at different ends of the red-hot gaming-amenity spectrum. Shoppers and horse players, coming from opposite vantage points, direct tribal gaming’s next financial break from the gate.

The $120 million Tanger Outlets, connected on either end by a casino at Foxwoods in Connecticut, opens May 21. It is projected to spike the casino’s visitation totals from 9 million to 12 million, provide nearly 1,000 jobs and bring about $10 million tax revenue to the state.

In New York, an estimated $100 million, high-end shopping lineup tentatively called “The Next Big Thing” breaks ground this spring at Turning Stone Casino. It will be completed next year.

Both projects should attract new revenue and extend hotel visitation, via shopping excellence. Each has the signature of the Gordon Group, the distinguished developer of the Forum Shops that diversified Las Vegas’ amenities menu.

Outlet patrons have become a built-in revenue stream for gaming operators who accommodate them. They represent a lightly tapped customer base and can even “shop ‘till they improve the drop” by adding gambling to their activity.

It’s a different story for horse racing, an ailing industry that became a reclamation project for new investors. Tribal ownership has stabilized tracks in Oklahoma, Texas and Washington. Multimillion-dollar cash infusions, cou-

pled with on-site gaming devices, have rescued tracks and brought money into tribal coffers. They have also relieved horse-racing purists who worry about new owners closing down their facilities.

The outlet customers and racing diehards play a prominent role in gaming’s future. Each represents a revenue ideal: Bling is cha-ching. Or, its po$t time.

‘TANGER-BLE’ ASSET FOXWOODS MAKES A BIG PLAY WITH THE TANGER OUTLETS, an enclosed quarter-mile corridor with 82 retail shops that customers can enter only by walking through one side or the other of Foxwoods Resort Casino. One side of the Outlets is connected to the casino floor by the Fox Tower and the other is near the Grand Pequot Casino.

The May 21 grand opening becomes a timely, early-summer season kickoff.

Annette DeBois, vice president of retail and development operations for Foxwoods, cites the synergy between gaming and shopping facilities posted near each other. Foxwoods gains a link connecting two of its gambling areas. Tanger, in the rare role of being an interior property, obtains gaming to spike its foot traffic.

“It opens up the opportunity to make a full day or full weekend out of your visit,” DeBois asserts. “Gaming customers can bring others with them who do not want to game but do wish for something else to do.”

Neither shopping nor gaming has to be finite. A person can combine both activities, using each as a break from the other.

“One of the biggest downfalls in outlet-mall shopping is that you have to ask yourself afterward whether you can get lunch or whether you can sit down and have a drink,” DeBois says. “Well, for our existing customers who come to Foxwoods for gaming, we now have this beautiful mall connecting two properties, and when you walk into the casino, you can have wonderful entertainment, food and beverage options.”

Not to mention an intangible, like bonus spending. Nail a nice payout in the casino and celebrate with an unanticipated purchase in the outlets. Casino reward dollars also will be honored in most Tanger shops, DeBois confirms.

Gaming and shopping could hardly be more interlocked.

The investment underscores reaction to nearby competi-

tion in Rhode Island, the advent of casinos in Massachusetts and the presence of gaming in New York. All have been feeder regions for Connecticut-based Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods, which have lost a share of all those markets. Although Foxwoods and Mohegan have about $3.5 billion in combined debt, they remain committed to priming the financial pump.

Mohegan Sun, already featuring abundant shopping and a major sports arena that hosts everything from professional basketball to major championship fights, added indoor lacrosse in January. It obtained the Philadelphia Wings and renamed them the New England Black Hawks, placing them in the 9,500-seat arena.

From the Foxwoods perspective, DeBois retains a fullsteam-ahead approach.

“We always have to up our game and reinvent ourselves,” she indicates. “We are never in a static environment, never going to reach the end of the journey. You have to love the challenge. What we’ve done is exciting. We have become a shopping destination and we have created so many jobs.”

Turning Stone would like to make similar projections next year.

“The Next Big Thing,” so dubbed until a permanent name is found, will be an expansive 250,000-square-foot enclosed venue. It will feature a mix of 60 luxury brand retailers, 15,000 square feet of varied dining options, a six-screen movie theater, a deluxe bowling alley, and designer features including fountains that captivate guests with daily water shows.

Ray Halbritter, CEO of Nation Enterprises, says the luxury outlet and entertainment venue will create more than 1,100 new jobs. That could mean tens of million of dollars for surrounding counties and state tax coffers.

The Oneida Indian Nation estimates the addition will result in another 5 million visits a year after it opens in the fall of 2016, roughly doubling the number of visits it receives now.

RETAIL HAS EMERGED MINNESOTA-BASED CUNINGHAM GROUP, SPARKED BY PRINCIPAL Tom Hoskens, witnessed a retail evolution in small, medium and large sizes over recent years.

The small size, represented by a retail concourse and restaurant section tucked inside a project of about half a billion dollars for the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina a couple of years ago, provided a complementary gaming piece. The medi-

Rendering of “The Next Big Thing” at Turning Stone

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The Chickasaw Tribe’s Remington Park

“In Las Vegas, the non-gaming revenue is about 64 percent of the total mix now,” he indicates. “Las Vegas is continuing to grow. They had 41 million visitors, the highest ever last year.

The draw is not just gaming, it is everything else. This is the direction that casino resorts and towns needs to follow. They just have to figure out a way to do this on the retail end.”

SLS certainly will. It plans to open a 22,000-seat basketball arena next May, add movie theaters and light shows, and create an overall phenomenon Hoskens equates with Times Square.

Outlets at Viejas in San Diego County um space can be seen as an attached outlet shopping section adjacent to a property for Viejas casino near San Diego. The Viejas Outlet Center has more than 40 shops, a bowling alley and restaurants across the street from the casino, a partner to the facilities. It has operated since the late 1990s.

The colossal retail statement can be made at Las Vegasbased SLS, which opened last August and will ultimately have a 200,000-square-foot retail offering, Hoskens says. The Cuningham Group is part of that effort to glamorize nongaming amenities.

“When you talk about retail, you get everything from bargains to bling,” Hoskens says. “Retail was once just an accent piece, but you can now expand that to become a huge generator of income if you have more stores. This is the wave of the future, something that can really help companies expand their economic base.

“It was not long ago that people were saying $1,000 per square foot of gaming was solid,” he recalls. “Now that number is up over $2,000 in many places—I recently saw that it was $2,289 in Macau. My goodness, that’s gorgeous. At the same time that gambling revenue is going down, retail is going up, sometimes 15 percent a year.

“When you build a shopping complex, it gives different people things to do. One will spend on retail, another will spend money gambling. Does the shopping option help extend visiting days? You bet it does. They will stay longer because there are enough activities.”

Hoskens says the average demographic age for Las Vegas visitors is 46. The younger population savors the nightclub and restaurant experience either as a gaming alternative or a complement to it.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT MEMPHIS-BASED HNEDAK BOBO GROUP HAS A LONG, prosperous relationship with tribal gaming. On a grand scale, it helped with the development of WinStar, one of the world’s largest casinos for gaming space. WinStar is located in Oklahoma near the Texas border.

Drilled down to a smaller scale, HBG works with properties on how they present amenities.

Dike Bacon, principal for HBG, says the craft/experimental food trend remains a compelling intersection that joins the technology-enabled and informed customer with the strong localized farm-to-table movement. This trend is weighted toward healthy eating, high-quality preparation and unique, locally sourced ingredients. It is driving an artisan aesthetic that impacts designs in many ways, he contends.

“We’re doing more chef ’s tables, large community tables and open-display kitchens where guests are entertained by the artful preparation of food while they dine,” Bacon says. “One important key to this design aesthetic is having many different experiences within a single space.

“We are creating amenity spaces that are more timeless, fresh, and specific to a point of view. Transformative ‘experience’ is often found in the peeling back of layers that tell a story or unfold in creative and differentiating ways,” Bacon adds. “To the potential peril of some national brands, this is the exact opposite of the rubber-stamped, formulaic product.

Today’s customers demand an amenity product that is real and often grounded in a local or regional context. We’re combining ideas that may have some nostalgia or eclecticism to them, but are paired with unlikely or unexpected design details that give the environment a less convoluted or scripted feel.”

