The Seneca Niagara Casino is the most prominent building in the Niagara Falls city skyline — a 26-storey tower rising from the former Convention Center site that dominates the view from the streets between downtown and the falls. It is owned and operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians, one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, who retain sovereign rights over parcels of land within the city limits.
The casino itself offers the full range of gaming facilities and is busy year-round, providing an economic anchor to a downtown that had been in severe decline. The presence of the Seneca Nation as a major economic actor in the city creates an unusual relationship between indigenous sovereignty, tribal gaming rights, and the tourism economy. For visitors interested in this dimension of the city's story, the Nation runs cultural programming and there are opportunities to learn about Haudenosaunee history at several points around the region.