It requires layers of approval from city, county, state and federal governments, which have concerns including whether the tribe will give government a cut of the winnings and how it will work with the police and other local authorities. Indian tribes around the country have hitched their livelihood to casino gambling, but only recently have tribes been seeking casinos off reservations. It is controversial because it would be an Indian casino that is not on an Indian reservation, leading critics to ask whether Kenosha would be subjecting itself to economic and social problems, while the tribe reaped the casino's rewards.
The property would become the site for the nation's third-largest Indian casino, but that is not why it is raising eyebrows. But if the Menominee Indian tribe has its way, it will annex part of Kenosha to its reservation 200 miles away. There is no Indian reservation in this scrappy city in southeastern Wisconsin.
