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More News from I notion Country Pgge 9 Spilyay Tyrooo August 8, 2012 Mohegan Sun casinos post lackluster 3Q profit HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The parent company of the Mohegan Sun casinos in Con necticut and Pennsylvania reported last week that third- quarter profit plunged more than two-thirds as new casi nos in the Northeast lured away gamblers and remaining customers reduced spending. The Mohegan Tribal Gam ing Authority said that net income for the April-June period was $9.4 million, down nearly 68 percent from the Kickapoo enacts water restrictions same period last year. Rev enue of $344.4 million was down 4.7 percent. « Mitchell Grossinger Etess,, the Indian casinos’ chief ex ecutive officer, called the re sults “lackluster.” He said the financial per formance suffered in com parison with last year’s third quarter, which posted a 150 percent increase in profit. He also blam ed the weak economy and rising competi tion^^—particularly New York’s Aqueduct racino— for declines in profit and revenue. Etess said Pennsylvania’s M ohegan Sun at Pocono D ow ns p erfo rm ed well. Ground was recently broken for a hotel and convention center that he says will boost profit. “T h ere’s no doubt bur third quarter results were lackluster,” he told investor analysts and reporters on a conference call. “Frankly, our table games are being im pacted more by Aqueduct than we anticipated,” he said. The Genting Group, one of the world’s largest gam bling companies, has opened a gambling parlor at the popu lar horse track in Queens, one o f New York’s outer bor oughs. It’s limited to 4,500 video slot machines and 500 other electronic table games, but is pulling in millions. Aqueduct is a short dis tance from John F. Kennedy International Airport and mil- lions of local workers and residents. Etess said the Mohegan Sun did not anticipate what he called the “acceptance of non-live table games” as a re placement for the Mohegan Sun’s table games in eastern Connecticut. “T here may be a tim e when people are less accept ing of the video games and want five table games and come back here,” he said. Canoe Journey 2012 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The ongoing drought has led an Indian tribe in northeast ern Kansas to impose water co n servation m easures. Kickapoo Tribal Chairman Steve Cadue said the order bans the use o f water for lawns, gardens, swimming pools or car washes. Cadue says the K ickapoo were forced to haul water to the reservation several years ago Tribe has plan if casino closes | TA H LEQ U A H , Okla. (AP)' A#United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees officials say they have a contingency plan in place for- employees if the tribe’s casino is forced to close. The tribe arid Attor ney G eneral S cott P ru itt signed an agreem ent last month that requires the tribe to pay $2 million to the state and secure federal trust sta tus for land on which the Keetoowah Cherokee Casino is located. Casino general manager Rod Fourkiller said that if the trust determina tion is delayed, the facility's 195 employees will be placed on paid leave. Donell Frank photo courtesy of the Canoe Family. The Warm Springs Canoe Family pose for a photo during the journey to Squaxirh. IR S w id en s probe o f p rofits Non-gaming business possible at site MIAMI (AP), - The Inter nal Revenue Service is broad ening .its investigation into whether millions in back taxes are owed by members of the Miccosukee tribe. The Miami-Dade County- based tribe is asking a federal judge to block an IRS de mand for records of gambling profit distributions between 2006 and 2010. The agency also wants minutes of tax-re lated tribal council meetings dating to 1985. TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A federal court won’t stop a . Narivq American tribe from building a non-gaming busi ness on tribal land that was to be the site of a casino. U.S. District Judge G re gory Frizzell issued an order stating the court has jurisdic tion over the state o f Oklahoma’s request to stop the Kialegee Tribal Town from building a gaming facil ity on the land in Broken Ar The tribe contends as a sovereign Native American nation it doesn't have to pay taxes and accuses the IRS of harassment. But government officials say once gambling ' money was paid to individual tribal members it does be come subject to federal in come tax. Past court rulings sided with the IRS. At stake are potentially tens of millions of dollars. The Miccosukee tribe has about 600 members. row, but not over any dispute relating to the construction of a restaurant or sports bar at the site. Frizzell, issued an injunc tion that halted construction of the casino on land allotted to the Muscogee Nation, of which the Kialegees are a branch. Hundreds celebrate rare white bison G O SH E N , C on necticut (AP)—Dozens of Native Americans wore the traditional garb of their ancestors, sang songs and beat drums on a western Connecticut farm Sat urday in celebration of the birth of one of the w o rld ’s , rarest an i mals— a whitê bison: The miracle calf was officially named Yellow M edicine D ancing Boy at the elaborate ceremony at the M ohawk Bison farm in Goshen in the state’s northw estern hills. It was born June 16 at the farm o f f o u r t h - g e n e r a tio n farmer Peter Fay. Many ' N ative A m ericans to n sid er white bison a symbol o f hope and unity; some consider their births sacred events. Experts say white bi son are as rare as one in 10 million. Yellow M edicine Dancing Boy is not an albino, and Fay said D N A testing c o n firm ed the anim al’s bloodlines are pure and there was no intermin gling with cattle. Lakota tribe mem bers from South Da kota were among the hundreds of people who gathered at the célébration. O th er tribal elders from the Mohawk, Seneca and Cayuga tribes partici pated. Mont, tribe to pay half of settlement to members i p t o , Mpjit. - C onfederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes leaders have decided to distribute about half of a $150 million settle^ ment with the U.S. govern ment over misrnanaged land royalties to enrolled tribal members, while keeping the other half for future pro grams. Tribal spokesman Robert McDonald said recent public meetings dealing with the is sue have identified four pro- grarii priorities— providing for elders, preserving lan guage, cultural programs and economic development. “There’smo timeline, but it is clearly a topic they are investing tim e in to ,” McDonald said. The council decided last week to give each of the es timated 7,800 enrolled tribal members $10,000. If the de cision isn’t reversed, the dis tribution would take place on Sept. 12. Some Salish and Kootenai members wanted the entire $150 million distributed, say ing it would help alleviate homelessness and extreme poverty on the western Mon tana reservation. “The tribal council has been holding com m unity meetings for weeks in which H ig h 2S Lookee Loa Assisted Living Pacilifaj a majority of the people had voiced their favor of the 100 percent payout,” said tribal member Ramona Cajune. Gajune said opponents of the council’s decision plan to picket in Pablo. The $150 million allocated to- the w estern M ontana tribes is the second-largest amount allocated to a Native American reservation in the $1 billion government settle m ent w ith 44 tribes an nounced this spring. The larg est settlement is $193 million to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington. 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