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Graton Resort & Casino is an Indian casino and hotel outside Rohnert Park, California, that opened on November 5, 2013. It is owned and operated by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The casino has 3,000 slot machines, 144 table games, and a poker room. [2] In November 2016 it opened an adjacent hotel with 200 rooms. [3]
The Graton Rancheria was a 15.45-acre (62,500 m 2) property in the coastal hills of northern California, about two miles (3 km) northwest of Sebastopol. The site is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the hamlet of Graton , population 1,815 in 2000. [ 1 ]
In 1964, an amendment to the California Rancheria Termination Act (78 Stat. 390) was enacted, terminating additional rancheria lands.Overall, then, there were 3 rancherias terminated prior to Public Law 85-671, 41 mentioned in Public Law 85-671, an additional 7 included in the amendment of 1964 and 5 that were never terminated but were listed, correcting the number of California Rancherias ...
He co-authored the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act, 25 U.S.C. §1300n (Act) with California Indian Legal Services. [20] President Clinton signed the Act into law on December 27, 2000, officially granting the tribe status as a federally recognized tribe. [ 21 ]
The Graton Rancheria was a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) Indian rancheria near Sebastopol in Sonoma County. The rancheria was established for Coast Miwok, Southern Pomo, and other Indians living in the region. In 1920, when Indians began to settle the land, they discovered that all but three acres (12,000 m 2) were inhospitable.
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Graton Rancheria, a former federal land holding; Graton Resort & Casino, Sonoma County; Françoise Graton (1930–2014), Québécoise actress; Jean Graton (1923–2021), French comics author Studio Graton, his drawing studio; Graton éditeur, his publishing house; Louis Caryl Graton (1880–1970), American geologist
In 2005 the casino was expanded into a "full-fledged" casino with slot machines and video bingo. [3] However, by 2016 the workers who were making an average of $12 an hour were complaining that it was too low with the salaries at nearby Oaks Card Club being $14 and Graton Casino also hovering around $14 and thus asked for a 12% wage hike.