Tag Archives: National Indian Gaming Commission
US – COVID takes 20 per cent swipe at Indian gaming’s 2020 revenues
National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) Chairman E. Sequoyah Simermeyer and Vice Chair Jeannie Hovland released the Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 2020) overall Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) figure with 2020 revenues totaling $27.8bn, representing a decrease of 19.5 per cent over FY 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the FY 2020 GGR results. Unlike previous years, the…
US – Tribal gaming reaches record high with revenues of $33.7bn
The National Indian Gaming Commission has confirmed that the 520 tribal casinos, operated by 247 tribes across 29 states, recorded their best ever year in 2018 with revenues totalling $33.7bn, an overall increase of 4.1 per cent over FY 2017. The GGR for FY 2018 is the highest in Indian gaming history; and, unlike previous…
US – Indian gaming generates best revenue increase this decade
The National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) released data showing revenues generated by the Indian gaming industry in 2015 totalled US$29.9bn. After six years of modest, but stable growth, the five per cent increase in GGR from 2014 is the largest increase in 10 years. Chairman Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri, Vice Chair Kathryn Isom-Clause, and Associate Commissioner…
US – National Indian Gaming Commission appoints Associate Commissioner
The Commissioners of the National Indian Gaming Commission have selected Associate Commissioner Kathryn Isom-Clause (Taos Pueblo) to Vice Chair of the Commission. “I am deeply honoured and humbled to take on the additional responsibilities as Vice Chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission,” she said. Vice Chair Isom-Clause was appointed to the Commission by US…
US – New Mexico tribe waits five years for ruling on closed bingo site
The Fort Sill Apache Tribe in New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against the National Indian Gaming Commission after waiting for half a decade for the agency to review the Tribe’s appeal of a notice of violation that its Chairman issued to the Tribe in 2009. “We are asking the court to do what the…
