The Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan. Photo from Facebook
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians shares gaming revenues with local communities in Michigan but an impasse prevented the distribution of a $4.4 million payment. After four meetings, the Pokagon-New Buffalo Area Local Revenue Sharing Board finally reached agreement, The Harbor County News reported. At issue were law enforcement costs associated with the Four Winds Casino. "For the last two years, there has been nothing but arguing, bickering and fighting over a gift," a local resident told the board at a meeting on Tuesday, the paper said. As of 2014, the tribe shared nearly $26.9 million with local communities, according to a September 2015 report from the Michigan Gaming Control Board. The 2015 payment was about $4.4 million and is not included in the state's recent report. The tribe operates three casinos in Michigan and is looking to build another one in Indiana as part of a pending land-into-trust application. Get the Story:
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