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Casinos and consulting? Pandemic spurs tribes to diversify

FILE - A masked blackjack dealer at Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Mashantucket, Conn., demonstrates how newly-installed clear plastic shields that surround gambling tables will work, May 22, 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino for three months in 2020, it reinforced something its owners, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, had known for some time. After decades of relying heavily on gambling revenues to pay the bills, they needed more economic diversification. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)

FILE — A van blocks a main entrance to Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Mashantucket, Conn., May 22, 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino for three months in 2020, it reinforced something its owners, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, had known for some time. After decades of relying heavily on gambling revenues to pay the bills, they needed more economic diversification. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)

FILE — Slot machines at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel, owned and operated by the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, are seen in Battle Creek, Mich., Aug. 5, 2019. The casino shut down in the early months of COVID-19 pandemic, but the financial impact was blunted in part by the tribe's non-gambling businesses, including a firm involved in drone development for the federal government that was deemed "essential." (Nick Buckley/Battle Creek Enquirer via AP, File)

Casinos and consulting? Pandemic spurs tribes to diversify