SINCE the Grand Coulee Dam flooded our reservation in the 1930s, the Spokane Tribe has sought economic development projects to help sustain our 3,000 members. The dam destroyed our traditional salmon grounds, Casino Slots Review so we turned to natural resources. Uranium mines were opened on the reservation, and when the mines closed in the late 1980s, we were left with sick residents and a Superfund site. The large wildfire on our reservation this summer destroyed millions of board feet of our reservation timber.

And Casino Slots Review still, the needs of our community continue to grow. Like other tribal governments, we augment our historic revenues with casinos. But in 1998, the federal government and then-Gov. Gary Locke approved a tribe headquartered in the northeast corner of the state, the Kalispels, to open a Casino Slots Review 10 minutes from downtown Spokane. We objected to allowing another tribe’s casino in the heart of our ancestral homelands, and we pointed out that our two remote casinos would never recover, which would prompt us to open a Casino Slots Review closer to metropolitan Spokane.

That day may be almost here.