Russell,

I found the piece you quoted. It was written in 1987 and says that the Cabazon tribe operates a small card club.

Problem is, that card club would most likely be in Indio, not Cabazon. The Cabazon tribe operates Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio. I believe they also operated the Indio Bingo Casino that was in Indio before Fantasy Springs. I show an opening date of 1991 for Indio Bingo Casino.

The Morongo tribe operates Casino Morongo that is in Cabazon. The legal decision mentioned only bingo was in question with them, not a small card club.

That makes me want to question whether these club cabazon chips have the cabazon name because it was in Cabazon, or if they were used by the Cabazon tribe. If they were used by the Cabazon tribe, the location was most likely Indio, so why would the books say it was in Cabazon? If they are from Cabazon the city, then it is unlikely that they were being used by the Cabazon tribe which means they wouldn't be from the card club mentioned in the legal decision.

Now I would like to know:

1) Has anyone any first hand knowledge of the card club mentioned in the legal decision that was operated by the Cabazon Indians? If so, where was it located and did they have chips?

2) Has anyone any first hand knowledge of the Club Cabazon listed in Eastman's guide as opening in 1957 and being closed? Were these chips indeed from there and was it operated by the Indian tribe? If so, was it operated by the Cabazon or Morongo tribe?

Greg