The chairmen of Colorado’s two Native American tribes asked the legislature Wednesday in speeches at the Capitol to change the state’s sports betting laws so that they can cash in on the multibillion dollar industry.
The chairmen said in-person sports betting is allowed at the tribes’ respective casinos – the Ute Mountain Casino Hotel in Towaoc and the Southern Ute Sky Ute Casino Resort in Ignacio – but that the tribes haven’t been able to offer online sports betting like other casinos in the state.
Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart and Southern Ute Chairman Melvin Baker said neither tribe was consulted when the legislature in 2019 referred a measure to the ballot that year, Proposition DD, asking voters to approve sports betting.