Many of the food and beverage spaces HBG designs for the West Valley Resort in Arizona follow these design hall-

Muckleshoot Tribe’s Emerald Downs

marks. Industrial influences are paired with high-tech modern amenities in some of the F&B venues, while others are open to expansive views to the outdoors and connect farm to table in an authentic way.

“Rather than transporting the guest to another place or time thematically, we are celebrating the unique, local culture and authenticity of the food and environment,” Bacon says.

While food excellence remains a staple of customers, the shopping will ideally be linked to a property.

TRIBES KEEP PACE THE MOST LITERAL INTERSECTION OF SHOPPING AND RACING occurs at Chickasaw-owned Remington Park in Oklahoma City.

It was built in 1988 by the late Edward DeBartolo Sr., a shopping mall developer who also owned Thistledown in Cleveland and Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana.

The horse-racing industry had varied partnership visions between racing, shopping and the advent of simulcasting. Most of those plans faded, giving way to the racing concept that combined casino slots with racetracks.

Into that realm stepped Global Gaming Solutions, the gaming arm of the Chickasaw Nation. It has owned and revitalized Remington Park since 2010. The Cherokee-owned Will Rogers facility outside Tulsa, Oklahoma has been in operation several years longer.

Remington sports a second floor with approximately 750 gaming devices, while Will Rogers offers 250 on its first floor.

Tribal influence has forged a wire-to-wire success story at these establishments, according to Constantin Rieger, executive director of the Oklahoma Racing Commission.

“The Chickasaw ownership of Remington is going quite well,” Rieger says. “The gross revenues are up, the race quality is up and the tracks are pretty proud of their product. It’s real nice when a track adds gaming devices but remains a track.

The racing benefits from the gaming and gaming benefits from the racing. By law there would be no gaming without the races because they can’t turn the machines on without them. You can’t gobble up one to make the other work.”

There was no gobble-up here. The tribe anted up, purchasing the facility for about $80 million and pouring $15 million of improvements into the clubhouse, parimutuel windows, spectator-viewing areas and a four-story, high-definition infield screen. Armed with gaming devices to complement racing, 26 TRIB AL GOVERNMENT G AMING 2015

Remington became a destination.

Rieger says the tribes show sound philosophy. They set up the racing/gaming business model, let racing people handle that genre and reap the benefits.

“The formula I believe they have used is a gaming sense complemented with what they have been able to learn within this industry,” Rieger contends. “Look, they operate WinStar, not far away from here, so you know they have to be doing something right. When you combine all the acumen they bring from the gaming side and then their ability to get the right people into the racing end, they were bound to be successful, and they have been.”

Remington and Will Rogers combine for approximately 180 racing dates throughout the year. Remington Park also annually hosts the richest race in Oklahoma, the $1 million Heritage Place Futurity in May. Global Gaming Solutions ventured to neighboring Texas and purchased Lone Star in 2011. The well-known facility hosted the prestigious Breeders Cup Championships—horseracing’s version of the Super Bowl—in 2004. It prospers under the new ownership, averaging about 1 million fans per race season.

In Washington state, tribal connections with racing remain paramount. The Muckleshoot Tribe marks 2015 as its operational debut of Emerald Downs Race Track near Seattle. The tribe announced the purchase in November 2014 and expects to complete the ownership transition early in 2015.

Acquiring the track was long considered a logical step for the Muckleshoot Tribe. It has been Emerald Downs’ landlord since 2002, when it obtained the 157-acre property, and contributed more than $11 million in purse enhancements to keep the track afloat.

The sale renewed speculation that the Muckleshoot group will seek permission to install casino-style gambling at Emerald Downs. It already operates the successful Muckleshoot Casino, the state’s largest tribal property, about five miles southeast of Emerald.

Tribal officials have not confirmed long-term plans. Under state law, the Emerald site would have to be converted to trust land before the tribe could open a casino there. That’s a potentially lengthy process requiring federal approval.

Regardless of the time frame, its purchase of Emerald could, yet again, provide the financial injection to save a struggling track.

iPoker Hiccup in California Consensus seems more difficult as new bills are introduced

BY DAVE PALERMO

When American Indian tribal leaders gathered last February at Harrah’s Rincon Resort, nestled in the quiet, picturesque, rolling hills outside San Diego, much of the talk centered on the need to reach consensus on internet poker.

Agreement among a handful of politically influential tribal governments is believed crucial to efforts to legalize online wagering in California, which with a population of 38 million people is expected to be the country’s most lucrative statewide online poker market.

“California represents the plum when it comes to internet gaming,” Lee Acebedo, executive director of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, told delegates to the annual Western Indian Gaming Conference.

But when tribal leaders took to the microphones to address the approximately 350 conference attendees, the message was far from optimistic.

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the countryside.

An at times heated, closed-door gathering of leaders from nine politically powerful tribes left Sacramento legislators skeptical a bill legalizing internet poker will come out of the 2015 session, if ever.

“We thought we had a lot of support, a lot of momentum last year,” Chairman Bo Mazzetti of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians said of failed efforts by a 13-tribe coalition to get compromise legislation voted out of committee.

“Things have changed,” the chairman said, and a much smaller group of tribes seemed hopelessly deadlocked on key issues, primarily licensing parimutuel racetracks and “bad actor” language.

“If tribes don’t get together, there won’t be a bill,” Mazzetti said. “If we

don’t do a bill this year, there will not be internet poker in California.”

Robert Martin, chairman of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians— partner with another tribe, three Los Angeles area card rooms and Amaya/PokerStars in a coalition seeking online wagering—was even more pessimistic.

“All of the tribes are not going to get together,” Martin said. “It is just not going to happen.”

Assemblyman Mike Gatto, sponsor of one of two pending bills to legalize online poker, says the word out of Rincon led him to roll back his earlier prediction that his legislation stood a 5050 chance of success.

“I’m less optimistic that it will get done this year,” Gatto says.

What tribal attorney Stephen Hart calls the “very complicated mosaic” of internet politics in California has for nearly seven years been the focus of state officials, congressional leaders, tribes, card rooms, race tracks and gambling companies both in the United States and Europe.

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ut the future of online gambling in Indian Country may not be shaped in the state legislature. It may rest in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia.

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, a small, indigenous community in San Diego County, is waging what may prove to be a landmark legal battle with state and federal officials over efforts to run an online bingo website. (See related story, page 32.)

The tribe believes it can under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) offer internet Class II bingo regardless of whether tribes, card rooms and most likely the racing industry is successful in legalizing commercial online poker.

The Santa Ysabel lawsuit, which is expected to wind its way through the federal courts, may eventually pave the way for an explosion of online wagering in Indian Country.

Or it could prove a disaster for major Class II gambling markets in Oklahoma, Alabama and elsewhere.

“This can be a milestone case,” says independent consultant Norm DesRosiers, a former commissioner with the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC). DesRosiers has been retained by the tribe’s partner, Great Luck LLC, as an expert witness in the litigation.

“If the tribe prevails it will not only enable other tribes to engage in bingo with the internet as a technological aid, but poker, which is also Class II gaming.

Tribes will be able to get into the internet gambling business with no state or

federal regulations.”

But there are risks for tribes operating the roughly 35,000 Class II machines (8 percent to 12 percent of the tribal casino inventory nationwide) if the courts find the devices are facsimiles of Class III, casino-style games which require tribal-state regulatory agreements, or compacts.

Economist Alan Meister, author of the Indian Gaming Industry Report, estimates Class II machines generate 14 percent of the tribal casino industry’s $28 billion in annual revenue.

“I don’t appreciate Great Luck putting us all out there,” says John Tahsuda, a tribal attorney and lobbyist for the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association.

Oklahoma tribes operate roughly half the nation’s Class II machines.

“ We thought we had a lot of support, a lot of momentum last year. Things have changed. ” —Bo Mazzetti, chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians

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t came as little surprise at the Rincon conference that some prominent tribes were in angst over the delay in getting an internet poker bill out of the legislature.

The Rincon and Pala bands of Luiseño Indians and United Auburn Indian Community were reportedly being pressured by their online partnerships.

Rincon has a management agreement with Caesars Entertainment; Pala’s enterprise, Pala Interactive, was launching a website in New Jersey; and United Auburn has a longstanding agreement with Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment.

Tensions increased when it was learned New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have been delaying the

Amaya/PokerStars launch at the bequest of billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The casino mogul has been urging Congress to outlaw online gambling.

