The Arizona Daily Star sat down with Wendell Long, the gaming CEO for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.
Long, 43, is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the first American Indian to head the Yaqui gaming enterprise.
Long said he hopes to be the last non-Yaqui to hold the position. Half of the casino employees are Indian.
"It's important and our responsibility to move as many tribal members into other posts — as managers and then as CEO. My job isn't complete until we have someone from the tribe sitting in that CEO seat, and I want to stay until that's completed," he told the paper.
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(The Arizona Daily Star 12/9)
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Q&A with gaming CEO for Pascua Yaqui Tribe
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