{"id":19316,"date":"2021-12-17T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=19316"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:11:27","slug":"native-sun-news-today-editorial-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-indian-gaming-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/17\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-indian-gaming-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today Editorial: The ups and downs of the Indian gaming industry"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/17\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-indian-gaming-industry\/prairiewindcasino\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19321\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" data-attachment-id=\"19321\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/17\/native-sun-news-today-editorial-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-indian-gaming-industry\/prairiewindcasino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/prairiewindcasino.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Prairie Wind Casino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Prairie Wind Casino is owned and operated by the Ogala Sioux Tribe in Oglala, South Dakota. Photo: Prairie Wind Casino&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/prairiewindcasino-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/prairiewindcasino.jpg\" alt=\"Prairie Wind Casino\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-19321\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> The Prairie Wind Casino is owned and operated by the Ogala Sioux Tribe in Oglala, South Dakota. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.prairiewindcasino.com>Prairie Wind Casino<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">The ups and downs of Indian casinos<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Friday, December 17, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Native Sun News Editorial Board<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThere are some Tribes that have nearly broken the umbilical cord that has kept them tied to the total control of the federal government by virtue of their lucrative gaming casinos.<p><\/p>\r\nTheir casinos are lucrative because of geography. They are located near large urban areas where there are plenty of people living who are willing to gamble in their casinos.<p><\/p>\r\nOther Tribes are not so lucky. They are located in remote areas where the populations are small and they will never be able to draw the large crowds to their casinos.<p><\/p>\r\nThe Shakopee Tribe in Minnesota is one example. They are located near the metropolitan area of St. Paul and Minneapolis. As a result they are one of the wealthiest Tribes in America. There are many Tribes with the similar luck of the draw because of their locations. <p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nThe Prairie Wind Casino located on the Pine Ridge Reservation is fairly remote. It is located about 20 miles west of the farming town of Oelrichs. It draws most of its customers from Rapid City and Hot Springs in South Dakota  and Chadron in Nebraska. <p><\/p>\r\nRapid City is also located near the gaming city of Deadwood. When South Dakota legalized gambling in Deadwood and in other South Dakota communities it did much to cut into the revenues of the Indian casinos. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn order to draw customers away from Deadwood and to Pine Ridge the Tribe needs to come up with brilliant ideas that would entice the customers to visit their casino in lieu of Deadwood. It\u2019s a tough sell.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n <div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Find news, opinion and more on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\" rel=\"noopener\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<EM>Contact the Editorial Board of Native Sun News Today at editor@nativesunnews.today<\/em>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The competition is stiff in the gaming business and it is not going to get any easier for tribes.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67,9],"tags":[2,69,98],"class_list":["post-19316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-gaming","category-opinion","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-nebraska","tag-south-dakota","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-51y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/prairiewindcasino.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}