In a letter to pending bill sponsors Gatto and Reginald Jones-Sawyer, the three tribes and more than 20 card rooms said they were willing to accept extending licenses to parimutuel racing associations and agreed to softening “bad actor” and “tainted asset” provisions.

Bad-actor provisions were drafted to prohibit the licensing of foreign companies that accepted U.S. wagers after passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA).

The provisions were apparently targeted to online giant PokerStars, which

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Clearly we have “a long way to go resolve the outstanding issues.

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—Mark Macarro chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians before being purchased by Amaya Gaming last year paid $730 million to settle a Department of Justice investigation.

Rincon is in partnership with Caesars Entertainment, which last week said it believes Amaya/PokerStars should at least be considered for licensing in the United States, a U-turn from its prior position on the issue.

The shifting position on the two issues riled some tribal leaders at the closed-door meeting, particularly Chairman Mark Macarro of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians of Temecula.

Pechanga and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs have been steadfast in their opposition to licensing racetracks and easing bad-actor provisions in bill language.

Pechanga officials said they were “ambushed” when informed at the meeting of the Feb. 10 letter to Gatto and Jones-Sawyer. Leaders from nine tribes attended the session, which did not include Morongo and San Manuel,

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though they were invited.

Macarro and Rincon Councilman Steve Stallings at one point got into a heated exchange.

“This was an ambush, plain and simple, under the pretense of consensusbuilding,” a tribal official said.

“Unfortunately, the letter, which tribes did not know of until arriving at the meeting, effectively capitulates on principles of great importance for tribal rights and future tribal generations,” Macarro said.

“The ploy was disingenuous and disrespectful toward most tribes attending today’s meeting. Clearly we have a long way to go to resolve the outstanding issues.”

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fficials with Rincon, Auburn and Pala contend Pechanga has dominated closed-door discussions on internet poker, which they believe have not been progressive.

In seven years of legislative debate, an internet poker bill has never made it out of committee.

“We just got tired of years of endless, unproductive meetings,” said a tribal leader who requested anonymity.

The two tribes, with support from a few other Indian governments, have the political clout to block a bill, industry and capital observers said.

“Without Pechanga, there will be no bill,” said one state official who requested anonymity. The official said it would not be difficult to block a tax bill requiring a two-thirds vote for passage.

“Without Pechanga and Agua on board, it’s going to be tough sledding,” said another high-ranking official who also requested anonymity.

In addition to backing off his prediction that online poker had a 50-50 chance of passing, Gatto objected to characterizations by the tribes that he and bill sponsor Jones-Sawyer were “overwhelmingly sup-

portive” of proposed amendments offered by the Rincon and Pala bands of Luiseño Indians, United Auburn Indian Community and more than 20 card rooms.

Gatto’s AB 9 limits website licenses to tribes and card rooms. It also prohibits licensing companies that took U.S. wagers after passage of UIGEA. “I welcome the letter,” says Gatto. “This is exactly what is supposed to happen in the legislative process. People who have an interest are supposed to submit their comments on how we can improve any legislation. Do I welcome it? Yes. Do I embrace it? No. Do I agree with everything in it? No.” Jones-Sawyer, whose AB 167 extends license eligibility to tracks and includes no bad-actor or tainted-assets language, did not respond to requests for comment.

Macarro and Agua Caliente Chairman Jeff Grubbe are not likely to budge on their opposition to tracks and softening bad-actor language.

Expanding gambling in the state, they believe, would encroach on tribal casino exclusivity and jeopardize the industry’s sustainability for future generations.

“No iPoker in California is the clearly preferable option” to legislation licensing tracks and bad-actor companies, Grubbe says.

“We’re not doing iPoker in a vacuum,” Macarro says. “There’s a public policy that not only can’t be ignored, it has to be addressed.”

Parimutuel racing, a broad-based, largely agricultural industry that includes tracks, breeders and labor unions, would expand the internet coalition throughout the state. But few believe it would generate a two-thirds vote this year. And they are more skeptical it will get through the legislature in 2016, an election year.

Chairman Martin has long contended that the agenda for a number of California tribes was to block legislation.

He finds the position of Macarro, Grubbe and others to reinforce that belief.

“It’s not going to happen,” he says.

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Odle says Santa Ysabel and Great Luck did not ask for a game classification opinion from NIGC prior to launching the website.

“Often, tribes will contact the NIGC for a game classification opinion prior to offering a new game,” he says. “The NIGC offers this assistance to avoid risk, uncertainty and costly litigation.”

Santa Ysabel Chairman Virgil Perez says the tribe is seeking affirmation from NIGC that Desert Rose Bingo is legal Class II gaming designed to conform with NIGC minimum internal controls and in accordance with an NIGC-approved tribal gaming ordinance.

“We are hopeful the NIGC will not stay silent,” Perez says.

The simmering dispute between the tribe, Great Luck and the NIGC strikes at growing sentiment among tribal officials and regulators that the federal agency needs to take a more proactive leadership role on internet gambling.

“Tribes are going to move on internet wagering. It would be gambling compacts. much more beneficial if Harris contends internet they could do it in conbingo is a “facsimile” of a junction with NIGC,” says Class III casino-style game Sharon House, counsel for subject to the compact. the National Tribal Gaming The case is expected to Commissioners/Regulators. wind its way through the “Instead of making opin9th Circuit Court of ions to provide guidance, Appeals. they wait until it becomes a The tribe has not yet real issue. By then the matbeen served in the U.S. California Attorney General ter is too far gone.”

Kamala Harris sued to shut Department of Justice case, down the Iipay Nation’s NIGC officials did not which alleges the website Class II iGaming website, respond to the tribe’s sugviolates the Unlawful Desert Rose Bingo gested February 13 deadInternet Gambling line to affirm the website is Enforcement Act of 2006. in compliance with IGRA. The DOJ does not allege a Some tribal officials violation of IGRA. believe acting NIGC “The NIGC is currently Chairman Jonodev looking at the full range of Chaudhuri would likely IGRA compliance issues not engage in the litigation implicated by the gaming before his pending Senate that was being conducted confirmation. Tribal attorby Santa Ysabel and Great ney Graydon Luthey says Luck,” NIGC spokesman Norm DesRosiers, a former the NIGC “needs to conMike Odle says. commissioner with the sider jurisdiction issues The NIGC investigaNational Indian Gaming when you have a state reguCommission, is a consultant tion includes whether the to Great Luck Gaming lator—namely, the attorney partnership violates regulageneral of California—asktions requiring that most of ing a federal court to interthe revenues go to the tribe. pret IGRA.” “Our goal is to ensure that the regula“If I were the NIGC, that would make tory requirements of IGRA are met and that the tribe is the primary beneficiary of me uncomfortable because I’m the congressionally appointed regulator,” Luthey the gaming activity,” Odle says. says. “I’ve got some elected state official in Tribal and Great Luck officials say California doing what Congress has told they adhere to IGRA sole proprietary me to do.”—Dave Palermo guidelines. The tribe’s financially plagued

Betting on Bingo Santa Ysabel, NIGC squabbling over federal, state lawsuit A SMALL CALIFORNIA AMERICAN INDIAN tribe and its online business partner want federal regulators to weigh in on a potentially landmark lawsuit with state and federal prosecutors over an online bingo website.

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and Great Luck LLC are asking the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) to affirm the partnership is adhering to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in launching a bingo website taking off-reservation wagers.

Without NIGC action, tribal officials contend future determinations on the legality of gambling on Indian lands could be left to federal and state officials, seriously eroding tribal government sovereignty.

NIGC officials say they are investigating the Desert Rose Bingo website, which was shut down in December by a federal judge acting on a temporary restraining order requested by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.

Harris contends Desert Rose Bingo violates federal law, IGRA and a tribalstate regulatory compact.

Harris claims IGRA restricts gambling to Indian lands and that online wagers occur where both the gambler and server are located.

Santa Ysabel and Great Luck contend the web-browser-enabled bingo game is conducted by “proxy” players through an internet server on tribal land. Great Luck is not named in the complaint.

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UNDER PRESSURE

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he dreaded “S” word—saturaconundrum. So what’s a marketing tion—has been cropping up executive to do?

