These endeavors appear to have proved fruitful as the tribe used an official Friday press release ( pdf) to declare that the Shooting Star Casino Star Lake project had been unanimously rescinded. This situation reportedly came to a head in June when casino critics, Leonard ‘Alan’ Roy and Raymond Auginaush, won seats on the White Earth Band of Ojibwe’s tribal council and immediately embarked efforts to defund the envisioned project.

However, the plan had immediately come under fire from local residents due to environmental and quality-of-life concerns while several tribal members had even reportedly voiced their unease at the financial implications of such a large project, which was to encompass a 180-room hotel alongside a casino with some 850 slots. In northern Minnesota, the federally-recognized White Earth Band of Ojibwe has reportedly abandoned a plan that would have seen it spend approximately $130 million in order to build a casino near the small community of Dent.Īccording to a Monday report from the Grand Forks Herald newspaper, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe is already responsible for Shooting Star Casino-branded gambling venues in the Minnesota towns of Mahnomen and Bagley and unveiled a proposal in 2015 that would have seen it construct the Shooting Star Casino Star Lake on 14.7 acres of tribal land in nearby Otter Tail County. Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Casino proposals, Casino News, Minnesota Betting on sports futures, props and lay bets.

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