![]() The process can take years, Crawford said. This can be done by Congress, the courts or the Interior Department. It is possible - eventually - for Indian tribes to build casinos on land away from their reservations, according to Sarah Crawford, Intergovernmental Affairs Liaison with the federal National Indian Gaming Commission.Ī tribe must buy land, then have it legally designated as a certain type of trust. ![]() “We are investing in our future,” she said. With the land purchase, Buck said, the tribe is diversifying its investments. Tribal businesses employ about 1,700 people. The tribe owns Treasure Island and Mount Frontenac Golf Course, both in Red Wing. ![]() “We currently live 600 yards” from the storage site, she said. “We want to invest in land in a place that is safer.” (Courtesy of Treasure Island Resort and Casino) The tribe objects to the practice of storing radioactive fuel rods by the plant. Buck said that the tribe is buying the West Lakeland Township property, in part, because the tribe’s Red Wing reservation land is next to the Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant.
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