March 25,2008 

Via U.S. Mail and Facsimile 

Alyssa Campbell 

Office of the Attomey General 

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

2025 South Gordon Cooper Drive 

Shawnee, OK 74801 

Fax: (405) 273-4534 

RE: Amendment to Absentee Shawnee Tribe's Gaming Ordinance 

Dear Ms. Campbell: 

On March 13,2008, you requested that the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) 

review and approve the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma's (Tribe) amendment to 

the Tribe's Gaming Ordinance. The Tribe amended the gaming ordinance on February 

20, 2008, via Resolution No. L-AS-2008-11. This amendment replaces the introductory 

sections and Title I of the Tribe's gaming ordinance, leaving Titles 11-V in place. In this 

amendment, the Tribe restructured its gaming commission and added the requirement that 

each commissioner must undergo a background check and receive a gaming license. 

This letter constitutes approval of the amendment because nothing therein conflicts with 

the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) and the NIGC's 

amendment for review and approval. If you have any 

ff Attomey Rebecca Chapman at (202) 632-7003. 

Chairman 

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RESOLUTION NO. L-AS-2008-11 

ABSENTEE-SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA 

REGULAR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 

FEBRUARY 20,2008 

A RESOLUTION DULY PROPOSED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 

ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA AMENDING THE ABSENTEE 

SHAWNEE TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA GAMING ORDINANCE AS 

PROVIDED FOR IN THE ATTACHMENT "EXHIBIT A", EFFECTIVE 

IMMEDIATELY. 

WHEREAS, the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized Indian Tribe 

exercising all inherent sovereign rights fiom time immemorial; and 

WHEREAS, the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma has a Constitution approved by the 

Department of Interior last amended in August, 1988; and 

WHEREAS, the Executive Committee of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is 

empowered by the Constitution to speak and otherwise conduct business in the 

name of, and on behalf of, the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

and 

WHEREAS, the authorities granted by this Resolution shall be continuing until and unless 

rescinded by separate action of this body; and 

WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the Executive Committee to uphold its constitutional 

responsibility of the Tribe and its membership as the highest priority; and 

WHEREAS, fiom time to time it is necessary to amend laws and ordinances to reflect the best 

interests of the Tribe and the Executive Committee believes it to be in the best 

interest of the Tribe for the Gaming Ordinance to be amended; and 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

amends the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma Gaming Ordinance as provided for 

in the attachment "Exhibit A", effective immediately. , j 
C Resolution No. L-AS-2008-11 

February 20,2008 

Page 2 of 2 

CERTIFICATION 

We, Scott Miller, Governor and Cynthia Carpenter, Secretary of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma, do hereby certify that this Resolution No. L-AS-2008-11 to be a true and exact copy 

as approved by the Executive Committee of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma at a duly 

called meeting held on February 20, 2008, there being a quorum present, by a vote of 3 in favor, 

0 opposed, and 0 abstentions, as follows: Lt. Governor Lopez: Yes, Treasurer Longhorn: Absent, 

Secretary Carpenter: Yes, Governor Miller's vote, if required, NIA. 

SCUr1"l' MILLER, Gover 
ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA 

GAMING ORDINANCE 

Revised and amended February 20,2008 

Section 1. Scope. 

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Ordinance shall apply to all gaming conducted within 

the territorial jurisdiction of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. 

Section 2. Pumose. 

This Ordinance is intended to promote the peace, safety, and welfare of all persons coming within the 

jurisdiction of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma by insuring that any game conducted 

within the tribal jurisdiction is conducted in a fair and responsible manner; and that the public order, 

peace, and safety 

Section 3. Definitions. 

a. "Gaming" shall include all games in manner, type and definition as described in Public 

Law 100-497 - The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (definitions, 25 U.S.C. 2703, section 

4, paragraphs 6-8) as defined in the National Indian Gaming Commission Regulations (25 

CFR Part 502, sections 502.2, 502.3, and 502.4); State Gaming Compact and as detailed 

in the Oklahoma State - Tribal Gaming Act approved November 2,2004. 

b. "Court" means the Ilistrict Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma unless 

otherwise specified. 

c. "Executive Committee" means the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Executive Committee. 

d. "Gaming Commission" or "Commission" means the regulatory agency established by the 

Absentee Shawnee Tribal Executive Committee to monitor all gaming conducted within 

the jurisdiction of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and charged with 

the responsibility to protect Tribal assets. The Gaming Commission is composed of a 

full-time staff headed by an Executive Director, and two part-time Gaming 

Commissioners who conduct hearings, approve licensing actions and adjudicate appeals. 

