The new head of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe says he intends to take a cautious approach to gambling while turning attention to social challenges and other economic opportunities for tribal members.
Officials wield shovels, including from third left, Tribal Council member Winnie Johnson Graham, state representative Shaunna O'Connell, and Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye during an official groundbreaking, April 5, 2016, in Taunton, Mass., where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe hopes to build a resort casino.
But he said tribal leaders also want members to look at the idea with fresh eyes, given how much the landscape for gambling has changed. Meanwhile, anti-casino residents in Taunton, the city where the Mashpee Wampanoag project is proposed, have asked a Boston federal judge to reopen their legal challenge.
Weeden said the latest legal challenge won't deter the tribe, which traces its ancestry to the Native Americans whom the Pilgrims encountered centuries ago but which was federally recognized only in 2007. Opting to build a more modest slot parlor or bingo hall, Weeden said, would exempt it from a 17% state tax on gaming revenues, even if it meant not being able to offer popular table games like blackjack and poker.
Next month, tribal leaders hope to present to members a plan to spend down the tribe's roughly $15 million allocation from Biden's coronavirus stimulus bill. Weeden says they will also pursue federal funds through the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Biden recently signed into law, which includes some $11 billion for tribes.
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