![]() ![]() The Indians that currently live in Cherokee are a part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. ![]() Cherokee businesses hold “trader’s licenses” and collect a six percent tribal levy on sales. The tourism industry makes up about 75 percent of the tribe’s revenues – the mainstay of their economy. Over the past 100 years, thousands of non-Indians have moved into the area and developed the region, though it’s still home to the Cherokee. The land was purchased by Will Thomas, who is not of Indian descent, in the late 1800s and was presented as a gift to the Cherokee people. It’s also classified as sovereign land held in trust specifically for the Cherokee Indian tribe by the United States Government. The Cherokee Indian Reservation, also known as the Qualla Boundary, now only encompasses 56,000 of those acres. The now sprawling vacation spot was once as heavily forested as other parts of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and once consisted of about 135,000 square miles of land owned by the Cherokee Indian Nation spread out over eight southern states. Cherokee, North Carolina is synonymous with such word s as casinos, gambling, and resort town, but it wasn’t always like that. ![]()
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