Per capita payments for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians in North Carolina dropped 21 percent from 2007 to 2010, The Asheville Citizen-Times reports.
The 2007 payment was $9,318, the paper said. Last year, it was $7,347.
The tribe is hoping to boost revenues at Harrah's Cherokee
Casino by adding live card dealers.
Gov. Beverly Purdue
(D) is negotiating but wants a cut of the take.
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N.C. wanted take of all gambling revenue
(The Asheville Citizen-Times 9/6)
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