Section 4. Gaming Licenses. 

No person- or legal entity shall conduct any game or gaming-related activity, or provide equipment, 

supplies, of services within the jurisdiction of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma 

without a license issued pursuant to this Ordinance. No games shall be played which are not conducted 

pursuant to Federal Public Law 100-497, the National Indian Gaming Commission Regulations, the State 

of Oklahoma State-Tribal Compact, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Gaming Commission Policies and 

Procedures. 

Section 5. Filing Instruments with the Gaming Commission. 

Any document, affidavit, return, report, fee or other instrument of payment required to be filed 

with, delivered to, or served upon the Gaming Commission this Ordinance shall be deemed to be 

properly filed, delivered or served, as the case may be, if it is filed, delivered, or served upon the 

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Gaming Commission Executive Director, or any full time employee of the Gaming Commission 

Compliance department. 

Section 6. Issuance of hstruments by the Gaming Commission. 

Any registration form receipt, license application acknowledgment, or other instrument which 

the Gaming Commission is required or permitted to issue pursuant to the Ordinance, may be 

issued by the Gaming Commission Executive Director or any full time staff member, in 

accordance. with the current Gaming Commission Policies and Procedures Handbook. Issuance 

by any such authorized person shall have the same effect as if such instrument were personally 

issued by the Gaming Commission Executive Director. 

Section 7. Audits and Reviews. 

Any individual, organization, or corporation which applies for or receives a license to conduct 

gaming, gaming-related activities, or to provide equipment, supplies, or services within the 

jurisdiction of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma pursuant to this Ordinance 

shall be deemed to have consented to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Absentee Shawnee 

Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Tribe's laws, and shall be subject to seizure of any funds owed, and 

may be subject to an audit review of records by authorized accounting or law enforcement 

agencies of the Tribe without notice or warrant. 

Section 8. Citation. 

The Ordinance may be cited as the Absentee Shawnee Gaming Ordinance of 1990, as revised 

and amended February, 2008. 

Section 9. Severability. 

The provisions of this Ordinance are severable, and if any part or provision hereof shall be held 

void by appropriate judicial authority, the decision of the Court in so holding shall not affect or 

impair any of the remaining parts of provisions of the Ordinance. 
TITLE I - DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT 

Section 101. Absentee Shawnee Tribe Gaming Commission Established. 

In order to provide for the orderly development, administration and regulation of all Absentee 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma gaming enterprises, there is established the Absentee Shawnee 

Tribal Gaming Commission. The Absentee Shawnee Tribal Governor shall nominate persons to 

serve as Gaming Commissioners, subject to confirmation by the Tribal Executive Committee. 

The Gaming Commission shall consist of two duly appointed, part-time gaming commissioners, 

one designated as Gaming Commissioner and one designated as Deputy Gaming Commissioner 

as well as full-time staff departments including, but not limited to, Executive Director, 

Compliance, Surveillance, Background Licensing, Vendor Licensing, Internal Audit, and any 

other departments or divisions that may be required in order to accommodate future gaming 

growth. The Gaming Commissioners shall recommend, and the Governor shall appoint, a 

Gaming Commission Executive Director. The Gaming Commission Executive Director shall 

provide weekly progress reportslupdates and receive guidance fiom the Absentee Shawnee 

Tribe's Executive Committee. Under the direction of the Gaming Commission Executive 

Director, the gaming commission full-time staff shall monitor the tribe's gaming enterprise(s) for 

compliance with all National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) and tribally prescribed rules, 

regulations, and policies; track, audit, and recommend annual external audit contracts, and verify 

all gaming revenues; prepare appropriate Annual Gaming Commission budgets, hire and staff all 

Gaming Commission departments and divisions for all Absentee Shawnee Tribal gaming 

enterprises; inspect and supervise the installation of all gaming equipment; perform background 

investigations of gaming enterprise employees and gaming enterprise vendors; recommend the 

issuance of, or denial of, Absentee Shawnee Tribal gaming licenses; recommend the suspension 

or revocation of existing gaming licenses. All Gaming Commissioners shall serve in a part-time 

capacity only, and any appointment shall be based only on the integrity and qualifications of the 

appointee, and not on popularity, as the nature of the Gaming Commissioner position is to 

adjudicate and fairly apply the rules, regulations, and policies adopted by the National Indian 

Gaming Commission, in accordance with any compact with the State of Oklahoma, and the 

Absentee Shawnee Tribal Executive Committee, and not to represent the tribal community at 

large. 

