14th Annual Aquinnah Wampanoag PowWow. Aquinnah Circle.
Posted by Heather C. Rynd on Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe is moving forward with plans for a long-awaited casino on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
With the Chickasaw Nation, a major player in the gaming industry, as a partner, the tribe is envisioning a 10,000-square-foot Class II facility that will put 100 people to work, The Vineyard Gazette. Plans call for an initial investment of $12 million in the project, the paper said. The paper gleamed the information from tribal citizens who attended a membership meeting last month. The details are the first to emerge since the partnership with the Chickasaw-owned Global Gaming Solutions was announced late last month. But officials in the town of Aquinnah, where the casino is to be located, say they have been kept in the dark. During a public meeting last week, the board of selectmen approved the issuance of a letter to the tribe in hopes of working together in some fashion. “We don’t know anything,” selectman Jim Newman said at the September 5 meeting, The Gazette reported. “There’s been no communication. We’re hoping that we can sit down with them and find out what’s going on, so that we can find out what we can do to help, with the idea that we want to cooperate with them.”