The state of Alaska is actively working to shut down a gaming hall just opened by the Native Village of Eklutna. The Chin’an Gaming Hall is doing a brisk business with pull-tabs and 85 bingo machines in an unassuming building just outside of Anchorage. But state officials maintain the operation is illegal because the tribe does not control the land it is on. Elsewhere, in Maine, tribes are also working against state resistance to expand gaming. They face a regulatory reality that is different from tribes in other states because of legislation in 1980 limiting Maine’s tribes’ gaming enterprise ability.

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Aaron Leggett (Dena’ina Athabascan), president of the Native Village of Eklutna

Aaron Dana (Passamaquoddy), Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative

Chez Oxendine (Lumbee and Cheraw), staff writer for Tribal Business News