The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the others being the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, both based in Oklahoma. The Qualla Boundary is not technically a reservation because the tribe owns the land outright. They gained federal recognition as a tribe in the 20th century.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are primarily the descendants of those persons listed on the 1925 Baker Rolls of Cherokee Indians. The EBCI also own, hold, or maintain additional lands in the vicinity, and as far away as 100 miles (160 km) from the Qualla Boundary. When they reorganized as a tribe, they had to buy back the land from the US government. The history of the Eastern Band closely follows that of the Qualla Boundary, a land trust made up of an area of their original territory. Those Cherokee remaining in the East were to give up tribal Cherokee citizenship and to assimilate. They are descended from the small group of 800–1000 Cherokee who remained in the Eastern United States after the US military, under the Indian Removal Act, moved the other 15,000 Cherokee to west of the Mississippi River in the late 1830s, to Indian Territory. We ended up leaving early and driving an hour to the other property.The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ( EBCI), ( Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ, Tsalagiyi Detsadanilvgi) is a federally recognized Indian Tribe based in Western North Carolina in the United States. The food court only consisted of fast food, we ate Panda Express, which was pretty inexpensive and we got a lot of food for our money! We probably won't visit again until they make some expansions and add a bar on the casino floor. What a huge inconvenience, especially since they've just watched you get a drink at the bar. Then security will see you come from the bar where they card you again to go back onto the gaming floor. If you want to get a drink yourself instead of waiting for a server (who are hard to find) you have to leave the gaming floor go to the only bar, get carded. The hotel was really nice! The rooms were nice, wasn't expecting the room to be as dirty as it was since the hotel is so new! The casino itself is very small and not much games to choose from. We figured we would give this new one a try since we enjoyed the other one so much. We travel to Cherokee quite often to play at Harrahs and love that it's so big and so many different choices in gaming.

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