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Online Blackjack News - Sioux Tribe – the Blackjack, to be or not to be?
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The Santee Sioux Tribe, which originated in 1996, offered slots, replaced by pull-tab machines later on. However, casino officials were always keen on catering expanded Vegas games such as blackjack, roulette and video poker. The tribe’s attempts to deploy the gamut of their games began in 1999 and have been ongoing ever since.
Ohiya, tribal casino in the northeast Nebraska was informed last June that it could not legally operate roulette, blackjack and other Vegas games, as well as pari-mutuel betting on dog racing. Following this announcement the tribe has filed a federal lawsuit tempting this decision, saying that the ruling was arbitrary, capricious and cuts off one of the more crucial income sources of the tribe. The Santee Sioux Nation is heavily dependant on revenues from its casino facility in order to meet economic requirements of the governmental programs.
Conly Schulte, the tribe’s attorney, ratified that the state allows for casino games such as blackjack and roulette to be held for charitable purposes, because it fails to prosecute civic organizations hosting such casino nights. The Interior Department rejected this argument, pointing to the difference between promotions or giveaways and traditional blackjack and poker gambling. The department then added that only lotteries, keno and horse betting are catered by the state casinos.
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| Source: Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Friday, 8 April 2005 |
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