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Gaming Revenue Fueled Cherokee Success
In 1968, the Tahlequah, Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation's budget was $1.1 million, fully government funded. Last year it was $915 million. The economic powerhouse traces its success to 1968, when the tribe reluctantly entered the gaming industry. Today the 360,000 member tribe and Cherokee Nation Businesses operate enterprises from Tahlequah to Baghdad, Mexico to the United Arab Emirates.
