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Maine tribes hopeful for casino as lawmakers examine new study


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The Oxford Casino, a non-Indian gaming facility, in Maine. Photo from Oxford Casino

Tribal leaders in Maine remain hopeful they will be able to open a casino after a new study said there was room for an expansion.

Tribes have been pushing for a casino for years only to see non-Indian operators win approval from state lawmakers. But the study from WhiteSand Gaming suggests a new facility in the northern part of the state could be set aside for tribes.

“We will eventually get a casino,” Clayton Cleaves, the chief of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, told the Associated Press.

Tribes in the state are "subject to distinct disadvantages when exploring the potential for gaming to act as an economic engine for tribal economic development and self-sufficiency" because they can't follow the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the report noted.

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Maine’s Indian tribes draw hope from casino study (AP 9/10)
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