Tribal Government Gaming asked with increasing frequency FIVE SUGGESTIONS FROM five marketing experts—individuals over the past couple of MARKETING EXPERTS THAT and companies whose very liveliyears. With new states approving CAN BE IMPLEMENTED hood depends upon giving good casino gaming and current gaming IMMEDIATELY AND MAKE advice to casino executives about states expanding their offerings, A DIFFERENCE how to increase business—what a existing casinos have a choice to casino marketing executive can do make: compete or disappear. that will have a true, immediate and But of course, it’s not that easy. positive impact on a casino’s business.

There is no magic bullet to upgrade your The answers are as prescient as they are effective. appeal to your customers and potential customers.

And the vagaries of the different markets add to that Take a few home with you.

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BACK TO BASICS

BY BEN GORDON

alk the aisles at the latest industry trade show and you’ll be bombarded with apps and software that will deliver information on everything your guests desire… from the food they want to eat, to the entertainment they want to experience, to the games they want to play. It’s all there. Some of it is free just for the asking. Competition is fierce and everyone wants to sell you the latest and greatest marketing magic.

At least for that day.

Let’s acknowledge that there is a “race to the bottom” via increasing free play and giving away buffets—so what’s next? Bulletin: You can’t cheat the process. Every house has to be built by first laying a solid foundation for success.

Here’s the good thing—no problema. It’s amazing how many of your fellow marketing execs aren’t covering their assets—you know, like:

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focused. Make sure you get you some data!

Eliminating unnecessary expenses.“Oh sure—we’ve already

done that.” No, you haven’t. You’ve told somebody else or a whole bunch of somebody elses to do it.

Challenge your team daily with one simple question: “Is it nice or is it necessary?” Once people get focused on what they actually need to do their jobs, and the fact you’re going to hold them accountable for that, a lot of “fluff ” goes away.

Reinforcing your brand. Your brand is more

than a slogan and a logo. It’s your face to the world, and you must find ways to reinforce it throughout your organization.

As a good friend of mine, a marketing mind I respect and shall go unnamed, says, “Your front line must live it in order for your marketing team to say it.”

Using data to make decisions. It’s still shocking to see how

Having fun. This industry will chew you up and spit you out if you cannot find ways to make a 24/7/365 job fun. And if you think about it, what is more fun than a casino?

Great food and entertainment, guests with fun and quirky personalities, gambling, fun and rewarding promotions, developing consistent and fair offers to get them to come back…

If you cannot have fun working in this environment, where can you have fun?

often people simply do not take the time to see what something did before continuing to do it or to change it. With all the tools at our fingertips, with new technologies to tell us where and when guests are making their buying decisions, our ability to collect and have timely and meaningful data impact our minute-to-minute strategies has never been better or more

Ben Gordon is the owner and principal of Tribal Resource, LLC. After a successful 30-year career in advertising and marketing, he now works with tribal and casino executives in mentoring and developing tribal talent across the many disciplines of each enterprise. For more information, visit TribalResource.com.

Realizing that revenue comes from many different sources.

That’s right, it’s more than just slot machines. What are you doing to drive revenue from every direction?

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A COMMODITY OR A SERVICE?

BY MICHAEL A. MECZKA

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n competitive casino environments, the marketing team has the most difficult task of differentiating what is quickly becoming a commodity experience.

Casinos offer the same exact games with the same exact titles, with essentially the same exact pay-tables from the same exact manufacturers.

How can a casino executive motivate a patron to gamble at one casino over another?

Simply learn what the patron wants, and deliver.

Begin by implementing a program to clarify the basic four elements of determining the gaming patron’s wants and needs. The following may seem elementary, but far more casinos opt to ignore than learn about their market or their patron.

First, conduct a market profile to decide the current competitive set as defined by the patrons, not by non-gambling casino executives.

Second, segment the existing database to determine which segments are profitable and which segments are wearing out more carpeting than they are worth.

Third, conduct a competitive analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats among the patrondefined competitive set of properties.

This would include a comparative shop—actually playing at the primary competitor(s)—to discover firsthand their reinvestment, loyalty building and rewards strategies, to name a few.

Fourth, review all and outline your own unique tactics that will deliver the highest perceived values to your most valuable gaming patron segments.

Conduct qualitative immersion sessions with targeted patrons to be certain that what has been developed is what these patrons expect. This will ensure loyalty from the 20 percent who generate 80 percent of the gambling revenue. Be will-

ing to “fire” those patrons in your database who are discovered to bring little or no value.

The above four exercises will help define what the gaming patron expects and provide a path to meet those expectations. When done properly in a competitive market, a casino will develop more loyal customers and understanding from its database through word-ofmouth, and do so by simply meeting their modest expectations.

Gaming patrons do not expect to be overly rewarded. They expect to stay in play for a reasonable amount of time proportionate to their gambling budget for that specific casino gambling experience. Time and again, we hear the plea, “Let me play for a while. Let my $100 last me an hour or two. Don’t take it in the first 10 minutes!”

We also hear the lament of winning too quickly. When experiencing a relatively big win (under $1,199) in the first 10 minutes of play, patrons continue to play even though they have more than doubled or tripled their starting gambling budget. Why? “I am not ready to go home. I am here to relax and escape. Just let me play.

I’ll give you all my gambling budget, but let me play for the time allotted to be entertained.”

It is the entertainment of gambling they expect. Remember Ace Rothstein in Casino: In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose. In the end, we get it all.

Let’s keep them coming back.

Michael A. Meczka is president of Meczka Marketing/Research/Consulting, Inc. During the company’s 35-year history, it has completed numerous projects focused on improving the total gaming experience. For more information, visit mmrcinc.com.

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SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE

BY MARK ELMORE

s an ad guy, I’ve always remembered a quote by Robert Woodruff, the founder of Coca-Cola, who said, “I’ll put a Coke within an arm’s reach of desire.”

It was advertising and marketing’s job to create the desire, and distribution’s job to get the product out there, everywhere.

Today is different. In the digital age, every product is literally within arm’s reach. Pull out the mobile phone, and find anything you want, whenever you want to. And therein lies the opportunity.

Our customers are gamblers, after all. Their desire to experience the rush of playing and winning games of chance and skill can now be fulfilled by us whether they are in our establishments or not, by playing our tribal online social casino games.

We can develop deeper, more fulfilling, more rewarding relationships by keeping them connected to us. They are with us even when they are not actually with us—thus underscoring that in this day and age, successful brands (relationships) must be totally interactive and immersive; customers are loyal only when they can engage with us on their terms, whenever they wish, so that we become an always-available, pleasurable part of their lives.

Online social casino gaming can and should be an extension of your brand. It gives us new tools for player acquisition and player reactivation—more ways to increase player engagement, increase loyalty, and most importantly, generate incremental visits and increased spend at the property.

By offering our own online casino games and social gaming, current customers and potentially new customers to the property can play for fun and for virtual credits. (It’s important to note that the thrill of winning exists even if the prize is only virtual, because it satisfies our primal need to play and be rewarded.)

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The goal is twofold: Engage customers—own their “time on device” when they desire to play outside the casino, whether it be on their desktop, tablet or mobile (in fact, more than half of all social gaming is now done on mobile), understanding that they’re going to play somewhere, and the last thing you want is for your good players to start playing a competitor’s online games. And secondly, turn those online visits into property visits.

Do that by rewarding free online play with virtual credits for food and beverage, lodging, entertainment and/or other discounts that they must redeem in your property. Plus, you can tailor the redemption periods for credits won online to increase player visits on “off ” days, difficult times of the year, entertainment acts that are not selling, or to increase awareness or boost volume at new property amenities like restaurants, lounges, spa, etc.

Here’s some compelling info that’s available for public consumption: Data from Maryland Live! casino’s play-for-free site indicates that 12 percent of the online free-play database came into the casino to play for real money. Of these, 40 percent came more frequently, were worth 20 percent more per visit, and stayed 10 percent longer than other customers.

Let me repeat that: more frequency, more worth and longer stays than other customers. That is social behavior we can all get excited about.

I’ll close with a paraphrase of Mr. Woodruff ’s old maxim: “We’ll put a game within an arm’s reach of desire,” and keep the hearts and minds of our current customers and win new ones.

After all, hasn’t it always been about “time on device?”

Mark Elmore is CEO of Gaga, a full-service advertising and marketing firm creating and executing marketing and advertising solutions across all media disciplines. Prior to founding Gaga in 2007, he directed advertising and marketing for Trump Plaza and the Isle of Capri casinos. For more information, visit Gaganation.com.

