Members of the Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians voted 1,847 to 1,301 to approve the sale of alcohol at the North Carolina tribe's casino.
All but one precinct on the reservation approved the referendum, The Asheville Citizen-Times reported. The vote came amid declining revenues at the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.
“We got to have (alcohol) in order to keep it going,” Loretta Crowe told the paper. “It is necessary. They have got to have it to survive.”
Per capita payments to tribal members dropped as a result of declining revenues at the casino.
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Tribe OKs Cherokee Casino alcohol sales
(The Asheville Citizen-Times 6/5)
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Eastern Cherokees approve alcohol sales at casino
Friday, June 5, 2009
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