“I think they should of just given us the courtesy to call us because we’ve made reservations two weeks in advance,” Reyes says. Jenny Reyes and her family drove from Paso Robles Friday to spend the weekend at the casino, but were turned away. There is money to be made.”Īnd if the casino every opens back up it may have a hard time attracting visitors. “Nobody knows who the bad guys are, nobody knows who the good guys are,” Avery says.” So why don’t you just get together and be a team and make it work.

Perhaps Avery’s husband Gene sums up the situation the best. “And with this who knows when that place is going to open, if it’s going to open back up.” “It hurts us because we need two paychecks to make it,” Avery says. The temporary closure is making it hard for many like Diane Avery, who’s worked in housekeeping at the resort for three years, to pay her bills. She's afraid she may have to look for a new job.īut not everyone is relieved. Valley Public Radio Diane Avery (seen here with her husband Gene) has been in housekeeping at Chukchansi for three years.

“If it can happen to them it can happen to us.” “In one hand it is absurd and everyone is just appalled by it, but in the other hand it’s a learning lesson for the rest of us,” Rocha says. “They still have to prove that this place is not a safety hazard.”Īt some point during the takeover a fire alarm was pulled, the casino was evacuated and the factions locked themselves in two different parts of the building. Rocha says the Native American world is watching the situation very carefully. “They went in there and tasered security guards,” Rocha says. On Friday state and federal authorities ordered the closure after one of the factions tried to take it over at gunpoint Thursday, endangering over 500 employees and visitors in the building. Now you add the equation of money and that always make an interesting stew of calamity.' “Well we also carry the grudges of seven generations behind us with us. 'One of the things I tell people about Indian country, you know we talk about how we look ahead seven generations,” Rocha says. Rocha runs the Native American news site . He knows all about tribal friction. “There is no bad guys, there is no good guys. “It’s very much like a family business in turmoil,” says Victor Rocha.

So we come in and we want to know what happened to it and we want to bring criminal charges against them' - Tex McDonald 'They stole money from us $11 million is missing since they've been in power.

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