SUPERCHARGING PLAYER REVENUE GROWTH

BY GARY BORDER

Here are six steps to immediately begin to increase gaming revenue:

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All casinos should invest in aggressive player development departments. To jumpstart growth and build both revenue and market share, enlist your player development staff to create player appreciation events.

Use personalized campaigns to target your inactive premium-level players and any defecting customers. It’s relatively inexpensive, and since the results can be measured in as little as a few weeks, there’s not a lot of risk. Personal touches are powerful loyalty builders, and your property can use the slower midweek space to lavish benefits on these player segments.

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Research your better players. It’s important to understand what keeps bringing them back, and it’s helpful to know what it would take to bring them in more—especially since it’s a safe bet they’re sharing their gambling dollars with your competition. You may be surprised how few of them are driven solely by comps. Sometimes they just like to feel “safe,” and the difference can be your entertainment, dining options, or even a favorite server or dealer.

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Step back and take a fresh look at your brand positioning relative to your competition. It’s important that your messaging and services be different. Your brand needs these three components to stand out:

a. Uniqueness from your competition in the market; b. Relevance to the gambler audience you want to attract; and, c. Clearly defined service and product benefits you can deliver on.

A great position defines your brand so precisely that it simultaneously defines your competition. We once ran billboards that read: • “Sure, you could earn a comp someplace else, but then you’d actually have to eat there!”

• “Nowadays every casino has a theme. Ours is gambling!”

Our client indisputably offered both the best dining and gaming differentiation in all categories. Understanding the market starts with thoroughly understanding yourself.

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Use social and mobile media to accelerate your brand exposure. Mobile apps and websites can deliver clear calls to action considerably faster than mail and more personally than advertising. Not only does it keep your customers informed about coming attractions, but the applications give players instant point redemption, event registration, offer redemptions and more.

One of our regional casinos did away with mailers entirely in dealing with their most important gamblers. The same information was delivered instantaneously through applications.

They drew higher response rates, eliminated print and postage expenses, and could be tracked instantaneously.

Granted, we tested this shift prior to making wholesale

THERE’S NO ‘I’ IN TEAM

BY JOHN MANGINI

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hen executives look at what makes a casino successful, both external and internal engagements are taken into account to identify how it will impact a property’s bottom line. The external engagements with players are critical points for all properties, since this is the source of the property’s identity and player loyalty that creates the revenue opportunities.

But how engaged will your players be if your staff is completely disengaged from the direction of your property?

To make guests feel welcome, you must first make your staff feel welcome. We have proven that an engaged workforce leads to higher customer satisfaction and higher RevPar that goes beyond the gaming revenue.

In an industry that counts on player loyalty, it makes sense to put an equal focus on employee loyalty.

One of the primary components of building an engaged workforce is a dynamic employee recognition and rewards program.

Recognized employees have been shown to work harder, stay with an organization longer and have more success than those working in an environment without a recognition program.

When designing a recognition and engagement program, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, choose a partner that fully understands organization goals and what executives are looking to accomplish with a program.

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changes. I’d recommend you proceed cautiously as to avoid disenfranchising existing players who prefer traditional mail. Also, consider the benefits of geo-fencing, which is emerging as a powerful tool to reach gamblers precisely when they’re most susceptible to your message.

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Plan mass-market events that support your position and attract new players with big purses. Tournaments targeted to slot and table players can be very effective. Events should be designed to entice the three big markets: past players, current players and prospects who gamble with your competitors.

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Prospecting ensures a future with fresh players who will counter those you may lose to competitors or strains in the economy. Fish for new players using third-party databases with specific player information. Big data enhancements can increase targeting accuracy and response, but beware of the tendency to over-reward, as creating unrealistic future expectations is ultimately damaging to the brand.

Gary Border is president of Marketing Results, the first agency devoted to database marketing and brand development solely for the casino industry. He has worked in the past for Harrah’s Entertainment, the Trump Organization and Horseshoe Gaming.

Marketing Results has more than 100 casino clients. For more information, visit marketingresults.net.

recognizes and engages employees through multiple touch points within the organization. Strategies can include anything from group recognitions for goals achieved to individual recognitions for milestones achieved.

Additionally, the program must include a peer-to-peer recognition component. Employees recognized by peers feel like they’re part of a team, with a common goal pushing them to work harder, unlike those who are not recognized by their peers. It’s your budget, and the rewards that are offered should be self-liquidating, as they are funded through the lift in the business.

As for player engagements, your loyal players want to feel valued beyond transient players, and there is no better way to demonstrate this than hosting an event that’s exclusive to your most loyal players.

Create customized reward events tailored to players’ need of feeling valued, and that personalize the experience today’s players are seeking. Shopping spree events allow multi-generational players to redeem their hard-earned points for tangible products across multiple product categories that will leave them satisfied and eager to get more involved.

Today’s players and employees want to be appreciated, want aspirational rewards and most of all, want choice.

Give them what they want, and watch your revenue and business grow year over year.

John Mangini, CRP, is marketing manager for Rymax Marketing Services/Brainstorm Logistics. Mangini is a Certified Recognition Professional with over 20 years experience in marketing for both brands and agencies whose contributions to Rymax have helped the organization see significant growth in revenue. For more information, visit rymaxinc.com.

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Tonto Apache Tribe

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Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

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MINNESOTA Class II & III Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

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JACKPOT JUNCTION CASINO HOTEL

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Upper Sioux Tribe

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Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians

Prairie Island Indian Community

MISSISSIPPI Class II & III

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

SEVEN CLANS CASINO RED LAKE

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Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

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White Earth of Chippewa Indians

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Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians

SEVEN CLANS CASINO THIEF RIVER FALLS 20595 Center St. E Thief River Falls, MN 56701 Phone: 218-681-4062 Toll Free: 800-881-0712 www.sevenclanscasino.com Casino size: 19,222 sq. ft.

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MONTANA Class II & III

Leech Lake Band of Ojiwbe

Crow Tribe

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Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

GOLDEN MOON HOTEL & CASINO

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Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of Fort Belknap

Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

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ROSEBUD CASINO

BEAR PAW CASINO

FORT BELKNAP BINGO HALL

NORTHERN WINZ CASINO

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Confederated Tribes of Salish & Kootenai

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200 Main St. Walthill, NE 68067 Mailing: PO Box 477 Walthill, NE 68067 Phone: 402-846-5545 Casino size: 280 sq. ft.

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BEST WESTERN KWATAQNUK RESORT & CASINO 49708 US Hwy. 93 East Polson, MT 59860 Phone: 406-883-3636 Toll Free: 800-882-6363 www.kwataqnuk.com Best Western Hotel (112 rooms) Casino size: 1,650 sq. ft.

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Blackfeet Nation

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Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes

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NEBRASKA Class II Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

IRON HORSE BAR & CASINO

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NATIVE STAR CASINO 1500 Industrial Pkwy.

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OHIYA CASINO 52946 Hwy. 12, Suite 2 Niobrara, NE 68760 Phone: 402-857-3860 www.ohiyacasino.com Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.

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Moapa Band of Paiute

Tesuque Pueblo Tribe

Navajo Nation

Pueblo of San Juan

Pueblo of Acoma

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CAMEL ROCK CASINO 17486A Hwy. 84/285 Sante Fe, NM 87504 Phone: 505-984-8414 Toll Free: 800-462-2635 www.camelrockcasino.com Casino size: 60,000 sq. ft.

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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.

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Pueblo of Laguna

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Mescalero Apache Tribe

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Pueblo of Sandia

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Santa Claran Hotel (124 rooms) Slots 600 Table Games 7 GM: Donovan York

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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO & HOTEL

DAKOTA MAGIC CASINO & HOTEL

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GRAND TREASURE CASINO 4418 147th Avenue NW Trenton, ND 58553 Phone: 701-572-2690 Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.

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Class II & III

PRAIRIE KNIGHTS CASINO & RESORT

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4 BEARS CASINO & LODGE

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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

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Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

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SKY DANCER MINI CASINO 1 Sailor Avenue Belcourt, ND 58316 Phone: 701-477-6438 Casino size: 2,500 sq. ft.

