The response from the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians to the recent brief filed in federal court challenging its right to build a casino in Vallejo was short and to the point.
In essence, Scotts Valley said the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation is more interested in protecting its neighboring gaming interests than any ancestral rights to the region.
“The bottom line is that Yocha Dehe doesn’t want competition, and they don’t care about economic opportunity for other tribes or the people of Vallejo,” Shawn Davis, tribal chairman of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, said in a statement released on Wednesday.
