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Mohegan Sun is an American casino, owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribe on 240 acres (97 ha) of their reservation, along the banks of the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut. It has 364,000 square feet (33,800 square meters) of gambling space.
As of the 2016-17 fiscal year, the two casinos had a total annual slot handle of $13.2 billion, with winnings of $1.1 billion. [3] [4] Tribal gaming began in 1986 with the opening of a high-stakes bingo parlor on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation, after a court ruled that state bingo regulations did not apply on the tribe's sovereign land. [5]
Their reservation is the Mohegan Indian Reservation, located on the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut. In 1997, the Mohegan Tribe's Council of Elders adopted a vision statement reflecting their identity and roots, stating the tribe’s commitment to ancestry, learning, and the environment. [1] This is reflected in the constitution. [2]
The move will conclude an agreement the tribe's gambling arm, Mohegan Gaming Advisors, made with Resorts in 2012 six months after the casino's co-owner, veteran gambling executive Dennis Gomes, died.
Since opening in 1996, the state of Connecticut has received more than $3 billion in slot revenue from Mohegan Sun alone. The success of both casinos is due in no small part to their location roughly halfway between New York City and Boston. [27] The economic recession that began in 2007 took a heavy toll of receipts, and by 2012 both Foxwoods ...
Aug. 9—An Atlantic City, N.J.-based group seeking to permanently ban smoking in casinos has nothing but praise for management at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, which have remained smoke ...
Lester Skeesuk, a Narraganset-Mohegan, in traditional regalia. The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. [1]
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