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Seneca Gaming Corporation (SGC) is a wholly owned, tribally chartered corporation of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Nation) which operates all of the Nation’s Class III gaming operations in Western New York. Seneca Gaming Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Seneca Niagara Falls Gaming Corporation (SNFGC), Seneca Territory Gaming Corporation (STGC), and Seneca Erie Gaming Corporation (SEGC), operates Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York, Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino in Salamanca, New York, and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in Buffalo, New York.

The Seneca people have lived in the Western part of New York State since time immemorial and consider the area their aboriginal home. After preserving two territories — or reservations — in Western New York, the Seneca people developed their own constitution and elective form of government, officially becoming the Seneca Nation of Indians in 1848.

In 2002, the Nation entered into the Nation-State Gaming Compact with New York State, which granted the Nation the exclusive right to build and operate three Class III gaming facilities in Western New York.

Seneca Gaming Corporation was chartered in August 2002 to manage the Nation’s gaming operations. Seneca Niagara Falls Gaming Corporation was also chartered at this time, and Seneca Niagara Casino opened its doors on December 31, 2002. SNFGC opened a luxury hotel, the 26-story Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, on December 30, 2005.

Seneca Territory Gaming Corporation was chartered in August 2003 to manage the Nation’s second Class III gaming operation. On May 1, 2004, Seneca Allegany Casino officially opened for business. STGC opened the Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino on March 30, 2007.

In September 2003, Seneca Erie Gaming Corporation was chartered for the purpose of managing the Nation’s third gaming operation permitted under the Compact. In October 2005, the Nation acquired 9 acres of land in the Inner Harbor area of downtown Buffalo and designated the land as its preferred site for constructing a Class III gaming facility. On July 3, 2007, SEGC opened a temporary Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino on the nine-acre territory. It underwent two expansion projects in 2008 and 2010. In March 2012, the Seneca Nation of Indians and Seneca Gaming Corporation unveiled a re-designed $130 million Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino on the Nation’s territory in downtown Buffalo. The property celebrated an official grand opening on August 27, 2013.

BUFFALO, July 3 — A day after receiving federal approval, the Seneca Indian Nation opened a temporary 5,000-square-foot casino on Tuesday with 124 slot machines in downtown Buffalo.

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The long-delayed move, which has been opposed by many business and political leaders here, sets the stage for a legal showdown over whether the tribe’s sovereignty gives it the right to run a casino on its nonreservation land here.

Since its conception in 2002, the Seneca’s plan for a casino on a nine-acre plot here has been a lightning rod for those who contend that a gambling operation downtown, despite the city’s sagging economy, will stifle other kinds of development and inflict further harm.

Supporters, on the other hand, say the $125 million casino with a 100,000-square-foot gambling floor and restaurants will add hundreds of jobs and attract out-of-state gamblers to a beleaguered part of the city and complement other development plans.

The Seneca tribe already runs two casinos, one in Niagara Falls and another on its reservation south of Buffalo. The third casino, which is essentially a marker until the grander plan is realized, means that the Senecas have met the December 2007 deadline set in an agreement with New York State that lets the tribe run three gambling operations.

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In January, a federal judge ordered the National Indian Gaming Commission to reconsider its initial decision on the 2002 agreement. The agency confirmed its approval in a letter to the Seneca Gaming Corporation on Monday.

“It’s a great day for the Seneca nation, it’s a great day for the Seneca Gaming Corporation and it’s a great day for the City of Buffalo,” said a spokesman for the corporation, Philip J. Pantano. Opponents plan to return to federal court to challenge the tribe’s right to open the casino. They say that in giving its approval on Monday the federal commission misinterpreted a 1990 law that settled a long-running land dispute with the Seneca in upstate New York. One author of the law, the Seneca Settlement Act, said it was never intended to give the tribe the right to run casinos.

“I think the National Indian Gaming Commission is dominated by pro-gambling interests,” said John J. LaFalce, a former Democratic congressman who helped write the law. “But it escapes the essential issue of whether the Seneca Settlement Act contemplated Indian gaming, which it did not. That’s an issue that has to be decided by the courts.”

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Indeed, a broad coalition of Buffalo’s political, business and cultural leaders plan to go to federal court next week to challenge the Seneca’s right to run a casino on its property in Buffalo.

“We are now poised to go to court without procedural impediments to discuss land status issues, whether it’s sovereign territory and whether it is Indian land,” said Joseph M. Finnerty, the lawyer who is coordinating the state and federal lawsuits opposing the casino. “We feel just as confident today that we are right on those issues and will win on these issues.”

“I’d say to the patrons at the temporary casino, ‘Don’t get too comfortable,’ ” Mr. Finnerty said.

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By Tuesday evening, the parking lot on the site was full. Inside the small, blue metal building bearing the word “Casino” in simple white lettering, the smell of cigarette smoke hung in the warm, muggy air of the single public room.

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One concession stand offered hot dogs, cold sandwiches and baked goods, but no alcohol was being served. Still, every machine was in play, with short lines at a few.

“It’s ridiculous,” said Loretta Tozzo of Buffalo, who spent about an hour at the slots. “You can’t breathe in there. They should have waited to open something better.”

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As she left, Mrs. Tozzo said she and her husband, Louis, were headed to Niagara Falls, about 20 miles away, to the Seneca-run casino there.