Pattea to receive gaming award

NIGA honors Fort McDowell Yavapai leader

President Clinton Pattea to receive Wendell Chino AwardNot many contemporary tribal leaders can say they stood their ground against the FBI and federal marshals and won.

Clinton Pattea can.

Pattea, president of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, will be presented the Wendell Chino Award at the National Indian Gaming Association’s 2009 Indian Gaming Trade Show & Convention, not only for resisting an FBI raid on his tribe’s casino in 1992, but to his 40-plus years of leadership to his tribe and in Indian country.

Pattea will be honored at the Wendell Chino Humanitarian Award Banquet April 15. The banquet is one of the highlights of the NIGA convention.Comment:  For more on the subject, see The Facts About Indian Gaming.