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(CN) A Native American casino on the Iowa-Nebraska border should not have been approved by the federal government because the site purchased by the Ponca Tribe does not qualify as an Indian gaming establishment, the two states told a federal appeals court Tuesday.
Iowa Assistant Attorney General John Lundquist told the St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit that the question for the three-judge panel is whether Congress created an exception in federal Indian gaming law that allowed a casino on Iowa land acquired by Nebraska’s Ponca Tribe far beyond its historic reservation. Lundquist argued that it did not.