From : Chairman David Z. Bean To: IGA Member Tribes Re : Prediction Market Partnerships With Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, and Various Media Outlets Date: March 23, 2026 Dear IGA Member Tribes and Associate Members: Recently there has been a flurry of agreements reached between prediction markets and major sports leagues and news outlets. While exact commercial relationship is unclear, at a minimum it represents a growing public presence of prediction markets in our daily lives. I want to be clear with our Membership and the public at large, Indian Country is united against prediction markets and their illegal and unregulated intrusions into sports betting and other forms of casino gambling. Indian Country is not alone in this stance. IGA has worked hard to forge of coalition of State and Tribal Governments combined with commercial gaming to speak out and bring lawsuits against these prediction markets and their illegal activities. Just because various media organizations and professional sports leagues now have commercial relationships with prediction markets, it does not change the fact that they are operating outside of State and Tribal laws on gambling. I want to also clearly state that the IGA has cut all commercial and professional relationships with any Company engaged in prediction market sports betting. I now urge any Tribal Nation with advertising or commercial commitments to Major League Baseball teams or National Hockey League teams to re-evaluate their relationships and decide whether or not it is in your Tribe’s best interests to maintain a relationship with a league or team that would do business with illegal and unregulated sports books masquerading as prediction markets. We realize that legalizing any new form of gaming, at any level of government, impacts our Tribal gaming industry’s economic interests. IGA also realizes that as a national organization, taking a position on a particular form of gaming requires input from all of our member Tribes from each State and Region of the country. These type of gaming issues always raise provincial concerns unique to each and every gaming Tribe and their relationship with their State as separate sovereigns. That is why one of the key tenets of my Chairmanship is an emphasis on consensus building on gaming issues. Despite the proliferation and media mischaracterizations of what prediction markets are illegally engaged in, I want to reiterate the entirety of the gambling industry is mobilized against prediction markets and of primary concern to IGA is to ensure that tribal interests are protected, particularly avoidance of negative impacts on existing compacts and exclusivity clauses.
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