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    The Qualla Boundary or The Qualla is territory held as a land trust by the United States government for the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee...
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  • rights. The history of the Eastern Band closely follows that of the Qualla Boundary, a land trust made up of an area of their original territory. When...
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    within what is now Swain County the land area that became known the "Qualla Boundary" land trust. They are the only federally recognized tribe in North...
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    Jackson counties in Western North Carolina, United States, within the Qualla Boundary land trust. Cherokee is located in the Oconaluftee River Valley around...
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    The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is located on land known as the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina. They are mostly descendants of ancestors...
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    federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is based at Qualla Boundary, land that consists of territory in both Jackson and neighboring Swain...
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  • Cherokee Indians (EBCI) to take control of the schools located on the Qualla Boundary under the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1987 started a wave of...
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    Mingo Falls is a 120 ft (37 m) high waterfall located in the Qualla Boundary—a land trust of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians—near the town of Cherokee...
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    Michell Hicks (category People from the Qualla Boundary)
    well-being of his tribe and community. Hicks was born and raised on the Qualla Boundary, the land trust of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He has a bachelor's...
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    the Middle dialect (Kituwah) is spoken by the Eastern Band on the Qualla Boundary, and retains ~200 speakers. The Overhill, or Western, dialect is spoken...
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    Portions of the Qualla Boundary are located in Cherokee County. These are non-contiguous and are separate from the main part of the Qualla Boundary, which is...
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    Qualla Boundary are located in Graham County. These sections of the Qualla Boundary are non-contiguous from the primary part of the Qualla Boundary located...
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    does not legalize cannabis in all of North Carolina, it makes the Qualla Boundary, the EBCI's land trust, the first location in the state in which cannabis...
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    preserve the mound. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, based on Qualla Boundary, is the only federally recognized tribe in North Carolina. It negotiated...
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    be used by the Cherokee. Much of this property is now included in Qualla Boundary, the territory of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee...
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    Harrah's Cherokee (category Qualla Boundary)
    Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort is a casino and hotel on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee...
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    capital is at Cherokee, North Carolina, in the tribally-controlled Qualla Boundary. Hot Springs, Arkansas c. 1837–1866 After Removal from their Alabama-Georgia...
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    is at U.S. Route 441 (US 441) on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians...
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  • the Eastern Band Cherokee Constitution and the establishment of the Qualla Boundary. Born around 1836, Welch married Mary Lee McKee, granddaughter of Gideon...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Marijuana Legalization Measure
    to regulate cannabis supersedes North Carolina law, but only on the Qualla Boundary, the tribe's land trust, where it has authority. Off of tribal land...
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    Significant numbers of Cherokee speakers of all ages still populate the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina and several counties within the Cherokee...
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    the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ —pronounced Tsalagi or Cha-la-gee) people of the Qualla Boundary and the southeastern United States; those who relocated voluntarily...
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  • established a Cherokee reserve for the tribe's use at what is now the Qualla Boundary, the territory of the federally recognized tribe in North Carolina...
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    Harrah's Cherokee Valley River (category Qualla Boundary)
    Harrah's Cherokee Valley River is a casino and hotel on the Qualla Boundary in Murphy, North Carolina. It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians...
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    broadens from Smokemont in the north to the southern tip of the Qualla Boundary. The Qualla Boundary, commonly referred to as Cherokee, North Carolina, comprises...
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    Places in 1980. In 1819, the Cherokee were forcibly relocated to the Qualla Boundary, which today is the home the federally recognized tribe of the Eastern...
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    the edge of Oconaluftee River along the Raven Fork tributary on the Qualla Boundary. Its current elevation is 2,012 feet. Beginning as a quaint factory...
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    Oconaluftee Indian Village (category Qualla Boundary)
    The Oconaluftee Indian Village is a replica of an 18th-century eastern Cherokee community founded in 1952 and located along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee...
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    of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) have a reserve in this region known as Qualla Boundary; it is situated adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park...
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  • man named Cowney who is grappling with his identity as he leaves the Qualla Boundary during the summer of 1942 to work at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville...
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