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A Safe Haven in the Carolinas: Eastern Band of Cherokees Create Memory-Care Unit
For the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in Cherokee, North Carolina, the soon-to-open memory-care unit of the Tsali Care nursing facility will meet a crucial need, providing tribal members suffering from dementia with a safe environment tailored to them. Indian Country Today Media Network spoke with David Hunt, Tsali Care Center’s administrator, about the project.  Eastern Band of Cherokee5/23/2012
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Amended Cherokee casino pact signed by Hicks, Perdue
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians signed Tuesday an updated edition to its new agreement to allow live-dealer poker and...
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Fate of live dealers hinges on state House
(North Carolina) -- The quest to bring live table games to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino faces a final political hurdle. Both the Governor and N.C. Senate have given...
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Live gaming could be coming to Harrah's Casino
(North Carolina) -- Senators in the N.C. General Assembly last week voted 33-14 in favor of a gambling compact brokered by Governor Bev Perdue and The Eastern Band of...
5/22/2012
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Gaming compact passes NC Senate
(North Carolina) -- Live table games are one step closer to reality at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel. The North Carolina Senate approved a bill on Wednesday...
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Perdue, Cherokee chief sign amended gambling pact
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have amended their new agreement to allow live dealer games at the tribe's western...
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Perdue, Cherokee ink new tribal gaming compact
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue has signed a revised deal with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that will allow the tribe to offer live dealers at its casinos.
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Perdue, Eastern Band sign amended compact to allow live dealer gambling at NC casino
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have amended their new agreement to allow live dealer games at the tribe's western...
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Aquinnah present plans for casino
(Massachusetts) -- The Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah on Tuesday unveiled its plans for a $167-million tribal casino in Southeastern Massachusetts that would include a...
5/21/2012
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Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse opens at Harrah’s Cherokee
(North Carolina) -- Ruth’s Chris Steak House opens its doors on Monday, May 21 to guests of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel in Cherokee, NC.
5/19/2012
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North Carolina Senate Votes To Make Poker Live At Cherokee Casino
(North Carolina) -- Earlier this week, the North Carolina Senate took up discussion on whether to allow the only casino located in the state, Harrah’s Cherokee...
5/16/2012
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Live-dealer gaming moves forward
(North Carolina) -- The state Senate has approved a measure allowing live dealers at table games in Indian casinos in North Carolina. The gaming compact was one of the...
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N.C. Senate approves measure to expand gambling on Cherokee tribal lands
(North Carolina) -- The Senate waived the rules to approve legislation on the same day it was introduced that authorizes a new gaming compact negotiated by Gov. Bev...
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NC Senate Takes Up Cherokee Casino Card Games
(North Carolina) -- North Carolina lawmakers are moving to change gambling laws and allow the state’s only casino to offer live dealer poker and blackjack games.
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NC Senate takes up Cherokee casino card games bill
(North Carolina) -- North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday began weighing whether to allow the state's only casino to allow card games featuring human dealers instead...
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Cherokee crafts plans for tree-top canopy walk and family adventure park
(North Carolina) -- The next five years could include the construction of an adventure park, a canopy walk and another casino for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,...
5/9/2012
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Logjam broken on live dealers for Cherokee, but not a done deal yet
(North Carolina) -- A political impasse over live dealers and table games at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino has been resolved, but the tribe still has some heavy lifting...
4/26/2012
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Two signs to Cherokee after all: Tribe rents billboard
(North Carolina) -- The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is taking matters into its own hands in the tug-of-war over the best route to Cherokee.
4/25/2012
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Harrah's Cherokee Casino officials: New rotunda will rival Vegas attractions
(North Carolina) -- Harrah’s Cherokee Casino has a new front door. The rotunda space features eight towering columns lit from inside that give an artistic...
4/3/2012
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Cherokee card dealer pitch headed back to legislature
(North Carolina) -- Lawmakers are likely to consider an agreement in the upcoming legislative short session that would allow Las Vegas-style card dealers at Harrah...
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Tribal members argue legality of referendum
(North Carolina) -- Over 40 EBCI tribal members entered the Council Chambers on Tuesday, April 3 to hand deliver a letter to Principal Chief Michell Hicks asking for a...
3/28/2012
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Cherokee and Governor massage live dealers deal
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and leaders from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have headed back to their respective sides of the negotiating tables to tweak...
2/6/2012
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Harrah's Cherokee casino transforms from gambling stop to full-scale resort
(North Carolina) -- Mike Boyle finished signing the paperwork, held out his hand and watched as $1,440 in cash was counted out to him by a Harrah’s Cherokee Casino...
2/1/2012
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North Carolina Closes In On Las Vegas Style Gambling
(North Carolina) -- A new gambling compact with the Cherokee Indian tribe in North Carolina could bring poker and other Las Vegas-style gaming to the state’s only...
1/29/2012
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Gambling compact inches toward reality
(North Carolina) -- Two months after Gov. Bev Perdue trumpeted a new gambling compact with the state's Cherokee Indians, live blackjack and poker are inching closer...
