Claxton was introduced to the team owner by a part Native American friend as a fellow member of an Oklahoma tribe.

The UKB has sued the United States for a share of the proceeds under HR-3534, a bill that required the United States to compensate the Cherokee Nation and two other Oklahoma tribes with claims to the disclaimed drybed lands of the Arkansas River.

All the Oklahoma tribes were divided into "freedmen" and "blood Indians."

In addition to the four sites he helped the Seminoles develop, he has had contracts with three other Oklahoma tribes and bankrolled a gaming hall in Mexico and two in Texas.

Like all Oklahoma tribes, the Miami endured their communal lands being broken up by the Dawes Act and their tribal government destroyed by the Curtis Act of 1898.

Half Choctaw, an Oklahoma tribe, he'd been a licensed social worker at the cultural center since 1978.

In the past, he developed gaming operations for three Oklahoma tribes, as well as casinos in Mexico and elsewhere.

The Oneida Indian Nation of New York, which operates the highly profitable Turning Stone Resort and Casino in central New York, is opposed to a deal between the state and the Seneca-Cayuga Indians of Oklahoma that, if approved by legislators, would permit the Oklahoma tribe to build a casino in the Catskill Mountains.

About two weeks ago, the New York tribe began a media campaign, which included a television advertisement asserting that the Oklahoma tribe planned to take its casino proceeds out of New York.

But, he added, allowing the Oklahoma tribe to operate a New York casino would "open up a Pandora's box because at that point any Indian nation could petition the state to come here."