INDIAN CLAIMS: Feds Kill CATSKILL Casino Proposal

2-19-11 The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rejected a proposal to build a Native American casino in the Catskill mountains. The decision ends the effort by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin to open a casino in the economically depressed CATSKILL area, once a destination for top celebrities at world-class resorts known as the Borscht Belt. The effort sought to combine two complex issues — its land claim and the casino effort, but it was met with great opposition by the Oneidas, who have a world-class casino in central New York, and by racetracks that operate video slot machine centers, which also provide the state with a cut of the proceeds. syracuse.com . http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/feds_kill_catskill_casino_prop.html