Is the idea of one casino per tribe 'a false one' in Oregon? PolitiFact Oregon (via OregonLive.com)
Copyright ImageClick to View Wayne Parry/AP The Coquille Indian Tribe wants to turn a bowling alley in Medford into a casino with 600 video gambling machines, adding to another casino it operates in North Bend. Coquille Tribal Chief Ken Tanner told a reporter that the tribe has the right to build…
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If the Chief wants to rewrite history, how about the tribe commencing payment of federal, state, property and other local taxes? The county needs the money? Maybe just paying for auto license fees for their tax exempt fleet of automobiles. How about the Chief revisiting the laws that permitted many who have less than an ounce of Native American blood to claim to be Coquille? Chief, how about acknowledging the fact that the Coquille made their ancestral home along the waters of southern Oregon, not as neighbors to the Cow Creek nation along the I5 corridor? This war between the Cow Creek and Coquille should be costly and interesting.