The gaming floor at the Lac Vieux Desert Resort and Casino. Photo from Facebook
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The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians in Michigan is interested in an off-reservation casino, The Ironwood Daily Globe reports.
The tribe has signed a letter of intent with the owners of the Indianhead Mountain Ski Resort. Plans call for the construction of a casino and a hotel at the site, the paper reported.
"It's very early in the process to say much more than that," Barry Bolich, a manager at the resort, told the paper.
The tribe would reportedly need to purchase part of the site and start the land-into-trust process. Approval from the state governor would presumably be required under the two-part determination provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
The tribe already operates the
Lac Vieux Desert Resort and Casino. The ski resort site is about 46 miles away.
A public meeting will be held at the ski resort on October 22 to discuss the idea.
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(The Ironwood Daily Globe 10/3)