{"id":3558,"date":"2024-10-03T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:37:28","slug":"alaska-tribe-clears-land-in-anchorage-for-states-second-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/alaska-tribe-clears-land-in-anchorage-for-states-second-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Tribe Clears Land in Anchorage for State\u2019s Second Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaska\u2019s Eklutna Tribe<\/a> has begun clearing land for what it hopes will become Alaska\u2019s second casino, The Anchorage Daily News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Leggett, president of the Native Village of Eklutna, said the tribe still faces hurdles in its long quest to open a modest gaming facility, but it has also never been closer. (Image: Chris Ared\/CIRI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tribe has long sought to build an electronic bingo hall on its land 20 miles outside of Anchorage. But, for years, it\u2019s been hamstrung by Alaska laws that limited the sovereignty \u2013 and, by extension, gaming rights \u2014 of indigenous people.<\/p>\n

Now the tribe hopes to benefit from a February 2024 DOJ opinion that granted more authority for Alaska Natives over their lands.<\/p>\n

Modest Facility \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In May, the federal National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) approved the Eklutna\u2019s casino plan<\/a>, a reversal of its position under the Trump administration. Now the tribe is waiting for signoff from the US Interior Department\u2019s Bureau of Indian Affairs.<\/p>\n

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We have started clearing a small amount of land on our proposed project site, however there are still hurdles before us in our decades-long journey to open a potential gaming hall,\u201d Aaron Leggett, president of the Native Village of Eklutna, told The Morning Post<\/em> of the planned \u201cmodest\u201d gaming facility. \u201cWe want to work with all stakeholders to make this potential facility a positive project in every possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anthony Marnell, CEO of Las Vegas-based casino development firm Marnell Companies, the tribe\u2019s partner on the project, said the casino would open with 350 to 500 class II gaming machines, but could expand over time, eventually hosting as many as 700 machines.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty Diminished <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alaska Natives like the Eklutna have a different legal status to their counterparts in other parts of the US. That\u2019s largely because of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971.<\/p>\n

The Act awarded the tribes land and financial compensation while also recharacterizing them as private corporations as opposed to sovereign nations with sovereign powers.<\/p>\n

Under 1988\u2019s Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), a tribe must exercise governmental authority over its land to have gaming rights there, and the federal government\u2019s previous position was that the Eklutna did not. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alaska\u2019s only existing electronic bingo hall is owned by the Metlakatla Indian Community, which declined to sign on to ANCSA.<\/p>\n

Game-Changer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This all changed when US Interior Department Solicitor Robert Anderson determined that tribal authority should apply to land allotted to Alaska Natives provided it was not \u201cgeographically removed from the tribal community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leggett says he hopes to hear from the Bureau of Indian Affairs by December.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a small tribe, we have struggled for decades to develop a strong tribal economy to help support our people and be an even more supportive community partner,\u201d he said. \u201cOur proposed gaming facility presents an important opportunity to reach these goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alaska\u2019s Eklutna Tribe has begun clearing land for what it hopes will become Alaska\u2019s second casino, The Anchorage Daily News reports. Aaron Leggett, president of the Native Village of Eklutna, said the tribe still faces hurdles in its long quest to open a modest gaming facility, but it has also never been closer. (Image: Chris…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/restaurace-pohoda.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}