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Originally Posted by New Era
A deal with the Salt River Nation is a complete unknown. We are talking about a sovereign nation where law is enforced differently. How this would play out is an unknown. I would think this would greatly affect how the facility is run and more importantly the insurance that is required for all events. Safety services would be greatly impacted. I doubt the Salt River Nation could meet some of these requirements and they would not be open to allowing outside interests to participate in this function as it would affect their perceived autonomy or sovereignty.
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Difficult, but not impossible. I was in on the financing work for the Grey Eagle, which involved the band, the bank, the company set to build and run it, and the feds. Very hard to negotiate through the levels of goevrnment, including local, but it got done and was very successful. I know of several other non-Indian run operations which lease reservation land: Redwood Meadows, the Invermere Airport, etc.
Now, US reservations are more tightly run and closed off as I recall, but there are some larger businesses that operate out of a few of them (mostly casinos and golf courses).