The tribe owns more than 330 off Route 17 in Bridgeville.
The governor is expected to sign a land agreement with leaders of the Wisconsin-based tribe spelling out details of a pact with New York.
That doesn’t seal the deal, though, because the tribe still will need federal approval to operate an off-reservation casino, and there has been no policy change since the Interior secretary in the George W. Bush administration, Dirk Kempthorne, nixed such plans.