It's a big waste of effort, right? Especially when many of these Tribes are very small, and it doesn't really require all that. So you have two different HR platforms, finance, two CFOs, two IT directors. Just like many other Tribes, there were two distinct sets of everything, systems and people - one for the casino, and then one for everything else. We got the chance to speak with Anthony Kosturos, CFO of Twenty-Nine Palms, at Oracle’s annual CloudWorld event this week in Las Vegas. With its growth ambitions, it decided that a change was needed and that it needed to consolidate onto modern, cloud-based software. However, just a few short years ago, Twenty-Nine Palms was struggling with a huge assortment of different systems to manage its government and business affairs, which were split over two different sites. And it has big plans in the future to expand, through the building of hotels and the creation of its own energy grid. Today, the Tribe has built businesses and governmental operations on its sovereign lands, with Spotlight 29 Casino and the Tribal Government Offices near the city of Coachella, and Tortoise Rock Casino near the town of Twentynine Palms. The Twenty-Nine Palms Reservation was established by the Executive Order of 1895 and expanded in 1979 with an additional parcel in Coachella, California.

Descendants of the Chemehuevi people, the Band has settled at the sacred site known as the Oasis of Mara, located near the town of Twentynine Palms, California. The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians is a federally-recognized Native American tribe located in Southern California.

(Image sourced via Twenty Nine Palms website)

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