Mealey's (March 16, 2017, 2:29 PM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington federal judge on March 15 shot down an Indian tribe’s bid to establish a gaming operation when he found that Congress did not clearly establish that it intended to recognize the tribe as an “Indian tribe” under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) and that the Department of the Interior (DOI) reasonably held that only tribes recognized by the secretary of the Interior under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act are entitled to engage in gaming under the IGRA (Frank’s Landing Indian Community v. National Indian Gaming Commission, et al., No. 15-5828, W.D. Wash., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37218)....