The only piece of the gaming pie that Oklahoma gets directly from Native American tribes is exclusivity fees. The amounts are based on a share of revenue from Class III machines, which include Las Vegas-style slot machines and non-house-banked card games. Below are totals by fiscal year, as reported to the state.
Note some trends: The fees paid by the Chickasaws, who have the state’s largest gaming operation, have increased by 27 percent since 2010, to $42 million. In contrast, fees paid by the Choctaws, who have the second largest operation, have dropped by 13 percent, to $19.7 million. Likewise, the Citizen Potawatomi nation, is paying 27 percent less, at $4 million. The trends may reflect in part what is happening with total Class III gaming revenues for each tribe, but another factor is that tribes have shifted more to Class II bingo-style machines, which don’t kick out fees to the state.
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(Numbers shown below are in dollars)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absentee Shawnee | 278,389 | 390,853 | 628,081 | 721,904 | 610,906 |
| Apache | 336,199 | 282,311 | 252,065 | 284,992 | – |
| Cherokee | 12,208,041 | 12,567,246 | 13,112,792 | 13,772,410 | 13,637,467 |
| Cheyenne & Arapaho | 2,850,210 | 4,212,290 | 3,662,359 | 3,503,456 | 3,279,764 |
| Chickasaw | 33,330,424 | 35,233,474 | 39,549,519 | 41,094,012 | 42,303,348 |
| Choctaw | 22,753,832 | 22,142,497 | 19,961,755 | 20,748,876 | 19,698,064 |
| Citizen Potawatomi | 5,499,238 | 4,957,066 | 4,277,033 | 4,091,492 | 4,033,981 |
| Comanche | 2,277,850 | 2,849,990 | 3,137,040 | 6,184,430 | 3,171,941 |
| Delaware | 374,534 | 362,572 | 390,014 | 589,514 | 715,864 |
| Eastern Shawnee | 1,453,270 | 1,426,593 | 1,539,188 | 1,653,712 | 1,691,819 |
| Ft. Sill Apache | 1,461,604 | 1,573,519 | 1,543,765 | 1,757,540 | 1,772,842 |
| Iowa | 1,141,585 | 1,087,800 | 1,005,831 | 1,033,598 | 1,126,666 |
| Kaw | 394,152 | 406,946 | 349,186 | 293,800 | 233,246 |
| Kickapoo | 895,422 | 869,895 | 866,983 | 935,132 | 928,989 |
| Kiowa | 2,314,546 | 1,804,705 | 1,879,331 | 1,743,077 | 1,666,168 |
| Miami | 42,704 | – | – | – | – |
| Modoc | 343,742 | 350,975 | 345,436 | 315,018 | 264,735 |
| Muscogee (Creek) | 8,637,622 | 9,556,636 | 10,049,727 | 9,831,428 | 9,070,056 |
| Osage | 4,858,438 | 4,870,033 | 5,720,058 | 5,929,126 | 5,780,946 |
| Otoe-Missouria | 5,051,242 | 4,933,483 | 2,857,234 | 1,880,296 | 1,921,013 |
| Ottawa | 196,563 | 215,293 | 275,305 | 266,274 | 225,608 |
| Pawnee | 267,580 | 338,688 | 358,823 | 330,168 | 291,636 |
| Peoria | 470,940 | 463,907 | 535,786 | 758,418 | 793,199 |
| Ponca | 116,683 | 178,156 | 123,530 | 50,784 | – |
| Quapaw | 5,706,714 | 6,066,706 | 6,533,156 | 6,072,608 | 5,802,368 |
| SacandFox | 1,050,365 | 921,135 | 644,445 | 611,234 | 684,035 |
| Seminole | 250,537 | 356,721 | 439,798 | 439,485 | 520,744 |
| Seneca-Cayuga | 601,761 | 578,899 | 625,626 | 593,407 | 497,451 |
| Thlopthlocco | 12,116 | 101,687 | 144,972 | 149,622 | 128,432 |
| Tonkawa | 2,451,375 | 2,383,285 | 2,099,202 | 1,573,034 | 995,998 |
| Wichita & Affiliated | 309,075 | 414,139 | 522,469 | 500,097 | 441,415 |
| Wyandotte | 436,897 | 401,700 | 386,945 | 316,779 | 239,439 |
| Total | 118,214,263 | 122,237,727 | 123,872,079 | 128,098,469 | 122,621,629 |
Source: Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services.