Should Indian Gaming stay on Indian lands, or move where Las Vegas wants it?
It’s a Twisted Story.
A Las Vegas gambling company (Station Casinos) purchased 305 acres of land off Highway 99 in Madera to build a mega-casino. But, Station had a problem. California law only allows casinos to be built on tribal lands.
Station’s solution: They recruited the North Fork Rancheria based in the Sierra foothills, nearly 50 miles away from the Highway 99 casino site, to petition the federal government to declare the Highway 99 casino site as their tribal reservation.