The MAC-145 type certificate was subsequently acquired by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, who flew a highly-modified version of the design in 1997 as the Micco SP-20.
Learning from operations on the Colville reservation in Washington state, Tommie directed the establishment of a tax-free cigarette shop on the Hollywood Reservation, where the tribe started to generate more substantial income.
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Jim Billie, Chairman of Seminole Tribe from 1979-2001, during expansion of Indian gaming and increase in tribal wealth and economic development; re-elected in 2011
It allowed the Seminole Tribe of Florida to conduct a gaming enterprise in Florida, and was a major U.S. court case protecting Indian gaming, and helped pave the way for Indian gaming, although it brought up the issue of implicit divestiture a judicial issue concerning the rights of indigenous sovereignty within the United States federal trust.
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