Section 102. Gaming Commissioner Qualifications 

The Gaming Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner must meet the following qualifications: 

a. Never been convicted of a felony, gaming offense or crime involving dishonesty 

or moral turpitude. 

b. Not have a direct or indirect financial interest in the gaming facility. 

c. Not be a member of the Executive Committee or Election Commission or related 

to any member of the Executive Committee or Election Commission by blood or 

marriage within the second degree. 
d. Not have had hislher surety bond forfeited or been criminally convicted or found 

civilly liable for any breach of fiduciary duty to the tribe or have been impeached 

or removed from Tribal office. 

e. Be at least twenty-five (25) years of age. 

f. Be a lay member of the tribal community, or a non-tribal member closely 

associated with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, or an individual who possesses 

gaming regulatory experience. 

g. All Gaming Commissioners in order to support the standards and strict 

compliance required of all other gaming enterprise associates, should be subject to 

the same background investigations and licensing standards in all gaming 

enterprise and gaming commission employees, and their investigation should be 

handled in the same manner as any other background investigation, and be 

conducted by the gaming commission's background investigators. 

h. Gaming Commissioners are prohibited from participating in any aspect of gaming 

in any of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe gaming enterprises and facilities during the 

term of their office. 

Section 103. Gaming Commission Term of Office. 

Said Commissioners shall be appointed for a period of four (4) years. In order to maintain 

continuity, the terms for each Gaming Commissioner should be staggered such that only one 

Commissioner is replaced every even-numbered year. The Gaming Commissioner shall be the 

senior member of the Gaming Commission. When the senior member vacates office, the Deputy 

Gaming Commissioner of the Gaming Commission shall automatically shift to the higher office 

of Gaming Commission and the newly appointed member shall be designated as the Deputy 

Gaming Commissioner. 

Section 104. Vacancies and Interirn/Temporarv Commissioners. 

a. Should any vacancy occur, the office shall be filled by appointment of the 

Governor and confirmed by the Executive Committee and the un-expired portion 

of the Commissioner's term shall be filled in the same manner as the initial 

appointment of a Commissioner. 

b. An interim commissioner may be selected by the Governor any time a vacancy 

occurs. Such an interim commissioner shall fill the position until the Executive 

Committee confirms the appointment of a person to fill the Commissioner's 

position. An interim commissioner shall be subject to the same background 

investigation as a regularly appointed commissioner and nothing in this section 

shall prohibit such person from serving as an interim commissioner pending the 

outcome of key employee review. 
Section 105. Removal and Suspension of Gaming Commissioners. 

a. A commissioner may be removed fiom office prior to the end of any term for 

cause under the provisions of tribal law pertaining to same. 

b. A commissioner may be suspended by the Executive Committee for ninety (90) 

days for cause. During such suspension, an interim commissioner shall be 

appointed. 

c. Commissioners shall serve their terms of office free from political influence from 

any department of the government and may be removed only for cause, after a 

hearing in the Absentee Shawnee District Court. 

Section 106. Ouorum. 

A quorum for the conduct of business shall be both gaming commissioner and deputy gaming 

commissioner. Changes to the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Minimum Internal Control Standards 

or to the Gaming Commission Policies and Procedures must be approved by both Gaming 

Commissioners. Each Commissioner is vested with one vote for any decision. If any action is 

not passed by unanimous approval, then the action fails. 

Section 107. Duties and Responsibilities of Gaming Commissioners. 

a. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission shall be charged 

with the sole responsibility of administering and enforcing the provisions of the 

Gaming Ordinance. 

b. A Gaming Commissioners' duties and responsibilities are limited and specific in 

order to enable such Commissioner to fairly and impartially review and adjudicate 

all matters relating to employee, vendor and gaming enterprise compliance with 

all National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC), Compact requirements, and 

tribally prescribed rules, regulations and policies. 

c. These duties and responsibilities shall include, but are not limited to the 

following: 

1. Gaming Commissioners shall review all employee and vendor licensing 

applications and approve- the issuance or deny the issuance of valid 

temporary gaming licenses 

2. Gaming Commissioners shall approve or deny the suspension or 

revocation of existing gaming licenses. 

