South Dakota tribes benefit from expansion of Class III games

Thursday, June 25, 2015  

A view of the Royal River Casino in Flandreau, South Dakota. Photo from RRC

Tribes in South Dakota will be able to offer additional Class III games that become legal in the state on July 1.

In November, voters approved Constitutional Amendment Q, an initiative to authorize keno, craps and roulette, by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent. Support was much higher in Indian Country -- 69 percent on the Pine Ridge Reservation and 63 percent on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.

Non-Indian facilities in Deadwood. can start offering keno, craps and roulette next week. Under their Class III gaming compacts and pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribes are entitled to the same games.

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