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Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Employment & Careers, North Carolina The National Indian Gaming Commission is an independent federal agency that is responsible for regulating over 500 gaming organizations that are operated in the United States by close to 250 tribes. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has signed a casino revenue-sharing compact with the Catawba Indian Nation in connection with a soon-to-be-built casino facility in the state. The agreement now awaits the green light from the US Department of the Interior. The Catawba tweeted out the news of the January 22 agreement on Saturday.
A major hurdle for the Catawba Indian Nation's $273 million casino project in Kings Mountain has been cleared. On Friday night, the tribe said it had reached an agreement with state leaders for a. An attempt to money launder over $350,000 at North Carolina’s Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel and Casino led to seven suspects being charged last week and federal officials seizing a total of $2.1 million.
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@ronfritzA Catawba Indian Nation casino planned for North Carolina had a ground-breaking ceremony in mid-July. It now has a tentative date for the first phase of the project.
The tribe, which is based in South Carolina, plans to build and open an “introductory facility” by next fall, according to the Charlotte Observer. Called the “Two Kings Casino Resort in Kings Mountain,” it’s a roughly $300 million, 60,000-square-foot facility located about 35 milies west of Charlotte in Cleveland County.
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Tribal Administrator Elizabeth Harris said the facility will have at least 1,300 slot machines, according to the story in The Observer.
The casino is being contested by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which owns two casinos in western North Carolina and recently announced it has agreed to an amended compact with Gov. Roy Cooper to allow sports betting to move forward at its Harrah’s Cherokee casinos.
Although the North Carolina sports betting bill was passed in July 2019 by the General Assembly and signed into law by Cooper later that month, the process was delayed for more than a year while an amendment to the gaming compact was worked out between the state and the tribe. The coronavirus pandemic has been cited as one reason for the delay, according to a published report.
The law made in-person wagering legal at the Eastern Band of Cherokee casinos in Cherokee and Murphy. The compact still needs signatures from the governor, secretary of state and attorney general before being sent to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and a 45-day public comment period needs to be advertised before it can go into effect, according to the Smoky Mountain News.
Kings Mountain Casino Progress
In March, the U.S. Interior department decided to put the Kings Mountain casino land in trust, allowing for the casino to be developed.
In late October, Cooper's administration received a proposal from the Catawbas on how it would run the casino, according to the Associated Press. The draft could become the basis for a gambling compact that lays out the games that would be offered and revenue the state would receive, the report said.
The Observer said Cooper and the tribe have had discussions about a compact.
Record-Breaking Fiscal 2019 for Indian Gaming
The National Indian Gaming Commission reported last week that tribal casinos had record high revenues in the 2019 fiscal year, with gross gaming revenue at an industry-record $34.6 billion. That was an increase of 2.5% over the $33.7 billion recorded in fiscal 2018.
That was possible because casino reporting for the 2019 fiscal year ended before the coronavirus pandemic forced every tribal gaming operation across the nation to temporarily close. The revenue was determined by 522 casinos submitting independently audited financial reports, comprised of 245 federally recognized tribes in 29 states.
Nearly every NIGC region experienced growth with the Oklahoma City region seeing the largest increase of 7.7%.
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The Catawba Indian Nations’ newly-named North Carolina casino gained more backing from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress this week.
U.S. House members from the Carolinas introduced a bill called the Catawba Indian Nation Lands Act.
The legislation reaffirms a U.S. Interior department decision in March to put the casino land in trust. The designation gives the Catawba Nation the right to develop a casino, the Observer previously reported.
On Aug. 28, tribe officials announced the name of the casino as Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort.
Catawba Nation officials broke ground in July on the casino, which the Eastern Band of the Cherokees continues to contest in court. The Cherokees also operate casinos in Western North Carolina.
The Catawba Nation land is off Interstate 85 in Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, 35 miles from Charlotte.
“These are the lands of not just our ancestors, but also the hundreds of Catawba citizens that reside there today,” Catawba Nation Chief Bill Harris told Native Business Magazine in an article published Friday.
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Members who introduced the bill were Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.; Jim Clyburn, D-S.C.; William Timmons, R-S.C.; Dan Bishop, R-N.C.; Joe Cunningham, D-S.C.; Alma Adams, D-N.C.; David Price, D-N.C.; and Joe Wilson, R-S.C.
The Catawbas also began efforts this summer for a compact from the state of North Carolina that would permit Vegas-style gaming at the casino, the Observer reported at the time. The $273 million casino could open next year, according to the tribe.
‘Two Kings’ casino
The two kings in the casino’s name are King Hagler and the city of Kings Mountain, Harris said in a video on the Catawba Nation Facebook page. Harris called King Hagler, chief of the Catawbas in the mid-1700s, “the greatest leader of our nation.”
According to the tribe’s Aug. 28 Facebook post, “Two Kings also represents our tribe’s long history of working with those around us, which King Hagler made a central part of his leadership.”
Harris said “two kings” also is a gaming name: “A pair of kings is a great hand,” he said in the video.
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Also in late August, the tribe unveiled a casino logo that features a silhouette of King Hagler against an image of Kings Mountain.
The tribe developed the logo with Delaware North, its gaming business partner.
The Cherokees, who have operated casinos since 1997, have called the Catawbas’ efforts “a modern-day land grab.”
The Catawbas say their right to the land stems from a 1993 agreement that gave them federal recognition. The agreement also gave them a “service area” in six N.C. counties, including Mecklenburg and Cleveland, the Observer previously reported.
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Tribe members who live in those counties are eligible for the same federal benefits and services as those on the reservation. Their claim to the casino land is based on that.
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