Other cities proposed for such casinos include Portland, Ore.
In Michigan, the Hannahville Indian Community wants to build a gambling hall in a city 20 miles outside Detroit and 457 driving miles from the group's reservation in the Upper Peninsula. In six cases, including the Guidiville proposal, the resorts are slated for land more than 100 miles away. Off-reservation casinos already exist in Milwaukee and Spokane, Wash., having been approved in the 1990s.Īn Associated Press examination of federal records has found about a dozen tribes have filed applications to set up casinos on distant pieces of land, close to population centers. But the law has exceptions, including ones for tribes such as Guidiville that have regained federal recognition in recent decades and are looking to establish a reservation. are on tribal land - often, well-removed from big cities - as envisioned under the 1988 federal law that created the $26 billion Indian gambling industry.
The vast majority of the hundreds of Indian casinos in the U.S.
