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KENWOOD â The United Keetoowah Band recently purchased the Kenwood grocery store, a long-time community staple, and have plans to upgrade the business to better service the area. It will be known as the Keetoowah General Store.Â
When UKB Councilor Charles Smoke was looking for a space to hold Saline District meetings, he said he looked at a building behind the store for a potential meeting space.
âWeâve been talking to chief (Joe Bunch) about finding a place to have our district meetings for Saline District,â Smoke said. âI seen that building back there and it said for sale. I thought we got a good price so chief was visiting with the former owner. Next thing you know weâre buying the store. So it all worked out good.â
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has been dealt another lousy hand in his quest to reshape the commercial relationship between the state and its tribal casino operators.
Gov. Stitt’s efforts to squeeze more money out of the state’s tribal operators have so far been thwarted in state and federal courts. (Image: Alex Wong/Getty)
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Stitt had overstepped his authority when he renegotiated compacts with two tribes, the Kialegee Tribal Town and the United Keetoowah Band (UKB) of Cherokee.
To be fair, the Republican governor was unlikely to have been totally blindsided by the court’s decision. In July, it reached the same verdict in relation to two similar compacts Stitt had negotiated, with the Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria tribes, respectively.