July 14th, 2025

Bingo in New Mexico »

New Mexico has a stormy gambling past. When the IGRA was signed by the House in 1989, it seemed like New Mexico might be one of the states to get on the Amerindian casino craze. Politics assured that would not be the case. The New Mexico governor Bruce King assembled a working group in 1990 to draft an accord with New Mexico Indian bands. When