Port Angeles Tribe Files for Casino
The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has filed a letter of intent to construct an off-reservation gambling casino that tribal officials say may never be built. It definitely would not be built on the Port Angeles waterfront, where the tribe owns former U. S. Coast Guard property on Ediz Hook, or where archaeologists have unearthed an ancestral tribal cemetery, according to the tribe's letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles declined Tuesday to disclose the location of the site other than that it lies west of Port Angeles.
The letter of intent is a 'placeholder' against pending federal legislation that would bar Native American tribes from operating gambling enterprises off their reservations, Charles said. A gaming complex would require lengthy and complex negotiations among the tribe, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U. S. Department of the Interior, and the Washington State Gambling Commission.
May 9, 2006
Posted By Bob Hartman
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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