Navajo Gaming Honors 186 Team Members for Employee Milestones

Key Facts

• This month The Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise (Navajo Gaming) honored 186 of its total 1,200 team members for reaching significant employment milestones including 15, 10 and 5 years of service for the enterprise.
• Lucia Redhorse, Assistant General Manager of Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort is one of 29 team members honored for honored for 15 years of service with Navajo Gaming Navajo Gaming employs 1,200 people, 85 percent of whom are Navajo.
• Less than 10 years after Navajo Gaming was created by the Navajo Nation and charged with the mission of creating jobs, increasing revenues, and stimulating incremental economic development within the Navajo Nation, the gaming enterprise created over 7,425 direct, indirect and induced jobs with an overall economic output of over a billion dollars.
• • Navajo Gaming has generated an additional 5,296 jobs in other tribal enterprises, such as construction, utilities, ranching, agriculture and retail development Navajo contractors built the largely rural casinos and connected utilities and water lines Navajo artisans supply the gift shops * Navajo Gaming participates in a government-wide initiative to promote education as a means of creating economic development and opportunity on the reservation including tuition reimbursement programs Team members recognized for 15 years of services have worked their way up to a wide variety of position within the enterprise from General Manager and Executive Director of Slots, to Director of Security, Food and Beverage Supervisor and Executive Director of Government Affairs.

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