The Osage Nation is opening a new casino and hotel in Oklahoma in just a few short weeks.
The tribe invested $160 million into the new facility, located near downtown Tulsa. It features a 247,000 square-foot gaming floor with 1,500 electronic games and 16 table games, a 141-room hotel with event space, a 4,000 square-foot brewery, a new parking garage, along with a 6,000-square-foot outdoor entertainment area with a 120,000-gallon pool, a fire pit, a poolside bar and a 15-person hot tub. “We are the closest casino to downtown and you see the expansion of all the construction of all of everything that has happened downtown. We really feel like we are a part of that," Osage Casinos CEO Byron Bighorse told KTUL. The opening ceremony takes place at 12pm on August 29, according to a post on Facebook. The casino in Tulsa is one of seven gaming facilities on the Osage Nation. The Tulsa site was placed in trust during the Obama administration after a federal appeals court said the tribe's reservation was diminished by an act of Congress. Read More on the Story: