The Jemez Publeo is trying to locate an off reservation casino in Anthony, NM (near El Paso, TX). Of course it is not yet approved but they are pushing for approval. I want to remind you folks that just last year or two years ago now, Governor Bill Richardson said no to the Fort Sill Apaches about a new casino over in Lordsburg, NM. For your information,  the Fort Sill Apaches are the remnantsof the Warm Spring Apache and the Chiricahuas Apache, desecents of Victorio and Cochise and Geronimo, who roamed southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona, until we captured them, took them prisoner and relocated them to Florida, then Alabama, then Oklahoma…..For 27 years we kept them captive, watched and punished them because they fought for their homeland and yes, their freedom and was the last tribe to give into the American push westward. Some  of them joined the Mescalero Apaches near Ruidoso. The rest of them stayed in Oklahoma as the Fort Sill Apaches….So then they wanted a casino built in their homeland of New Mexico near Lordsburg. Governor Bill said , “No way”. …Now, we continue to punish them, rubbing in their face that we are going to consider the Jemez Publeo Tribe of Northern New Mexico over them for a new casino in southern New Mexico…..I am not too interested in a new casino in New Mexico and neither is the Mescalero Tribe who have a casino near Ruidoso…But for New Mexico to say yes to the Jemez and no to the Fort Sill Apaches is a little to much…And to me, it really is another slap in the face of the Apache people…..