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December 11, 2006

Q&A with gaming CEO for Pascua Yaqui Tribe

The Arizona Daily Star sat down with Wendell Long, the gaming CEO for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.

Long, 43, is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the first American Indian to head the Yaqui gaming enterprise.

Long said he hopes to be the last non-Yaqui to hold the position. Half of the casino employees are Indian.

"It's important and our responsibility to move as many tribal members into other posts — as managers and then as CEO. My job isn't complete until we have someone from the tribe sitting in that CEO seat, and I want to stay until that's completed," he told the paper.

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