SECRETARY’S REPORT PAULETTE JORDAN Coeur D’Alene
Greetings and welcome to all the Tribal Leaders attending our Tradeshow this year in the great city of Anaheim. It is a privilege to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Indian Gaming Association. In 2023, the Association continued our work on behalf of Indian Country, working with the Biden Administration and Congress to secure vital funding for infrastructure and technology on the Reservation, while also helping to secure advance appropriations for Indian Health Care. Securing these resources in the CHIPS Act, Infrastructure Act, and Inflation reduction act was not easy, but working with our sister organizations and of course our Tribal Leaders, Congress and the Administration listened to our message. The Association is still working hard to hard to adapt to new forms of advocacy. We are much more reliant on technological outreach than before the pandemic, and there is much more cooperation and collective work with our sister organizations such as NCAI, NCAIED, USET, ATNI, and others. Even though our missions and policy issues are diverse, they all fall under the umbrella of protecting tribal sovereignty and helping to provide better living conditions on the Reservations. Of course, our gaming revenues continued to be a vital source of income and provide an invaluable lifeline to our communities. It is incredible that starting in 2021, Tribal gaming revenues exploded to a record $39 billion, now in FY 2023 IGA is proud to report $43.1 billion in
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