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Federal Bill Would Bring South Carolina Tribe’s Casino to North Carolina

The Catawba has proposed constructing a”major brand name” casino — like the Cherokee did together with the Harrahs Cherokee Casino Resort — and is known to have held discussions with the Seminole tribe of Florida, which owns the Hard Rock casino chain.
Graham’s bill seeks to skip the department altogether and possess the tribe’s property and casino approved by an act of Congress.

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“While the [Eastern Cherokee] tribe respects and promotes progress for additional Native American communities, such as South Carolina’s Catawba Indian Nation, the recent filing of a bill in the US Senate to provide North Carolina property into the South Carolina tribe for an off-reservation casino is merely a modern day land grab by the federal authorities of Cherokee aboriginal lands,” it said in an official statement.

‘Modern Day Land Grab’

Lindsey Graham’s bill would bypass the DOI and also have land in North Carolina taken into trust for Catawba Indian Tribe, letting it create a casino, maybe in partnership with all the Seminoles of Florida. (Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty)
The Catawba has chosen the small city of Kings Mountain — some 30 miles from Charlotte and portion of the Charlotte metropolitan area — perhaps due to the tribe’s historical connection to the Battle of Kings Mountain, where the town is named.
The Catawba is the only federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. This standing was restored to the tribe at 1993, 34 years after its sovereignty was stripped under the national government’s Indian termination policy.
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A vital battle in the Revolutionary War, the Catawba fought on the side of Patriot militias against militias loyal to the British Crown in what has been described since the war’s”largest all-American fight.”

Graham is a South Carolina senator advocating for a South Carolina-based tribe to fulfill their long-cherished dream of building a casino at North Carolina. Obviously , the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which operates North Carolina’s two casinos, is hopping mad.

Graham is the type of man we are more accustomed to see introducing anti-gambling legislation — specifically of the sort that would prohibit controlled online gambling in the usa. But this bill is — in its way — as controversial the senator’s flirtation with the Restoration of America’s Wire Act.

The bill that restored federal recognition set aside $50 million to help the tribe acquire more land in areas regarded as their ancestral homelands, which comprises all of South Carolina, plus a handful of counties in North Carolina.

Paradoxically, the true site of the battle was actually just south of the current town, in what is now South Carolina.

Battle of Kings Mountain

Carolina) on Wednesday dropped a bill on Capitol Hill that, if passed, could take land into trust for the Catawba Indian Tribe to the building of a $560 million casino at North Carolina.
But within 12 hours of the bill’s introduction, the Eastern Cherokee branded it”unprecedented in US history,” and”a national authorities bully tactic.”
But the Catawba’s application to have the land for the casino taken into consideration was sitting with the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs since ancient 2014, without a decision coming — and let us face it, it is a thorny one.

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