MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians open gaming facility in Alabama

Wednesday, November 6, 2013  

The MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians has opened a gaming facility in Alabama.

The facility offers 50 electronic gaming machines, ALLive reported. It opened on Sunday despite the tribe's lack of federal recognition.

“In order for us to have this gaming, we need to be a federally recognized people,” tribal member Larry Poston said at a council meeting on Tuesday, ALLive reported.

The tribe was denied recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs process.

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