The Indian Gaming Association re-elected Ernie Stevens Jr. as chairman for a 13th two-year term, according to the report. Stevens ran unopposed and was elected by acclamation at the association’s membership meeting in San Diego.
The result keeps Stevens in the chairmanship for another two-year term, maintaining leadership continuity at the association.
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Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman Mike Dreitzer and Indian Gaming Association executive director Jason Giles questioned prediction-market companies’ claims that their sports-event contracts are innovative. Dreitzer said companies must obtain a Nevada licence and argued that allowing 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to wager in states where it violates penal codes is not innovation. Attorney Scott Crowell said the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act governs activity on Indian lands; Alabama-Quassarte Chief Samuel Marshall Jr. denied a partnership announced on October 7.
Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman Mike Dreitzer and Indian Gaming Association executive director Jason Giles disputed claims by prediction-market companies that their sports-event contracts are innovative, speaking on the IGA's weekly New Normal webinar on Wednesday. Dreitzer said companies seeking to operate in Nevada must first obtain a licence, and said that allowing 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to wager in states where doing so violates penal codes is not innovation.
Kalshi said that tribal partners own and operate their prediction market apps, while it provides exchange infrastructure. Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town said it expects a share of transaction revenue through its planned PokkeTrades platform; Kalshi did not disclose the revenue split. An Indian Gaming Association-commissioned study projected annual tribal gaming losses of $1.5 billion to more than $7.8 billion under hypothetical scenarios.
Kalshi has pushed back on criticism of its tribal deals, telling Gambling Insider in an exclusive exchange that the tribes involved are not passive name lenders but owners and operators of their own prediction market apps, with Kalshi running the exchange layer underneath. The company said it had unveiled five such partnerships over a matter of weeks. At the same time, as Kalshi itself acknowledged, other tribal nations are contesting its sports event contracts in court on federal gaming law grounds.
Reportedly, Tribal leaders and the American Gaming Association described closer coordination against prediction markets at G2E in Las Vegas. California Nations Indian Gaming Association is also organising a coalition ahead of a possible 2028 online sports betting initiative.
At the Las Vegas edition of G2E, the American Gaming Association and tribal leaders voiced a more unified pushback against prediction markets, and they singled out California as a central battleground. A Main Stage panel contended that sports event contracts from firms like Kalshi take revenue away from states and tribes and should not be accepted as legal substitutes for gambling.
The Indian Gaming Association maintained its opposition to the revised Clarity Act before a scheduled Senate cloture vote. Chairman David Bean said the proposal fails to safeguard tribal gaming rights or constrain CFTC authority. The association seeks explicit protection against federal commodities law overriding state and tribal gaming laws.
The Indian Gaming Association has said it remains opposed to a revised version of the Clarity Act ahead of a scheduled Senate cloture vote, according to the association's chairman, David Bean. The revised bill was released by Senate Banking Digital Assets Subcommittee Chair Cynthia Lummis before the procedural vote.
Senate Banking Digital Assets Subcommittee chair Cynthia Lummis released a revised CLARITY Act ahead of a Senate procedural vote, according to reports. Indian Gaming Association chairman David Bean said the changes did not address tribal concerns and urged lawmakers to oppose the bill unless it protects state and tribal gaming laws.