{"id":9175,"date":"2015-10-28T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/east-texas-tribe-to-offer-bingo-after-federal-ruling\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:28:24","slug":"east-texas-tribe-to-offer-bingo-after-federal-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/east-texas-tribe-to-offer-bingo-after-federal-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas tribe to offer bingo after federal ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nLUFKIN, Texas (AP) \u2013 A Native American tribe in East Texas says it plans to offer electronic bingo on its tribal land after receiving clarification on the issue from a federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Lufkin Daily News reports (<!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1k7QuZF\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1k7QuZF<\/a><!-- m --> ) the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Indian Gaming Commission on Tuesday affirmed the right of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas to operate gaming activities on its 10,200-acre reservation east of Livingston.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Alabama-Coushatta Tribe has sought approval of gaming activities at the state and federal level since the closure of the tribe\u2019s casino in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe National Indian Gaming Commission will provide regulatory oversight to the tribe\u2019s gaming facility.<\/p>\n<p>\tNita Battise, tribal chairperson, says in a statement that offering bingo will benefit the tribe as well as Southeast Texas through new jobs and tourism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN, Texas (AP) \u2013 A Native American tribe in East Texas says it plans to offer electronic bingo on its tribal land after receiving clarification on the issue from a federal agency. The Lufkin Daily News reports (http:\/\/bit.ly\/1k7QuZF ) the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}