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Ernie Stevens Jr., chairman of the Indian Gaming Association for nearly 25 years, has died at age 66.

During his leadership, tribal gaming revenues grew from $11 billion to a record $43.9 billion.

Leaders across Indian Country, including former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, are mourning his passing.

Indian Country is mourning the loss of Ernie Stevens Jr., a prominent member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, who walked on at the age of 66, his family announced Sept. 26.

Stevens was the current chairman of the Indian Gaming Association (IGA), a position he held for nearly 25 years. The IGA is a national nonprofit organization with a mission of protecting and preserving tribal sovereignty through economic self-sufficiency from gaming and other forms of

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