![]() ![]() “We’ve proven ourselves when it comes to gaming and hospitality,” says Robert McGhee, vice chairman of the Poarch Band, which operates three hotel casinos in Alabama and more than a dozen non-gambling hotels in the Southeast and Caribbean Islands.Īmerican Indian tribes are parlaying skills and experience gained through 30 years of operating tribal government casinos on Indian lands with a growing list of commercial casino ventures in the United States and overseas. When MGM Resorts International built a $1 billion hotel casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, near the border with Connecticut, it made perfect sense for the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes to pursue a competing project in East Windsor.Īnd when the Poarch Band of Creek Indians sought an investment opportunity to capitalize on its casino resort and entertainment interests in Alabama, the tribe’s Wind Creek Hospitality invested $1.3 billion in Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. When the state of Arkansas expressed an interest in legalized casino gambling, it came as no surprise that the Quapaw and Cherokee Indian Nations of neighboring Oklahoma would finance the ballot initiative that got the industry up and going.
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