4. Gaming Commissioners shall hear and decide appeals regarding gaming 

enterprise employee licensing or gaming patron disputes within a 

reasonable time after the incident occurs. 
5. Gaming Commissioners shall adjudicate all other matters related to 

violations of the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Minimum Internal Control 

Standards brought before the Gaming Commission by full-time Gaming 

Commission departments or divisions. 

6. Gaming Commissioners shall review compliance, internal and external 

audit reports to ensure compliance with NIGC, State Compact, and tribally 

prescribed rules, regulations, and policies. 

7. Gaming Commissioners shall review surveillance and compliance 

investigation reports 

8. Gaming Commissioners shall make final determination regarding the 

issuance of permanent gaming licenses following NIGC review of all key 

employee gaming license applications. 

d. Gaming Commissioners shall not attempt to manage, control, manipulate, or 

influence Absentee Shawnee Tribal gaming enterprise operations in any way. 

e. Gaming Commissioners do not have supervisory authority over full-time gaming 

commission staff, and therefore should not participate in, direct or attempt to 

influence the outcome, course or direction of a gaming commission investigation 

into any aspect of compliance, surveillance, revenue control, background 

investigation, or internal audit, or any other gaming commission department or 

division, but must remain independent of all gaming operations and investigations 

so as to be prepared at all times to fairly and impartially judge all matters brought 

before them. 

Section 108. Duties of Gaming Commission Staff. 

a. It shall be the responsibility of the Gaming Commission, under the direction of 

the Executive Director, to timely promulgate regulations necessary to administer 

the provisions of this Gaming Ordinance. 

b. These duties shall include, but are not limited to, the following: 

1. Printing and making available employee and vendor license application 

forms for initial and renewal licenses, as well as any other necessary 

licenses. 

2. Supervising the collection of license fees and other revenues prescribed in 

this Gaming Ordinance and other tribal ordinances relating to gaming and 

gaming-related activities. 

3. Processing all license applications. 
4. Issuing licenses. 

5. Determining and regulating applicable license fees within a reasonable 

dollar amount. 

6. Performing internal audits and contracting for external audits in 

accordance with NIGC, State Compact, and tribal rules; regulations and 

policies. 

7. Reviewing all gaming equipment and gaming operation contracts, records, 

documents necessary and pertinent to the financial accountabilities of 

licensees, or enforcement of any provision of gaming equipment and 

gaming operation contracts, agreements, and this or other related gaming 

ordinances. 

8. Conducting all aspects of gaming licensing. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe 

of Oklahoma Gaming Commission shall have the power and authority to 

deny any application, to limit, condition, suspend, or revoke any license, 

to order the imposition of a fine upon any licensed person or gaming 

vendor for any cause deemed reasonable by the Gaming Commission, or 

to make assessment for money owed the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma by contract or license agreement, and to levy collection of the 

same with or without notice. 

9. Performing any other duties required in the Gaming Ordinance or in any 

amendments thereto or other duties, which may be hereafter specified by 

the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission. 

10. Defending their actions in any court of competent jurisdiction or initiating 

any actions with the consent of the Executive Committee. 

Section 109. Gaming Commission Authority. 

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission may exercise any reasonable 

power and authority necessary to perform the duties assigned by this Gaming 

Ordinance, and is not limited by any enumeration of powers in the chapter. 

Section 110. Confidentiality of Informant. 

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission may refuse to reveal, at any 

court proceedings, the identity of any informant, if such revelation would subject the informant 

to bodily harm. 
Section 1 1 1. Gaming Commission Meetings. 

Regular and special meetings of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission may be held, at the discretion of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

Gaming Commission, at such times and places as may be convenient and open to tribal 

members, with the notice posted in a public place at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the 

meeting. 

Section 1 12. Gaming Commission Organization. 

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission may organize and form 

departments or divisions as may be necessary and from time to time alter such plan of 

organization as may be expedient. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission shall recommend the budget for operations, to the Executive Committee and take 

any other steps necessary to fulfill duties and responsibilities under the Gaming Ordinance. 

