![]() ![]() The decision, signed by Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney, means the tribe can open a gaming facility on about 17 acres near the city of Kings Mountain in Cleveland County. “The Nation is very thankful for the department’s decision to take this land into trust, enabling us to achieve the promise of self-determination though economic development,” Chief Bill Harris said in a news release. A call from Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C., came shortly before 4pm, a tribal official told Indianz.Com. ![]() The Catawbas celebrated after learning of the long awaited decision last Thursday. It took nearly seven years but the Catawba Nation has finally won approval to build a casino on ancestral territory in North Carolina, a move that drew a strong condemnation from another tribe with an existing enterprise in the state. ![]()
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