This week is the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA). News Headlines Indian Gaming celebrates 35 years Octo.

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The annual revenue from all Indian gaming exceeds $32 billion and represents 43% of all casino gaming revenue in the U.S. These gaming tribes operate in 29 of the 50 states. These are owned by 245 of the nation's 574 federally-recognized tribes. Likewise, the Tribe provides generous assistance to nonprofit organizations that support its local communities.There are 524 American Indian gaming operations in the United States. Pequot history is an unprecedented story of redemption and restoration, which is featured at the Tribe’s world-class Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center ( Today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation owns and operates one of the largest and most successful resort casinos in North America-Foxwoods Resort Casino ( with a variety of other enterprises, including the Lake of Isles Golf Course ( Pequot Pharmaceutical Network ( and the Spa at Norwich Inn ( All together, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation remains one of the State of Connecticut’s highest tax payers and largest employers, and has contributed more than $3 billion to Connecticut through the first-of-its-kind tribal gaming revenue-sharing agreement, enacted in 1993. In 1637, the Pequots became the first native people to survive a genocidal massacre at the hands of European immigrants, in what would become the continental United States.

1666) located in southeastern Connecticut. The Mashantucket Pequots are a native Algonquin people who endured centuries of conflict, survival, and continuity on and around North America’s oldest Indian reservation (Est. About the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation

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