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The Eastern Band of Cherokee is trying to stop the Catawba Tribe from building a casino in Kings Mountain.
The town of Cherokee in western North Carolina has about 2,000 people. There are a few strips malls, a museum dedicated to the history of the tribe.
And there’s a casino. It’s a really big casino that’s getting bigger.
The casino is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and managed by Harrah’s. It towers 21 stories above the town, and there’s more coming. There are 700 new rooms under construction along with 83,000-square feet of convention space.
December 15, 2020
In the United States and a federal judge has reportedly agreed to expedite a lawsuit the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians filed against the Catawba Indian Nation earlier this year in an attempt to stop the latter’s effort to bring a $273 million casino resort to North Carolina.
According to a Monday report from The Charlotte Observer newspaper, the Catawba Indian Nation is hoping to open the first phase of its Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort on a 16.5-acre plot of land near the small community of Kings Mountain by next autumn complete with a gaming floor offering at least 1,300 slots. But, the federally-recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has purportedly long been against this plan due to the fact that it runs North Carolina’s only existing pair of casinos in the impressive Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and smaller Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel.