Mashpee Wampanoag Perspective

The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian tribe is is continuing to negotiate with some communities Southeastern Massachusetts about its plans for a resort-style casino.

But the plan is generating debate in Middleborough, where the tribe has assembled about 350 acres and offered the town $7 million a year for 10 years to allow the casino there.

Now Middleborough officials have revised a proposed deal with the tribe — asking for at least $100 million more for town services, and replacing the $7 million annual fee the tribe proposed, with a percentage of annual slot machine revenues.

WBUR sat down at the tribe's headquarters in Mashpee yesterday with its chairman, Glenn Marshall, to hear his perspective.