We have to be prudent. In addition to their core casino business 35 miles east of San Diego, the Viejas Indians have interests in a bank, a recreational vehicle park, a television station, a cruise ship line that operates floating casinos off the coast of Mexico and a factory outlet mall where tribe members put on nighttime pyrotechnic shows to tell Indian legends. Pico said total revenue comes to a "substantial amount," but that most earnings are re-invested to maintain the future of the members of the Viejas Band.
That pattern of development was repeated over and over again once money started to flow into tribal coffers. It is run by the Barona Band of Mission Indians. But once the dirt paths were converted into asphalt roads and the one-room schoolhouse became a modern complex, new businesses were begun. Six months from now ground will be broken for a room hotel and swimming pool facility. Tetzloff also said that major investments are possible only when certain conditions exist.
Tetzloff estimated that no more than 10 percent to 15 percent of tribes operating casinos in the U. By By Vincent J. But they are finding an open door on Indian land. Thanks to century-old treaties with the U.
That means the Chinese and other entrepreneurs operating plants on tribal land are exempt from federal and state taxes, federal labor laws and local zoning rules. The welcome mat is out in Ada, a small southern Oklahoma oil town that is the home of the Chickasaw Nation.
Oklahoma officials approached tribal leaders this year when they learned that Nanjing Automobile Group Corp. Several states were vying for the project, but Oklahoma officials knew that the Chickasaws could offer a better deal. Marc Nuttle, a partner in the auto project, persuaded the Chickasaws to join the project. He sold to the tribe, for an undisclosed price, of the 3, acres he owned in the Ardmore Industrial Airpark, a former military airfield that the state pitched as a site for the auto plant.
The tribe wants the federal government to recognize the land as tribal territory so it can offer tenants such as the MG group tax breaks and other benefits. The Chickasaws, about 38, strong, do not live on a reservation.
After being evicted from ancestral lands in the Mississippi Valley in the s, members of the tribe settled in southern Oklahoma. In , the federal government passed a law requiring the tribe to distribute its holdings to individual members.
The tribe was allowed, however, to apply for trust status for land purchased within its historical borders, which encompass 7, square miles of prairie stretched across 13 counties.
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