Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) said the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians of Wisconsin deserves an off-reservation casino in New York.
Schumer is asking Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to approve the tribe's land-into-trust application. The tribe wants to open a casino in the Catskills, a region about 90 minutes north of New York City. Stockbridge-Munsee ancestors lived in New York before being removed to Wisconsin. Get the Story: