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After the Civil War, laws passed by the North Carolina General Assembly to retain the power of the white community divided the races between \"white\" and \"colored.\" For the state's Native American population, this posed a problem. They could not attend white churches, and they feared attending black churches would cause them to lose their identity as Indians. Their solution was to build their own churches. In the eastern part of the state, missionaries and preachers had converted many Indians to Christianity by the late 1800s. Most of the churches built were either Baptist or Methodist. By the 2000, most of the state's 100,000 Indians follow these two denominations.
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21639
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This article discusses the establishment of the Harrah's Cherokee Casino on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina in 1997. The passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act by Congress in 1988 was the catalyst that allowed the casino to be built. The Cherokees saw gambling as a way to insure financial security for the members of the tribe when competition for tourism in the area was hurting the tribe's economy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 2, Apr 2001,
p133-155, il, por, f
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