Other Tribes await federal recognition and will pursue the same entitlement.
The solution? Instead of spending taxpayer dollars fighting this to the Supreme Court, REPEAL THE CASINO DEAL! It was a mistake from the beginning.
This from SHNS:
The Commonwealth: Tribal gaming is settled and
the Mashpee Wampanoags can build a casino on land they
the Mashpee Wampanoags can build a casino on land they
got from the feds. [everyone pats themselves
on the back]
on the back]
Aquinnah Wampanoags: We're gonna do it too. In
this one shabby building we own on the Vineyard.
this one shabby building we own on the Vineyard.
The Commonwealth: Wait, wha...?
National Indian Gaming Commission: Yup, they
can.
can.
Gov. Patrick: Well you can't, 'cause that's
too many casinos and because of this 1983 settlement! [blows dust off of ancient
scroll from the early '80s]
too many casinos and because of this 1983 settlement! [blows dust off of ancient
scroll from the early '80s]
Aquinnah Wampanoags: Nah, we're still gonna do
it.
it.
Patrick: Boom. Lawsuit.
[Enter: Supreme Judicial Court chorus
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State sues to block Martha’s Vineyard casino
By Mark Arsenault
| Globe Staff December 02, 2013
David L. Ryan/Globe staff
The site of a proposed casino on Martha’s Vineyard in a photo taken in November.Governor Deval Patrick’s administration today filed suit in state court to block the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah from opening a small casino on tribal land on the western edge of Martha’s Vineyard, the island off the Massachusetts coast popular with summer vacationers.
The lawsuit, filed before a single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Court, comes three weeks after the tribe threw a curve ball into the state’s unsettled gambling industry by announcing it had received all necessary federal approvals to convert an unused tribal building into a temporary gambling hall “as soon as possible.”
State officials maintain the Aquinnah gave up their right to host tribal gambling in a land settlement deal in the 1980s.
“We have a genuine difference of legal opinion, and that needs to be sorted out by a court, and this is how you do that,” Patrick told the Globe, in an interview in a State House elevator. “I don’t have a position on the substance [of a Vineyard casino]. I have a position on what the law provides.”
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After the tribe made its announcement in mid-November, residents expressed mixed feelings about a possible casino.
In the off season, the island has a population of 15,000. In the summer, the population of the island off the state’s south coast, which is accessible by ferry and by air, swells to 115,000. The island has gained attention in recent years as Presidents Clinton and Obama have vacationed there.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/02/state-files-suit-block-martha-vineyard-casino/8W88DeMuoK5EB90iTsv6FK/story.html
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