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Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe

Chickasaw Nation

Sac & Fox Nation

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Muscogee Creek Nation

SPIRIT LAKE CASINO & RESORT

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Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

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Eastern Shawnee Tribe

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

BORDERTOWN BINGO & CASINO

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Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

Delaware Nation

BORDERTOWN OUTPOST CASINO 69701 E. 100 Road Wyandotte, OK 74370 Phone: 918-666 6770 www.bordertownbingo.com Casino size: 3,000 sq. ft.

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Cherokee Nation

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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 Nation

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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CHEROKEE CASINO—WEST SILOAM SPRINGS

CHICKASAW TRAVEL STOP —THACKERVILLE

CHOCTAW CASINO RESORT—DURANT

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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 www.cherokeecasino.com Casino size: 27,500 sq. ft.

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CHEROKEE CASINO— TAHLEQUAH 16489 Hwy. 62 Tahlequah, OK 74464 Mailing: PO Box 179 Tahlequah, OK 74465 Phone: 918-207-3600 www.cherokeecasino.com Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.

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Cherokee Nation

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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

CHOCTAW CASINO— POCOLA

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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Cherokee Nation

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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Comanche Nation

Muscogee Creek Nation

Fort Sill Apache Tribe

Cherokee Nation

CHOCTAW CASINO— STRINGTOWN

COMANCHE STAR CASINO & SMOKE SHOP

CREEK NATION CASINO— OKMULGEE

FORT SILL APACHE CASINO

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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Muscogee Creek Nation

CHOCTAW CASINO TOO

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Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma

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Comanche Nation

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Chickasaw Nation

Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma

Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma

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Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

INDIGO SKY CASINO

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GOLDSBY GAMING CENTER

Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma

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Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma

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Osage Nation

Osage Nation

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Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

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Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma

Miami Nation of Oklahoma

Chickasaw Nation

THE STABLES CASINO

TEXOMA GAMING CENTER

RIVERMIST CASINO

SAC AND FOX CASINO— STROUD

530 H St. SE Miami, OK 74354-8224 Phone: 918-542-7884 Toll Free: 877-774-7884 www.the-stables.com Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.

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1795 Highway 70 East Kingston, OK 73439 Mailing: PO Box 141 Kingston, OK 73439 Phone: 580-564-6000 www.chickasaw.net Casino size: 5,440 Slots 365 GM: Angie Perry

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

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.

Slots 150 GM: Russell Martin Chickasaw Nation

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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STONE WOLF CASINO & GRILL

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 CASINO— SHAWNEE 42008 Westech Rd. Shawnee, OK 74804 Mailing: PO Box 1446 Shawnee, OK 74804 Phone: 405-275-4700 www.sandfcasino.com Casino size: 35,000 sq. ft.

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Chickasaw Nation

SALTCREEK CASINO 1600 Highway 81 Pocasset, OK 73079 Phone: 405-459-4000 www.saltcreekcasino.com Casino size: 33,800 sq. ft.

Slots 560 Table Games 6 GM: Justin Yahola 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.

Slots 350 GM: Jim Rider

54251 South 349th Road Pawnee, OK 74058 Phone: 918-454-7777 www.stonewolfcasino.com Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.

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THUNDERBIRD CASINO

Wichita & Affiliated Tribes

15700 E. State Hwy. 9 Norman, OK 73026-9028 Phone: 405-360-9270 Toll Free: 800-259-5825 www.astribe.com/businesses.html Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.

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SUGAR CREEK CASINO

Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma

Interstate 40 Exit 101 5304 North Broadway Avenue Hinton, OK 73047 Phone 405-542-2946 www.sugarcreekcasino.net Slots 700 Table Games 4 GM: Glen Coleman

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 www.tonkawacasino.com Casino size: 10,200 sq. ft.

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PROFILE

GCA + Multimedia Games Lasting Impressions GCA and Multimedia Games will showcase their latest and greatest at NIGA 2015, including the newest titles for the premium award-winning cabinet Platinum MPX: the Texan HDX, a premium Texas-sized cabinet standing eight feet tall; the brand new Apex V Topper featuring dual video monitors; and Cash Boom Bang, the latest out-of-revenue game for the award-winning TournEvent system.

Platinum MPX will make another appearance at NIGA this year with two themes guaranteed to leave a lasting impression with players—Dracula and Haunted House After Dark. The 40inch monitor, custom surround-sound with integrated sound chair and Earthquake Shakers will bring these themes to life.

They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and Multimedia is proving that adage true with its latest premium cabinet, the Texan HDX, an oversized cabinet that can showcase any of Multimedia’s standard video themes. The giant cabinet stands nearly eight feet tall, with monitors measuring 42 inches.

The Apex V Topper will have its first-ever showing at NIGA this year, showcased on a bank of new themes such as Artemis, Wild Things and Full Service. This new topper features a unique 58 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT G AMING 2015

dual 15-inch video screen setup.

The High Rise Games series will continue to stand tall this year with four new themes—Queen of Diamonds, Pirates Skull & Bones, the Money Man Big Cash Spin and Smokin’ Hot Diamonds. Queen of Diamonds offers a nine-reel, 32-line theme featuring the never-before-seen Jackpot Jump, where progressive prizes “jump” by one or two tiers if the Jackpot Jump card or Queen of Diamonds is uncovered.

Back and better than ever is the award-winning TournEvent slot tournament system, complete with a wireless tablet option, the latest out-of-revenue game and new signage. Cash Boom Bang with 4 Reel Frenzy will take slot tournaments to the next level, as tournament screens explode into four sets of reels once a bomb appears. Making a cameo as well will be the latest sign option for TournEvent, a rotating 55-inch monitor with lighted accent dividers and the ability to be featured on new bank configurations.

From GCA’s cash access solutions, the CXC Lite, CXC 4.0 and JackpotXchange kiosks will be showcased, as well as the cage cash access solution Cash Club, the XView reporting tool, NEWave’s anti-money laundering software and Everi’s product suite for real-money online gaming.

For more information, stop by booth No. 1121 or visit mm-games.com.

Chickasaw Nation

OREGON

Coquille Indian Tribe

TRADING POST CASINO

WINSTAR WORLD CASINO

Class II & III

THE MILL CASINO HOTEL

291 Agency Road Pawnee, OK 74058 Phone: 918-762-4466 Casino size: 3,500 sq. ft.

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777 Casino Ave., Interstate 35 Thackerville, OK 73459 Phone: 580-276-4229 Toll Free: 800-622-6317 www.winstarworldcasino.com Casino size: 249,000 sq. ft.

WinStar World Hotel (395 rooms) Slots 7,500 Table Games 98 Poker Tables 45 Bingo 800 seats GM: Wayne McCormick

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

3201 N. Tremont Ave. North Bend, OR 97459-3062 Phone: 541-756-8800 Toll Free: 800-953-4800 www.themillcasino.com Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.

The Mill Casino Hotel (98 rooms) Slots 720 Table Games 10 GM: Terri Porcaro

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.

Inn at Treasure Valley (59 rooms) Slots 400 Table Games 4 GM: Christina DeMoss

20 White Eagle Drive Ponca City, OK 74601-8310 Phone: 580-762-5444 Casino Size: 20,000 sq.ft.

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Chinook Winds Resort (227 rooms) Slots 1,116 Table Games 23 Bingo 400 seats GM: Mike Fisher Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs

INDIAN HEAD CASINO

Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma

TWO RIVERS CASINO

CHINOOK WINDS CASINO RESORT

Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma

WYANDOTTE NATION CASINO 100 Jackpot Place Wyandotte, OK 74370 Phone: 918-678-4946 Toll Free: 866-447-4946 www.wyandottecasinos.com Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.

Slots 500 Table Games 5 GM: Gary Johnson

3236 US Highway 26 Warm Springs, OR 97761 Phone: 541-460-7777 www.indianheadgaming.com Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.

Gaming Machines 500 GM: Ken Billingsley Klamath Tribe

KLA-MO-YA CASINO 34333 Hwy. 97 North Chiloquin, OR 97624-8747 Phone: 541-783-7529 Toll Free: 888-552-6692 www.klamoyacasino.com Casino size: 18,000 sq. ft.

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Burns Paiute Tribe

OLD CAMP CASINO 2205 W. Monroe St. Burns, OR 97720-1950 Phone: 541-573-1500 www.oldcampcasino.com Casino size: 17,000 sq. ft.

Slots 110 Interim GM: Pamela Sherbarn Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians

SEVEN FEATHERS CASINO RESORT 146 Chief Miwaleta Ln. Canyonville, OR 97417-9700 Phone: 541-839-1111 www.sevenfeathers.com Casino size: 68,441 sq. ft.

