Wampanoag to push for casino

2007-02-15 16:48:27

The Native American Mashpee Wampanoag tribe plan to start procedures for building an off-cape casino if they are awarded state recognition today.

A spokesman for the tribe explained that they would take advantage of all the new opportunities that this acknowledgment would provide.

This would include buying up new land and entering into negotiations about opening a class III casino, which could include slot machines.

Scott Ferson, the tribe's spokesman said that the tribe had already chosen the area in which they hoped to buy land, in traditional tribal territory, off-Cape in Southern Massachusetts.

"The tribe will look to purchase or acquire land, more than it currently has under ownership now," Ferson said to South Coast Today.com.

"The tribe has also had discussions with the governor's office. We would seek to discuss with them the possibility of entering into a gaming compact for Class III gaming."

As well as getting state authorization to purchase any new land, the gambling expansion would have been agreed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.


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