Kiowa Tribe et al v. United States Department of the Interior et al

  1. April 26, 2023

    Okla. Tribe Fights Feds' Dismissal Bid In Casino Land Row

    The Comanche Nation defended its efforts to shut down a rival casino it says is on its historical Oklahoma reservation, arguing its suit is not moot even though the co-plaintiff has settled, and calling "hogwash" on the federal government's assertion that it has failed to show that the opening of the casino cut into its profits.

  2. April 12, 2023

    Okla. Tribe Defends Challenge To New Reservation Casino

    The Comanche Nation is defending its effort to shutter a tribal casino that opened last summer on its historical Oklahoma reservation, claiming an 1867 treaty gives Comanche officials the right to prevent other tribes from occupying those lands, even though the reservation no longer exists.

  3. March 22, 2023

    Fort Sill Apache Tribe Seeks End To Casino Land Challenge

    Officials of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe and its gambling commission have asked an Oklahoma federal judge to toss remaining claims by the Comanche Nation in a suit over land for a casino, arguing that the nation fails to show it ever owned the land.

  4. October 28, 2022

    Kiowa Tribe Asks To Keep Fort Sill Apache Casino Suit Alive

    The Kiowa Tribe has urged an Oklahoma federal judge not to toss a suit it lodged with the Comanche Nation against the U.S. government and Fort Sill Apache Tribe over land for a casino, saying the FSA can't claim it's not subject to a historic treaty.

  5. August 05, 2022

    Tribe Urges Judge Not To Nix Fort Sill Apache Casino Case

    The Comanche Nation is urging a federal judge to reject the government's bid to toss a suit seeking to shutter a recently opened casino, asserting that the Bureau of Indian Affairs misled the plaintiffs into believing there was "nothing that could be done" to stop a transfer of the Kiowa Tribe land where the casino is situated. 

  6. July 07, 2022

    Feds Look To Ax Suit Over Fort Sill Apache Tribe's Casino

    The federal government has urged an Oklahoma federal court to toss the Kiowa Tribe and Comanche Nation's suit claiming that the Fort Sill Apache Tribe unlawfully acquired land to build a casino, arguing that they knew about the gambling facility long before it opened.

  7. June 06, 2022

    Oklahoma Judge Won't Block Fort Sill Apache Casino

    A new casino run by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe may open as planned this month after a federal judge in Oklahoma rebuffed two other tribes' bid to temporarily shutter the facility while they contest ownership of its location within their shared reservation.

  8. May 31, 2022

    DOI, Tribe Fight Attempted Pause Of Okla. Casino Project

    The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Fort Sill Apache Tribe have urged an Oklahoma federal court to deny a bid by a pair of Native American groups to halt construction of a casino on their reservation land, saying they've built their case on false premises.

  9. May 25, 2022

    Okla. Tribes Say New Casino Built On Illegally Held Land

    A pair of Native American groups in Oklahoma have accused the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of building a casino on land within their reservation, which they told a federal court Tuesday the tribe acquired unlawfully from the U.S. government more than 20 years ago.