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Article: Tribes Plan to Build Casino at Hood River, Ore., Site, Despite Objections.
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- August 15, 2001
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By Steve Lundgren, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 15--HOOD RIVER, Ore.--The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs are serious about building a casino in Hood River, despite objections of the governor, the community or anyone else, a tribal leader says.
"Everybody thinks we're . . . bluffing, but we're going to build a casino on our Hood River trust property," said Rudy Clements, chairman of the board of directors for the tribes' existing Indian Head Casino on its Central Oregon reservation.
In July, the tribes applied to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to take 175 acres of land they recently ...