The Shoshone-Paiute tribes have long wanted their game surgery. After all, they are the only American Indian tribe Aidaho without it.
This dream is now a step closer to fruit.
In the grassy plains halfway between Bois and the Sho-Pai Mountain House, they held a ceremony on Thursday to bless the land where they plan to build their first resort and casino. The parcel overtakes the Ada and Elmore County lines near 84 Interstate 84 about two miles south of the exit from the Boise Stage Orchard Access Road.
Members of the Shoshone-Paiute tribes participate in the Earth’s blessing ceremony.
This site is a part of the Homeland-Tter Homeland, from which their ancestors were forcibly removed a century ago, when Europeans colonized the West and entered the remote Duck Valley Reservation on the Aidaho-Nevada wall.
Life Duck Valley is full of challenges, says Brian Mason, Chairman of the Business Council of the Sho-Pai tribe.
“We still have some members of the tribe living at home without floor or running water,” Mason said. “We are fighting for high unemployment, we do not have access to proper medical care and cannot attract enough skilled teachers. The tribe games can provide us with the resources we need to solve these problems.”
“Whatever we need, we’ll get there,” said Brian Mason, Chairman of the Business Council of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe. “You can rely on that.”
Under the white canopy tents at the end of a long, dusty mud road, hundreds gathered to celebrate an important occasion. The tribal leaders, wearing feathered headgear and other cultural clothes, led prayers, sang traditional songs and performed in a drum circle.
Cars and trucks on the highway were quietly passed on a distant background.
It was a kind of home.
“It is the land of our ancestors, our land, to which our people used to go,” Mason said at the beginning of the ceremony. “We come back with the game operation.”
The Shoshone-Paiute tribal members drive horses on the site of the first and only resort of the resort and casino.
It is impossible without the support of the Coeur d’Aene genus in the northern Aidaho. April The tribe bought more than 500 acres of assets to give it to the Sho-Pai project. The Coeur D’Alene tribe, whose council members went to the South Aidah Blessing event, promised to share their experiences with Sho-Pai to obtain casino editions and development processes.
When the resort is ready and operating, the Coeur d’Alene tribe plans to control it, at least until Sho-Pai learns the ropes.
“This is not a handwriting material,” said J. Allan, chairman of the Coeur d’Alene genus council during the ceremony. “These are two nations working together. We are hard to try. We must confirm it. If we have to camp dc.”
“We are now a family,” said J. Allan, chairman of the Coeur d’Alene genus. “We are 100 percent.
Sho-Pai spokesman Ysabel Bilbao said both tribes are trying to submit a land acquisition to the US Department of Interior by the end of the summer.
“We still have the way in front of us, but it is much shorter,” Bilbao said.
The Law on Games Regulation of India requires the land used for games to be considered a trust – a process where the Department of the Interior acquires land ownership and sees it in favor of the tribe. Released restrictions allowed tribes to build a casino from their reservations further.
During the ceremony, Dereld Julian is dancing.
Sho-Pai has no casino for its reservation or elsewhere, but since 1990 Worked according to play project plans in the mountain house area.
Their resort and casino, about 20 miles southeast of Bois, will generate about tens of millions of dollars a year for Aidah’s economy and create thousands of well -paid jobs, tribes say. This would attract guardians of more than 780,000 people living in Ada and Canyon County, and nearly 30,000 living in Elmore County. It would also attract travelers on the route between Bois and mountain houses.
Tribes imagine the latest game machines, luxury hotel rooms, spa, entertainment center and great meals.
The members of the tribe gather in the circle of drums.
Sho-Pai’s commitment to 5% casino games to local schools and education programs.
“This will give us an income flow so that we can take care of our people home,” Mason said. “These are our youth. They are our future leaders. And for our elders who are there, we apologize that it took so long.”
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