Seven Feathers Hotel (286 rooms plus 12 suites) Slots 1,100 Table Games 20 Bingo 320 seats 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 www.spiritmountain.com Casino size: 193,200 sq. ft.

Spirit Mountain Lodge (254 rooms) Slots 2,000 Table Games 18 COO: Stan Dillon Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians

THREE RIVERS CASINO & HOTEL 5647 Hwy. 126 Florence, OR 97439 Phone: 541-997-7529 www.threeriverscasino.com Casino size: 90,000 sq. ft.

Three Rivers Hotel (93 rooms) Slots 700 Table Games 11 Bingo 500 seats COO: Mike Rose

PROFILE

Novomatic Americas Moving Into High Gear Following an extremely encouraging debut showing at NIGA 2014, Novomatic Americas Sales LLC, the dedicated U.S. arm of Austrian-based gaming giant Novomatic, is ready to move into high gear at NIGA 2015.

With a clear emphasis on tribal government gaming, Novomatic Americas, under the leadership of its president, industry veteran Rick Meitzler, is an integrated global gaming company specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and sales of electronic gaming machines and advanced technology products. The company already has recruited highly experienced gaming industry professionals to its team and has rapidly expanded over the past 12 months.

Leading the NIGA product lineup will be the brand new Dominator Curve—a dramatic evolution of the hugely successful Dominator, which had its world premiere at ICE Totally Gaming in London.

The Dominator Curve features all the ergonomic and design elements of its predecessor plus the advantages of its unique upright 40-inch full HD curved touch-screen. The player position in the focal point of the curved screen guarantees maximum-impact gaming with sophisticated graphics and sound.

The Dominator Curve display at NIGA will feature a wide

range of single games and multi-game mixes supported on the server-based-ready platform Novo Line Interactive, blending optimized usability and top-quality design with great looks.

Alongside the Dominator will be the product that was a standout hit at both G2E in Las Vegas and ICE in London—the Novostar V.I.P. II. With an impressively large 50-inch screen, it’s widely regarded as the best slant-top gaming device on the market today.

Electronic multi-player gaming will be represented by Novo Unity II, featuring a live Novo TouchBet Blackjack plus virtual (“flying”) baccarat, poker, sic bo and roulette games to wow the crowds.

In all, NIGA will prove to all tribal government gaming attendees that Novomatic Americas is here, in force and very definitely to stay. Meitzler summed it up: “Novomatic Americas is now officially on the move. Starting with NIGA we will bring our product offerings, backed up by our top-class service, to a market that has already expressed its willingness to accept us.”

For more information, visit novomatic.com or contact Rick Meitzler at 224-802-2974.

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Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation

WILDHORSE RESORT & CASINO 72777 Hwy. 331 Pendleton, OR 97801-3379 Phone: 541-278-2274 www.wildhorseresort.com Casino size: 113,000 sq. ft.

Wildhorse Hotel (100 rooms) RV Park (100) Slots 1,200 Table Games 12 Bingo 400 seats GM: Allen Tovey

Lower Brule Sioux Tribe

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Spokane Tribe

Squaxin Island Tribe

GOLDEN BUFFALO CASINO RESORT

TURTLE CREEK CROSSING CASINO

CHEWELAH CASINO

LITTLE CREEK CASINO

321 Sitting Bull St. Lower Brule, SD 57548 Mailing: PO Box 204 Lower Brule, SD 57548-0204 Phone: 605-473-5577 www.lbst.org Casino size: 9,000 sq. ft.

Golden Buffalo Hotel (38 rooms) Slots 205 Bingo 100 seats GM: Darrell Hermin

28281 US Highway 18 Mission, SD 57555 Phone: 605-856-2329 Slots 26 GM: Trent Poignee

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 www.chewelahcasino.com Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.

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91 W. State Route 108 Shelton, WA 98584 Phone: 360-427-7711 Toll Free: 800-667-7711 www.little-creek.com Casino size: 21,000 sq. ft.

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KICKAPOO LUCKY EAGLE CASINO

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

LUCKY DOG 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 www.luckyeagletexas.com Casino size: 15,000 sq. ft.

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COULEE DAM CASINO

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

SOUTH DAKOTA Class II & III Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate

DAKOTA CONNECTION CASINO & TRAVEL PLAZA 46102 SD Highway 10 Sisseton, SD 57262 Phone: 605-698-4273 www.dakotaconnection.com Casino size: 20,000 sq. ft.

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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 www.grandrivercasino.com Casino size: 40,000 sq. ft.

Grand River Resort (40 rooms) Slots 250 Table Games 5 GM: Ivan White Mountain

TEXAS Class II Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas

WASHINGTON Class II & III

DAKOTA SIOUX CASINO

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

16415 Sioux Conifer Rd. Watertown, SD 57201-7321 Phone: 605-882-2051 Toll Free: 800-658-4717 www.dakotasioux.com Casino size: 8,730 sq. ft.

Hotel (92 rooms) Slots 364 Table Games 1 GM: John Rondell

LODE STAR CASINO & HOTEL

7 CEDARS CASINO

Oglala Sioux Tribe

EAST WIND CASINO US Highway 18 Martin, SD 57551 Phone: 605-685-1140 Slots 100 GM: Kevin Lien 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 www.fortrandall.com Casino size: 38,092 sq. ft.

Fort Randall Hotel (56 rooms) Slots 276 Table Games 10 Bingo 250 seats GM: Ward Zephier

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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 www.prairiewindcasino.com Casino size: 30,000 sq. ft.

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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 www.royalrivercasino.com Casino size: 17,000 sq. ft.

Royal River Motel (120 rooms) Slots 352 Table Games 10 GM: Steven Christenson

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270756 Hwy. 101 Sequim, WA 98382-7677 Phone: 360-683-7777 Toll Free: 800-458-2597 www.7cedarscasino.com Casino size: 63,000 sq. ft.

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515 Birch Stret Coulee Dam, WA 99116-1324 Phone: 509-633-0766 www.colvillecasinos.com Casino size: 5,000 sq. ft.

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Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation

CLEARWATER CASINO

LUCKY EAGLE CASINO

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MILL BAY CASINO

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

3438 Stoluckquamish Ln. Arlington, WA 98223 Phone: 360-474-9740 www.angelofthewinds.com Casino size: 112,000 sq. ft.

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ELWHA RIVER CASINO

Puyallup Tribe of Indians

Puyallup Tribe of Indians

BJ’s BINGO

EMERALD QUEEN CASINO I-5

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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 www.snocasino.com Casino size: 187,000 sq. ft.

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Suquamish Tribe

Stillaguamish Tribe

ANGEL OF THE WINDS CASINO

Skokomish Tribe

631 Stratton Rd. Port Angeles, WA 98363 Phone: 360-452-3005 www.elwharivercasino.com Casino size: 7,000 sq. ft.

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2024 E. 29th St. Tacoma, WA 98404 Phone: 253-594-7777 Toll Free 888-831-7655 www.emeraldqueen.com Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.

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EMERALD QUEEN HOTEL & CASINO 5700 Pacific Hwy. East Fife, WA 98424 Phone: 253-922-2000 www.emeraldqueen.com Emerald Queen Hotel (140 rooms) Casino size: 33,000 sq. ft.

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MUCKLESHOOT CASINO 2402 Auburn Way South Auburn, WA 98002-6370 Phone: 253-804-4444 Toll Free: 800-804-4944 www.muckleshootcasino.com Casino size: 328,000 sq. ft.

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Nooksack Tribe

NISQUALLY RED WIND CASINO

NOOKSACK RIVER CASINO

12819 Yelm Hwy. Southeast Olympia, WA 98513-9111 Phone: 360-412-5000 Toll Free: 866-946-2444 www.redwindcasino.com Casino size: 95,000 sq. ft.

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Nooksack Indian Tribe

Kalispel Tribe

NOOKSACK NORTHWOOD CASINO

NORTHERN QUEST RESORT & CASINO

9750 Northwood Rd. Lynden, WA 98264 Phone: 360-734-5101 Toll Free: 877-777-9847 www.northwood-casino.com Casino size: 30,000 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 www.colvillecasinos.com Casino size: 25,000 sq. ft.

