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The new casino was called Casino Morongo and included a dance hall, bowling alley, and diner. [ 4 ] California Proposition 1A, also known as the Gambling on Tribal Lands Amendment, was on the March 7, 2000, ballot in California, where it was approved with a 64% win.
Morongo Casino, Riverside County, California. The tribe opened a small bingo hall in 1983, which became the foundation of what is now one of the oldest Native gaming enterprises in California. The government of Riverside County, California, attempted to shut down the bingo hall.
In 1979, the tribe controversially opened a bingo hall in Hollywood, Florida on the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation. The result of that was the lawsuit Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth, in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the tribe was allowed to run a bingo hall. [3]
Cabazon (Spanish: Cabazón) [3] [4] is an unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, United States.Cabazon is on the Pacific Crest Trail. [5] In the 21st century, the area has become a tourist stop, due to the Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa and Desert Hills Premium Outlets.
Morongo Casino Resort & Spa is an Indian gaming casino, of the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians, located in Cabazon, California (Carol Highsmith, 2013). Legal forms of gambling in the U.S. state of California include cardrooms, Indian casinos, the California State Lottery, parimutuel wagering on horse racing, and charitable gaming.
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Both the bingo parlors and the Cabazon card club were open to the public and frequented predominantly by non-Indians visiting the reservations. In 1986, California State officials sought to shut down the Cabazon and Morongo Band's games, arguing that the high-stakes bingo and poker games violated state regulations.
The casino is notable, as there has been some news surrounding it (don't have those to hand right now) and the casino's operators, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, have been active politically in the state (including a VERY high-profile battle over expansion of gambling in the '90s that led to, IIRC, dueling ballot initiatives), but this ...