Proposed Indian Casinos
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, a tribe historically located in the St. Joseph River Valley of northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan, regained federal recognition in 1994, and its members soon voted to pursue casino gaming as an economic development measure. Discussions focused on sites in Michigan because state officials were more friendly to tribal gaming than those in Indiana, and the tribe had deeper ties to the state. A site in New Buffalo, Michigan, near the Indiana border, was selected in May 1996, but reports that the tribe was considering a casino in South Bend or Elkhart continued to surface. By 2001, the tribe said it had no plans for a casino in Indiana. After years of legal battles, the tribe's Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo opened in 2007. The tribe announced new plans in 2012 for a 164-acre "tribal village" in South Bend, including a casino.
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