The Seneca Nation of New York could benefit from a change in off-reservation gaming policy at the Bureau of Indian Affairs
The tribe owns 63 acres in the Catskills. The area is close to New York City but nearly 300 miles from the tribe's nearest territory.
The distance alone would have led the BIA to reject the casino under a 2008 "guidance memo" that makes it nearly impossible for tribes to acquire land away from existing reservations. But the Obama administration has rescinded the memo, paving the way for consideration of off-reservation gaming.
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Nation To Develop Catskills Casino
(The Jamestown Post-Journal 7/19)
Seneca Nation Pursues Catskills Casino (Indian Country Today 7/18)
Bush Administration Off-Reservation Gaming Policy:
Guidance on taking off-reservation land into
trust for gaming purposes (January 3, 2008)
Related Stories:
Seneca Nation reaffirms plan for
Catskills off-reservation casino (7/15)
Tribes
hopeful with reversal on off-reservation gaming policy (6/15)
Echo Hawk pulls controversial
off-reservation gaming memo (6/14)
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starts new year with off-reservation gaming policy (1/7)
Rejected tribes want casinos too far from
reservations (1/7)
Casino Stalker | New York
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