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Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota P. Box 16, Nett Lake MN The states were offered a voice in determining the scope and extent of tribal gaming by requiring tribal-state compacts for Class III gaming, but tribal regulatory authority over Class II gaming was preserved in full.

The Act further provided for general regulatory oversight at the federal level and created the National Indian Gaming Commission as the primary responsible federal agency.

Enacted in as Public Law and codified at 25 U. The Act established three classes of gaming with a different regulatory scheme for each. Class I gaming is defined as traditional Indian gaming and social gaming for minimum prizes.

Regulatory authority over Class I gaming is vested in tribal governments. Class II gaming is defined as the game of chance commonly known as bingo which may include the use of electronic, computer, or other technological aids and if played in the same location as the bingo, pull tabs, punch boards, tip jars, instant bingo, and other games similar to bingo.

Class II gaming also includes non-banked card games, that is, games that are played exclusively against other players rather than the house or a player acting as a bank. The Act specifically excludes slot machines or electronic facsimiles of any game of chance from the definition of Class II games.

The Tribes possess the authority to conduct, license, and regulate Class II gaming, so long as the state in which the tribe is located permits such gaming for any purpose and the tribal government adopts a gaming ordinance approved by the Commission.

Tribal governments are the primary regulator for Class II gaming. The definition of Class III gaming is extremely broad. It includes all forms of gaming that are neither Class I nor Class II. Games commonly played in casinos, such as slot machines, blackjack, craps, and roulette, would clearly fall in the Class III category, as well as electronic facsimiles of any game of chance.

Before any tribe may lawfully conduct Class III gaming, the following conditions must be met. First, the particular form of Class III gaming the tribe wants to conduct must be permitted in the state in which the tribe is located.

John McCain of Arizona, stipulated that tribal gaming would be allowed only in states that already sanctioned some sort of gambling , such as a state lottery, card rooms, horse racing or casinos.

Symington, fearful that the state would become a gambling mecca, refused to create compacts with tribes as required by the gaming act. Four tribes sued the state, while the others, including Fort McDowell, insisted that it was their sovereign right to offer gaming on their tribal lands.

Since the state already regulated dog and horse betting, the tribes felt it would have to abide by the federal law and create gaming compacts with them. Symington asked U. Attorney Linda Akers to resolve the situation. Akers in turn warned the tribes that they risked seizure of the machines if they didn't remove them.

But the federal and state governments failed to reckon with the indomitable spirit of the Yavapai people who had already fought — and won — several battles dating from the late 19th century.

The tribe fought for its reservation, for the right of Native Americans to vote, for the right to lease part of its water settlement and to prevent its lands from being drowned beneath a reservoir.

Around noon on May 12, Mark Flatten, a reporter for the East Valley Tribune, phoned Doug Cole, Symington's deputy chief of staff. That morning, Flatten heard about a commotion out at the Yavapai reservation.

Cole was used to getting calls from reporters, but this one set off alarms. The federal government holds land in trust for tribes, which govern the land as sovereign tribal nations. Symington took an Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter to Fort McDowell and on landing saw the Mayflower vans holding the gaming machines.

The governor and the Fort McDowell president met in private and agreed on a day cooling-off period to allow for negotiations. Pattea was a seasoned veteran of skirmishes with federal and state officials. State and federal officials wanted to build the dam at the confluence of the Verde and Salt rivers, but tribal members opposed the idea and forced Arizona and the federal government to withdraw the proposal and redraw parts of the plan that established the Central Arizona Project.

Fort McDowell now celebrates that decision each November with Orme Dam Victory Days. He had retired from state service to serve on the Tribal Council full time. On the day armed FBI agents stormed the casino building along Arizona State Route 89, known to locals as the Beeline Highway, the Fort McDowell Gaming Center was about 50, square feet and offered bingo, slot machines and video poker machines to patrons eager to try their luck without taking the long drive to Las Vegas.

The feds sought out those machines because they said the tribe had no legal right to operate them. Within minutes, FBI agents served him and other managers with warrants to search the casino's files for ownership papers. The agents started to load the tribe's gaming machines into Mayflower moving vans parked outside.

Pilcher and other tribal members set up phone trees to notify the tribe about the raid. Soon, people began arriving. Pilcher said what was most hurtful about the experience were the guns pointed at him and other casino workers, both Native and non-Native.

Gerald Doka, now a member of the Tribal Council, was at his job at the tribal nursery when his boss drove up and told him trucks were backed up to the casino with FBI agents guarding them.

Doka and four other tribal members drove down to see what was happening. Gerald Doka said someone came up with the idea to call people or drive to their homes. Within two hours, the crowd grew to several hundred tribal members as the FBI continued to load up machines.

The tribal attorney explained to the crowd what the term meant. By that time, the media had arrived , with news helicopters, cameras and reporters. Burnette, the future tribal president, was also on the phone. Although she worked at a federal agency at the time and could not take direct action, she could make phone calls.

Burnette emphasized that even though she couldn't be at the standoff, her heart, thoughts and prayers went to the community. Tom Jones, the council member's brother and father of Carmen Jones and a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marines , was on duty as an equipment operator at the city water treatment plant.

He said he got involved in the conflict because as a tribal member, he wanted to protect his tribal rights and sovereignty to have gaming machines if they wanted them. There were a lot of people there that came to help us show our resistance.

Among them, a group of Mohawks on motorcycles arrived from New York to support the tribe's stance. People and nearby businesses brought food and water; one Fountain Hills restaurant sent sandwiches.

Inside, the bingo hall continued operations.

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Many Native Americans feel that the strict IGRA rules infringe on tribal sovereignty. Tribes also sometimes struggle to reach agreements with states on Class III games, which has slowed the economic surge fueled by gaming.

