Wiyot Winnings
So, about four years ago, the governor’s office suggested the two tribes work together. For the Wiyot, there seems nothing to lose in the deal. Elaine Fink, tribal chairperson of the North Fork Rancheria, said on Tuesday that the money the Wiyot will get from her tribe’s casino winnings will be about the same amount the Wiyot would have made if it had built its own casino on Table Bluff.
But what’s in it for North Fork? Did the governor say, either you let the Wiyot in on the deal, or no compact for you? Eastman said that without the Wiyot on board, the governor might not have signed the North Fork’s compact. But Fink says no.
“It wasn’t necessary [to have Wiyot on board],” she said. “But it was a good gesture, it was a good partnership, and it shows that Indian tribes can work together.”
John Maier, legal counsel for the North Fork Rancheria, said the dual compacts satisfy the governor’s 2005 proclamation about tribal casinos: that they benefit the tribe and not be detrimental to the local community. In the case of these two compacts, there’d be a casino in an unincorporated part of Madera County, where nearly everyone wants it, instead of two casinos on two environmentally sensitive areas, he said.
The city and county of Madera support the casino, as do all the chambers of commerce, the irrigation district and others, Fink said. Two nearby tribes oppose the casino — it could compete with theirs. Eastman says she hopes their fears will be eased.
“We hope and we believe that the outcome of another casino would be to stimulate some traffic back and forth between them and so that actually it would benefit everybody,” she said.
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