Arizona's tribes shared $23.5 million in gaming revenues with the state during the second quarter of the year.

Of the amount, $11.7 million went to education, $5.9 million went to emergency-room service, $2.1 million went to the Arizona Department of Gaming and $1.7 million went to the Wildlife Conservation Fund. "Tribal gaming operations continue to generate reliable funding for valuable Arizona programs," Mark Brnovich, the gaming department director, told The Arizona Republic.

Arizona's tribes have been a decline in revenues over the past year although they seem to be recovering from the double-digit drop seen in the last quarter of 2008.

"I'm just glad that we're in a holding pattern, no longer in a declining trend," Sheila Morago, the executive director of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association, told the paper.

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