1/25/2012
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Sullied by sewer back-ups, Cherokee resident files suit against tribe
(North Carolina) -- A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is suing the tribe over sewage overflows onto her property, which she says poses a health threat to...
12/18/2011
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A Safe Haven in the Carolinas: Eastern Band of Cherokees Create Memory-Care Unit
(North Carolina) -- For the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in Cherokee, North Carolina, the soon-to-open memory-care unit of the Tsali Care nursing facility...
12/6/2011
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LETTER: Cherokee table games mean economic boost
(North Carolina) -- Your Dec. 1 editorial "Loaded deck" was seriously misconceived. You dismiss the jobs and income the Cherokee casino has brought to a...
12/4/2011
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NC Cherokee deal doesn't mean dealers just yet
(North Carolina) -- A signed agreement between Gov. Beverly Perdue and North Carolina's Cherokee Indians doesn't mean scores of live blackjack and poker dealers...
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NC Legislature’s lawyers question tribal deal
(North Carolina) -- Attorneys at the North Carolina Legislature on Friday questioned two key portions of the new agreement between Gov. Beverly Perdue and the state...
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No ratification of casino just yet
(North Carolina) -- Ratification of the new casino compact between the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and Gov. Bev Perdue didn’t occur during this past week...
12/2/2011
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NC legislative attorneys have questions, concerns about new tribal casino agreement
(North Carolina) -- Attorneys at the North Carolina Legislature are questioning two key portions of the new agreement between Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Eastern Band of...
12/1/2011
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EBCI signs new gaming compact with North Carolina
(North Carolina) -- The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, based in Cherokee, N.C., finalized an agreement with North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue on Nov. 28 to allow...
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Harrah’s Casino one step closer to live gambling
(North Carolina) -- After a lengthy debate between Governor Beverly Perdue and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a new 30-year gaming compact has been developed and...
11/30/2011
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Casino, governor sign gaming pact
(North Carolina) -- The leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have reached an agreement that will bring live table gaming to the casino. In addition, the tribe...
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Cherokee signs deal with Governor to bring live table games to Harrah’s
(North Carolina) -- After years of lobbying and months of hard negotiating, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians sealed a deal with Gov. Beverly Perdue this week to...
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Editorial: The deal - Will gaming pact lead to more North Carolina casinos?
(North Carolina) -- Is this another step down a slippery slope or an isolated, one-of-a-kind aberration? We should know soon. Gov. Bev Perdue has negotiated a deal with...
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OP/ED: Loaded deck
(North Carolina) -- Time and again, as the agreement to allow live dealers at the casino of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians was formulated, that four-letter...
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Tribe, State reach compact agreement
(North Carolina) -- Table games may be on the way to Cherokee. Gov. Bev Perdue and Principal Chief Michell Hicks have come to an agreement on a new gaming compact...
11/29/2011
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Live dealers may bring casino here
(North Carolina) -- Because an agreement to allow live dealers and table games has been reached between the governor and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for Harrah...
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North Carolina Governor Approves Live Card Dealers at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue signed an agreement yesterday allowing Las Vegas-style card dealers and table games at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, owned by the...
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Sweepstakes parlor owners hope to benefit from Cherokee deal
(North Carolina) -- As they battle to overturn a state ban on their video-style games, owners of Internet sweepstakes parlors are now eying a proposed casino deal...
11/28/2011
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Cherokee casino gets card dealers / Governor, tribe sign 30-year pact for casino
(North Carolina) -- Harrah’s Cherokee Casino will soon have Las Vegas-style card dealers under an agreement with Gov. Bev Perdue signed on Monday. Lawmakers must...
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Cherokees, NC governor sign amended gambling deal
(North Carolina) -- North Carolina's Cherokee Indians and Gov. Beverly Perdue finalized an agreement Monday to allow live card dealers at the tribe's casino in...
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Cherokees, NC governor sign gambling deal
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Beverly Perdue and North Carolina's Cherokee tribe have reached an agreement to allow live card dealers at the tribe's casino in the...
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Governor and Cherokee tribal leaders reach deal to expand gaming
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have reached an agreement expanding the Cherokee’s gaming enterprises.
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N.C. governor and Cherokee sign compact to allow live gaming and share revenue with WNC schools
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have reached an agreement that will inject additional funding directly into...
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New compact with Cherokee would create 400 jobs
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have reached an agreement that would add live dealers to the casino operated by...
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New games on the table
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and the state's Cherokee Indians signed a landmark compact Monday to sanction Las Vegas-style card games at the tribe's...
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Perdue signs Cherokee gaming expansion deal
(North Carolina) -- Lawmakers not officially have one more item on their plate for this late-November legislative session. Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, announced today...
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State, Cherokees reach accord
(North Carolina) -- Gov. Bev Perdue and the state's Cherokee Indians signed a landmark compact Monday to sanction Las Vegas-style card games at the tribe's...
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