The three sites are in close proximity to each other, across from the Mandalay Bay and Luxor casinos. Ali Baba Lane, one of the three sites purchased by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, along the south Strip in Las Vegas, Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

“I’m not against business, but to buy land with no plan doesn’t make sense to me,” Hall said in April during a visit to Las Vegas to protest his leaders’ actions and see what the tribes bought. Hall and other critics say the tribal government has lacked transparency, and they contend there are plenty of needs - and other ways to spend the money - back home in North Dakota. The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation spent $115 million for land along Las Vegas Boulevard over the past three years without concrete plans for the sites or public votes on most of the spending.

(Jodi Rave Spotted Bear for the Las Vegas Review-Journal)Ĭattle rancher Todd Hall was standing on land near the Strip, surveying real estate his tribal government had purchased more than 1,000 miles from their reservation. Husband and wife Todd Hall, right, and Patti Jo Hall have lunch on their ranch after branding calves near Dunn Center, North Dakota, on Sunday, May 21, 2023.

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