After a legislative session that saw legal gambling proposals get nowhere, Texas feels further from legalizing the vice than ever. However, a Native American tribe is giving Houstonians a taste of the action in the meantime.
The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas announced this week that the tribe’s forthcoming Naskila Casino Resort will be located in the tiny community of Leggett, just up the road from Livingston and a few minutes south of the tribe’s reservation near Livingston. Cecilia Flores, chairwoman of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribal Council, told Polk County Commissioners Court on Tuesday that the National Indian Gaming Commission had approved the tribe’s request to build a casino resort outside of the reservation on land the tribe owns.