In the early 21 st century, disputes arose over whether revenues from pull-tab games are subject to tax under the Internal Revenue Code. These games resemble lottery tickets. Two intermediate federal appellate courts reached opposite conclusions on this issue.

The Supreme Court eventually ruled that revenues from pull-tab games are subject to federal taxes. The tax laws in this area applied specifically to Native American tribes, although not to states. The Court acknowledged the principle that federal laws affecting tribal activities should be interpreted in favor of tribes when an ambiguity exists.

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Find a Lawyer. Civil Rights and Discrimination Legal Center. Constitutional Law Center. Administrative Law Center. Justia Legal Resources. Law Students. Native American gaming also referred to as Indian gaming or tribal gaming , at least on its current scale, is a relatively recent phenomenon and has developed in ways that even its proponents did not anticipate, very quickly becoming an enormous and still-rapidly-growing industry.

It has generated very complex legal issues and problems, ranging from constitutional clashes over state and federal powers to rivalries within and between tribes and states. As a result or perhaps a cause , this industry has been shaped to a very large degree by federal court rulings, rather than the political process; several ongoing cases are currently making their way through state and federal courts, several with the potential to significantly alter existing conditions and practices.

As in most constitutional issues, principal and self-interest are conflated: the most abstract and noble principals cannot be easily separated from narrow self-interest. Because of the large sums of money at stake, disputes over Indian gaming have been the means of bringing many of these otherwise abstract issues to a head.

Federally-recognized Indian tribes are grouped under the legal status of "defeated nations. Without such a designation, constitutionally they are little more than private associations.

These tribes, both as collective units and their individual members, are wards of the federal government, which has a legal responsibility for their protection and the promotion of their welfare. As such, they enjoy rights, or suffer restrictions, not applicable to other Americans.

For example, reservation land is not owned by the tribes or their members but instead is held in trust by the federal government. And reservations are virtually off-limits to state and local laws and authorities, even though reservation members vote in state elections. This triangular relationship between individual tribes, the respective states, and the federal government forms the center of the debate over Native America gaming, and is never absent from any aspect of it.

One key part of this many-faceted debate is the ever-present debate between those who believe assimilation into the larger American society is a worthwhile objective, and those who vociferously oppose it.

As part of this contest, the image of reservations for many has changed from being places in which the residents were involuntarily confined to being places of protection from outside forces, especially against the several state governments, traditionally seen as hostile to Native American rights The federal government, despite all of its possible benign neglect -- and the Hollywood image notwithstanding -- has traditionally been regarded as their protector.

A desire to protect their "sovereignty" against state and federal encroachment has motivated both proponents and opponents of Indian gaming, with many proponents seeing it as a means of gaining financial independence from the federal government, and some opponents seeing it as the means by which both state and federal government can increase its presence on the reservation.

This argument, among others, was successfully employed by leaders of the anti-gambling movement in the two occasions when voters on the Navajo reservation, the largest in the country, turned down gambling.

The Supreme Court, in the so-called Cabazon decision of , in effect removed virtually all existing restrictions on gambling on Indian reservations. What had previously been a relatively small and isolated phenomenon suddenly began growing rapidly.

In response, Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act IGRA in , which in effect authorized casino gambling on Indian reservations and provided a regulatory framework and oversight body for the industry in the form of the National Indian Gaming Commission NIGC.

Indian gaming was divided into three classes for purposes of licensing and regulation; Class I covers charitable and social gaming for nominal prizes; class II includes bingo, punch-boards and pull-tabs; Class III facilities include casinos, high-stakes bingo, slot machines, and all other commercial forms of gambling.

As of December 31, , there were tribes operating gaming facilities on and off reservations. In 8 of these states, the only casinos in the state are on Indian reservations.

Ten of the tribes accounted for over half of this total. For purposes of comparison, in the Class III Indian gaming facilities casino-type gaming generated about the same total amount in gaming revenues as the 12 Atlantic City casinos, and surpassed them in Of these facilities, 8 accounted for almost half of the total revenues.

This uneven distribution of revenue earned by individual casinos is similar to that of the industry in Nevada, where a handful of the licensed casinos account for the bulk of the gambling revenues, and unlike that of the Atlantic City casinos, which are far more equal in their share of the local business.

It need be noted that there is no regular, comprehensive reporting of income, expenditures, etc. by Class III casinos. Many of the figures in the public literature ascribed to Indian gaming are estimates based on dubious statistics.

The most reliable information comes from a General Accounting Office GAO study in which reported accurate data for the first time.

No ongoing reporting source of accurate information is as yet in place. In addition to purposes such as regulating an industry recently brought into existence and beyond the reach of state regulators, IGRA's proponents wanted to use gambling as a means of providing money for financing tribal governments, which often had little or no tax base, and also as part of a general effort to promote the economic self-sufficiency of the tribes.

For this and other reasons, the IRS has determined that for purposes of income taxation, the gambling income of the Indian tribes and their federally-chartered corporations the form casinos usually take are not subject to federal income tax.

Some tribes have chosen to distribute all or a portion of the tribe's net income from gambling to individual tribal members. However, distributions of tribal money to individual members can only be done if approved by the Secretary of the Interior, following criteria set forth in IGRA.

Money received by individual members of the tribes is fully subject to federal income tax. Without question, Native American reservations have some of the highest rates of poverty, unemployment, welfare dependency, school dropout, alcoholism, and other indicators of poverty and social distress of any communities in the U.

Many are located in remote areas with little indigenous economic activity. Given this background, it is not surprising that gambling has been seized upon by many tribes, as it is one of the few proven and available means of generating income for them.

The prospect of sudden wealth after seemingly endless poverty has given the disputes an element of emotional immediacy that the complex and intransigent constitutional issues themselves probably would lack.