“We tried to make it family-friendly,” casino general manger Peter Riverso said. An expansion of seating at the Legends of Fire Sports Bar will open soon. It also tripled the size of the gift shop and included a new Woodlands Restaurant, which is open 24 hours a day. It also increased the seating at the Pend Oreille Pavilion Entertainment from 500 to 1,200 in a theater-style setting. The expansion cost about $13 million and increased the capacity of the River’s Edge Buffet, which costs $11.95 per person, to 280. “Some of them remember living in 8-by-5-foot shacks. “If you could have seen the looks on the elders’ faces,” said Curt Holmes, vice chairman of the Kalispel Tribe.

Northern Quest and tribal officials had a private dedication Saturday so that tribal members could see the new digs before they opened to the public in another ceremony Sunday. Others show weathered tribal elders posing near wooden shacks. One young man sits atop a horse on a mountain peak. Inside the large doors, on the plush new carpet and under the trendy lights at the 60,000-square-foot addition to Northern Quest Casino, stands a kiosk displaying historical photographs of Kalispel tribal members.

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