NIGC yet to issue ruling on United Keetoowah Band casino

Monday, May 23, 2011  

A federal judge ordered the National Indian Gaming Commission to rule on the legality of casino being operated by the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma.

That was five years ago. The NIGC doesn't appear to have issued a new decision and Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt wants to know why.

“The extraordinary delay in the NIGC’s decision-making process is not without serious consequences,” Pruitt said in a letter to the agency, The Tulsa World reported.

The tribe opened the facility in 1991. In 2000, the NIGC said the site did not qualify as Indian land, as required by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, but a federal judge told the agency to reconsider.

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