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Beating the Bureaucracy: Licensing Land Use Empowers Tribes

For decades, Tribes either have been required to use, or have acquiesced to, a system of “rights of way” to allow access across tribal lands held in trust by the United States and to “leases” for other uses of those lands. After Congress amended 25 U.S.C. §81, Tribes became entitled to issue licenses under a tribal permit system […]

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Winning the “Full Gamut”

Originally published in Indian Gaming | FEBRUARY 2006 The Northern Arapaho are gaining fame as the first Tribe ever to operate Class III gaming without a Tribal-State compact. After running the “full gamut” of the federal Indian gaming process, the Tribe is now entitled to operate the “full gamut” of casino style Class III gambling […]

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Licensing Access for Casinos and Other Development

Originally published in Indian Gaming | OCTOBER 2010 When building casinos and other projects, Tribes have used a system of “rights of way” to allow access across tribal lands held in trust by the United States and to “leases” for other uses of those lands. However, after Congress amended 25 U.S.C §81, Tribes became entitled […]

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Tribal Self-Regulation of Class III Gaming

Originally published in Indian Gaming | April 2006 The Northern Arapaho Tribe is the first ever to operate and self-regulate Class III gaming. Instead of operating under a Tribal-State compact, the Tribe offers Class III gaming under “procedures” issued by the Secretary of the Interior and coordinates its self-regulation of Class III games with the […]

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