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Tulalip Tribes

Shoalwater Bay Tribe

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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 www.shoalwaterbaycasino.com Casino size: 12,000 sq. ft.

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Tulalip, WA 98271 Phone: 360-651-1111 Toll Free: 888-272 -1111 www.qcccasino.com Casino size: 52,000 sq. ft.

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Lummi Nation

Quinault Tribe

SILVER REEF CASINO

QUINAULT BEACH RESORT & CASINO Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe

THE POINT CASINO 7989 Salish Lane Northeast Kingston, WA 98346 Phone: 360-297-0070 Toll Free: 866-547-6468 www.the-point-casino.com Casino size: 52,400 sq. ft.

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4876 Haxton Way Ferndale, WA 98248 Phone: 360-383-0777 Toll Free: 866-383-0777 www.silverreefcasino.com Casino size: 50,000 sq. ft.

Hotel (105 rooms) Slots 1,200 Table Games 20 GM: Harlan G. Oppenheim

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Red Square Gaming The ad agency for smart casino brands Red Square Gaming is a full-service advertising agency focused on casino brands. Its specialization and energy bring clients a uniquely deep set of skills that the typical agency cannot. Red Square Gaming combines strategic thinking, imagination, logistics and technology to deliver creative intelligence to help clients dominate the competition.

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Tulalip Tribe

SKAGIT VALLEY CASINO RESORT

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5984 N. Darrk Lane Bow, WA 98232 Phone: 360-724-7777 Toll Free: 877-275-2448 www.theskagit.com Casino size: 64,000 sq. ft.

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SNOQUALMIE CASINO 37500 Southeast North Bend Way Snoqualmie, WA 98065 Phone: 425-888-1234 www.snocasino.com Casino size: 187,602 Gaming Machines 1,700 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 www.swinomishcasino.com Casino size: 73,000 sq. ft.

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Tulalip, WA 98271 Phone: 360-651-1111 Toll Free: 888-272-1111 www.tulalipcasino.com Casino size: 22,000 sq. ft.

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Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin

YAKAMA NATION LEGENDS CASINO

CRYSTAL PALACE BINGO HALL

580 Fort Rd. Toppenish, WA 98948 Phone: 509-865-8800 Toll Free: 877-7COME11 www.yakamalegends.com Casino size: 70,000 sq. ft.

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Tulalip Tribe

GRINDSTONE CREEK CASINO

TULALIP RESORT CASINO 10200 Quil Ceda Boulevard Tulalip, WA 98172-7413 Phone: 360-716-6000 www.tulalipresort.com Casino size: 222,000 sq. ft.

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TWO RIVERS CASINO & RESORT 6828 B Hwy. 25 South Davenport, WA 99122-9300 Phone: 509-722-4000 Toll Free: 800-722-4031 www.two-rivers-casino.com Casino size: 10,000 sq. ft.

Hotel (101 rooms) Slots 150 Table Games 3 GM: Richard Garry

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

13394 West Trepania Road Hayward, WI 54843 Phone: 715-634-2430 www.lcocasino.com Slots 88 GM: Kimm Martinsen

WISCONSIN Class II & III

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin

HIGHWAY 54 CASINO

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 www.badriver.com Casino size: 74,000 sq. ft.

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Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

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Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin

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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 www.lakeofthetorches.com Casino size: 56,000 sq. ft.

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ONEIDA ONE-STOP PACKERLAND 3120 South Packerland Drive Green Bay, WI 54313 Phone: 920-496-5601 www.oneidacasino.net Casino size: 14,905 sq. ft.

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POTAWATOMI HOTEL CASINO 1721 W Canal St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 Phone: 414-645-6888 Toll Free: 800-729-7244 www.paysbig.com Casino size: 780,000 sq. ft.

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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.

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Northern Arapaho Tribe

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Eastern Shoshone Tribe

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White Bear Indian Community

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AMERICA’S SUCCESS STORY Indian gaming fuels tribal economic development across the U.S. BY ERNEST STEVENS, JR. he National Indian Gaming Association was established 30 years ago by a small visionary group of tribal leaders. At the time—December 1985—contemporary Indian gaming had been active for more than 15 years, and this small group of tribal leaders saw the need to face legal and legislative challenges to protect the ability of tribal governments to use gaming to generate revenue to meet the severe unmet needs of native communities.

NIGA filled this void, providing Indian Country with a united voice in Washington, D.C. NIGA united behind the mission of protecting tribal sovereignty and promoting Indian gaming as a way to develop tribal economies. Our purpose was to educate legislators and the public about Indian gaming.

Back in the early 1980s, I was a kid playing basketball in our only gymnasium. I remember being frustrated when the court was closed to prepare for bingo games. I just wanted to play basketball, and I resented all these strange folks filling up our gym. Little did I know then that those bingo games were paying for the heat and lights so that I could play basketball.

Fulfilling the vision of tribal leaders that launched contemporary Indian gaming, our gaming revenues today fund tribal government programs that provide child care, elder care, language, culture, history programs, improved health care, energy assistance and much more. The early goal of paying the bills for essential utilities has grown much bigger.

This same story is true for so many tribes whose gaming operations began from these humble means. Because of Indian gaming, many native youth now have stateof-the-art gymnasiums, fitness centers, recreational and other programs to ensure their total well-being. These are just some of the ways that Indian gaming is working to reshape native communities nationwide.

Today, 245 tribal governments operate 445 gaming facilities in 28 states. Indian gaming revenues have reached $28.6 billion annually. This economic activity resonates through tribal communities and those of our neigh-

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bors, bringing economic success and prosperity to areas that had faced economic hardship.

For many tribes, Indian gaming is first and foremost about jobs. Indian gaming delivered over 665,000 direct and indirect American jobs in 2013 to both Indian and non-Indian employees. These jobs come with health insurance, dental and vision plans, retirement and life insurance—benefits that were unheard of in Indian Country prior to gaming. Indian gaming continues to be an American success story.

For years, tribes with gaming have operated ancillary businesses like hotels, restaurants, golf and gift shops and other gamingrelated endeavors. Today, more tribes are investing and opening unrelated native ventures that provide all forms of services to Indian Country.

Economic development with and beyond gaming continues to be a major focus of our agenda. From something as simple as a local reservation grocery store to more complex business ventures related to improving community technology, manufacturing and agricultural production, these efforts are being undertaken to ensure the long-term economic security of tribal nations.

The aspect of this activity that I’m most excited about is it that it’s bringing our people home. Indian gaming is helping shape our next generation of native leaders.

Gaming revenues are providing native youth with educational opportunities that were not previously available. After generations without a trained work force, Indian Country now has a talented pool of educated native professionals who are returning home to offer their expertise and contribute to the future success of their communities. This is true self-determination.

Over the past 30 years, tribes have used gaming dollars to improve tribal infrastructure, including the construction of roads, hospitals, schools, elder homes, police buildings and water systems. This development comes long overdue. For decades, our communities suffered with outdated and crumbling schools, hospitals and basic government service centers that threatened the

health and physical safety of our people and visitors. Thanks in part to Indian gaming, many tribes now offer services in facilities that meet the growing needs of our communities.

Just recently, the Mississippi Choctaw Band of Indians held a grand opening for their new health center. The Choctaw Health Department serves more than 10,000 tribal citizens along with many more eligible Indians living in the area. The new $55 million facility now offers a full range of services that includes dental, vision, emergency medical services, physical therapy, a women’s wellness center and now, traditional native methods of healing.

As we come together for our annual trade show, we are excited about the new technology that will be on display and the networking and the business interactions that will take place on the trade-show floor.

The tribal membership meeting is another vital component of the trade show.

Tribal leaders will put their minds together to evaluate local, state, regional and national issues to help develop NIGA’s legislative agenda for the coming year. Protection of all aspects of tribal sovereignty in this Congress and administration will be the main focus of the discussion.

It’s been decades since our most visionary tribal leaders launched the first Indian gaming operation to provide tribal governments with a means of achieving economic self-sufficiency. NIGA was established to protect this vision.

For 30 years, NIGA has stood strong, providing a unified voice to fulfill the mission of protecting and strengthening tribal sovereignty and the ability of tribes to use gaming as a means to provide for our people. Tribal government gaming has provided tremendous impacts for natives and non-natives alike.

We are proud of our legacy and all that it means to Indian Country today and for the next seven generations.

Ernest Stevens, Jr. is chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association.