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Transcript: Nicole Stern

He was a leader who saw gaming revenue as a way to move our tribe into the 21st century

[Stern:]
And if you talk to Native people about the gaming industry – all right, so the American Indian gaming industry and you think of one person, they're going to say Wendell Chino. He felt like it was a way to bring Native people into modern society. That was his big talk whenever he spoke around the world or around the country and, he met many people, many presidents. He spoke to them about our sovereignty and the importance of our sovereignty and making money and moving our people into the 20th Century and then the 21st Century.