The Arizona Daily Star sat down with Wendell Long, the gaming CEO for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.
Long, 43, is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the first American Indian to head the Yaqui gaming enterprise. Long said he hopes to be the last non-Yaqui to hold the position. Half of the casino employees are Indian. "It's important and our responsibility to move as many tribal members into other posts — as managers and then as CEO. My job isn't complete until we have someone from the tribe sitting in that CEO seat, and I want to stay until that's completed," he told the paper. Get the Story: