We don't have any land. One possibility that he favors is building a casino near Alexandria and I-49, which would make the casino accessible to many. My message to Gov. Foster is this tribe will be here long after he's gone. We're being treated unfairly by Gov. Foster. It's hard to make a living making baskets.
Tribal members have jobs offshore and work for the state, for gas and oil companies and as laborers.
No one in the tribe has ever held a job as a fireman policeman or elected official. We're coming from there to establishing a major business to benefit the whole community. There are all kinds of wonderful opportunities out there once we have the land. They were stuck. She thinks they need to work out how to avoid some of the pitfalls that she hears about from other tribes that have casinos.