The Potawatomi also had settlements where their other three casinos are now located.Ī 2016 report commissioned by the Casino Association of Indiana to assess the impact of the new Four Winds Casino found that the tribal casino could reduce Indiana's tax revenue by more than $350 million in its first five years and could cost the state's 11 riverboat casinos and two horse track casinos more than $800 million in gambling revenue over the same time frame by taking away some of their gamblers.

We've put together the last piece of the puzzle for our people to bring our homelands together,' Moody said. 'Our original village site is not far from here.

It was not the right time then,' Moody said during the media tour. We worked fervently to bring the casino to St. 'Welcome to something that has been a dream, a thought, a desire and a need for a long time. While casino officials said the sprawling facility was built in just 13 months, Moody said it took some 20 years from the time it was first brought up to South Bend officials for the doors to open.

Joseph River in what is now South Bend,' Moody said. 'The casino's location near the head of the Kankakee River is historically significant to the Potawatomi it was our area for trade and was called Zenba Odanek, or Ribbon Town, because of items that were commonly traded along the St.