Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (SSM) is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear its case after the Department of the Interior (DOI) blocked its attempt to secure land for a casino to be built near Detroit. It filed for an appeal at the country’s highest court earlier this week.
SSM currently operate Kewadin Casinos, which has five locations throughout the Upper Peninsula. In 2012, the tribe bought the Sibley Parcel, a piece of land in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan near Detroit.
SSM purchased the land using interest from its Self-Sufficiency Fund with the intent of having the federal DOI place the lands into trust.
