South Dakota tribes seek new gaming compacts

Tuesday, February 20, 2007  

South Dakota tribes want to negotiate new gaming compacts that will allow them to operate more slot machines.

Currently, the eight tribes are each limited to 250 machines. Meanwhile, the non-Indian gaming industry has added more than 8,000 machines over the past decade.

"Our customers come from Wyoming and Nebraska. We're bringing people into South Dakota," John Yellowbird Steele, the chairman of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, told the Associated Press. :We're actually helping the economy of South Dakota."

The tribes are meeting in Rapid City this week for an economic development conference.

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