It was an individual initiative. The tribe as an institution did not take the lead here.

He favors traffic improvements when it pertains to Utopia, but he opposes them when they pertain to the tribe.

It's a season restaurant and was supposed to open in May, but the tribe has been reviewing its business operations, as it periodically does, and the Tribal Council thought there could be a better use for the building from a business perspective. They see a more profitable use.

Without Gil Reed pushing this facility and the Pine Tree Zone incentives, we would be someplace else. This is a great facility. They have loading docks, they can do our shipping, they have a welding facility, there is plenty of electricity and Gil really sold us on the great work force.

I would love to invite the governor to come down and see the good work that we're dong. Why not?

It's a reaction to over-Americana for the last three years and to foreign origins. And two, it is a search for identity among the Russians themselves.