The Nation - News from July 3, 1985

An Indian couple has been told to close its casino by a federal judge in Grand Rapids who said gambling on Michigan Indian reservations is illegal. U.S. District Judge Wendell A. Miles ruled against the casino run by Fred and Sybil Dakotas, members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, saying they violated federal and state laws. The effect on other Indian gambling operations in the state was not immediately clear, but the leader of a Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe in the Upper Peninsula said construction of a half-million-dollar casino will continue. The Dakotas said they had not yet decided whether to appeal.