Section 1 13. gamin^ Regulation Amendments and Revisions. 

In adopting, amending, or repealing any regulations under this Gaming Ordinance, the Absentee 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission shall give prior notice of the proposed action 

to all licenses and other persons whom the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission has reason to believe have a legitimate and bona fide interest in such proposed 

action. 

Section 1 14. Gaming Ordinance Hearinps. 

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission shall afford an applicant for a 

license or permit an opportunity for a hearing with one Gaming Commissioner prior to final 

action denying such applications and shall afford a licensee or other person or persons subject to 

the Gaming Ordinance the same opportunity for a hearing with one Gaming Commission prior to 

taking final action resulting in terminating, revoking, suspending, or limiting a license or any 

other adverse action the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission deems 

appropriate; provided that the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission, with 

the approval of the Executive Director, may summarily and temporarily suspend or extend the 

suspension of a gaming license for sixty (60) days in those cases where such action is deemed 

appropriate by the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission. In cases where a 

license is suspended prior to a hearing, an opportunity for hearing with one Gaming 

Commissioner shall be provided. 

Section 1 15. Gaming Commission Certification of Findings. 

Whenever upon specific factual finding the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission determines that any person has failed to comply with the provisions of the Gaming 

Ordinance, or any regulation promulgated hereunder, the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

: Gaming Commission shall make a certification of findings with a copy thereof to the subject or 
f subjects of that determination. After five (5) days notice and within ninety (90) days thereof, the 

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

Gaming Commission's Gaming Commissioner shall hold a hearing at which time the subject 

shall have the opportunity to be heard and present evidence. 

Section 1 16. Licensing Hearings. 

At such hearing it shall be the obligation of the subject to show cause why the determination is 

incorrect, why the application in question shall not be denied, why the license or permit in 

question shall not be revoked or suspended, why the period of suspension should not be 

extended, or to show cause why special conditions or limitations upon a license or permit should 

not be imposed, or to show cause why any other action regarding any other person or persons 

subject to any action should not be taken. 

Section 1 17. Adiudication of Licensing Disputes. 

Following such hearing the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission's 

Gaming Commissioners shall within seven (7) days, reach a determination concerning the 

accuracy of the preliminary certification of facts and whether the license in question should be 

granted, continued or suspended, revoked, conditioned or limited, and whether or not any other 

action recommended to or by the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission 

(including, but not limited to forfeitures or fines) should be taken.. 

Section 1 18. Gaming Commission Conflict. 

Each Gaming Commissioner shall execute a conflict of interest provision disclosing 

potentially unethical situations. In the event that a conflict arises, the Commissioner with the 

conflict shall recuse himself7herself from hearing the issue. The issue shall be heard by another 

sitting member of the Gaming Commission. In the event that all Gaming Commissioners are 

conflicted, the District Judge of the Absentee Shawnee District Court shall preside over the issue. 

Section 1 19. Appeals. 

A. The Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma shall have 

exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from final decisions of the Absentee 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission denying, modifying, 

conditioning, or revoking any license. 

B. Any affected party may appeal any final decision of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe 

of Oklahoma Gaming Commission within thirty (30) days after such decision by 

filing a notice of appeal with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission and serving a copy on the Absentee Shawnee Tribe. Thereafter, the 

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission shall promptly file 

the full record of the proceeding, including the notice of appeal with the Supreme 

Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. 
In all appeals, the Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

shall give proper deference to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission. The Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

shall not set aside, modify, or remand any determination by the Absentee 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission unless it finds the 

determination is arbitrary and capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence or 

contrary to law. The Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 

shall issue a written decision on all appeals, which decision shall be final. 

D. The Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma may, in its 

discretion, award costs and attorneys' fees to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma against any appellant whose appeal was frivolous, malicious or in bad 

faith. Such fees shall be assessed and collected as a tax imposed under this title. 

Section 120. Finalitv of Commission of Supreme Court Action. 

Any final finding or determination of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming 

Commission which is not timely appealed, and any final determination of the Supreme Court of 

the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma in proceedings pursuant to Section 119, shall be final 

and binding in any other proceeding against or by the same person before the Absentee Shawnee 

Tribe of Oklahoma Gaming Commission or the Supreme Court of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe 

of Oklahoma.