The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of
Potawatomi Indians of Michigan, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe, is getting ready to open its first casino.
Chairman D.K. Sprague has spent most of his life in his tribe's community. He hopes the Gun Lake Casino will bring back others who moved away.
“Folks have left the area for jobs, they moved to the big cities, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo,” Sprague told WMMT-TV. “We just want these people to come back and work for the tribe, or work for the casino.”
The tribe plans to use gaming revenues for housing and other services.
“It just means we are going to be self-sufficient,” housing director Melissa Brown told WMMT-TV. “We are no longer going to be reliant on the federal government for the needs we have.”
The casino will open in mid-February.
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