Gov. Kevin Stitt, Comanche Nation Chairman William Nelson and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe Chairman John Shotton have signed new gambling compacts between the state and those two tribes.

 “These new (gambling) compacts are in the best interest of the state, members of the Otoe-Missouria tribe and Comanche Nation and the local communities where these tribes reside and operate,” said Stitt.

“The new compacts recognize the sovereign rights of individual tribes to conduct gaming in Oklahoma. The compacts take a sound approach to assessing the value of substantial exclusivity in a modernized tribal gaming industry, and importantly, the compacts expand opportunity for both the compacting tribes and the State to compete in future gaming markets.”

”This was not a take-it-or-leave-it compact from the state or the tribe; it was a negotiated compact.”