How much profit do you think Harrah's at Cherokee made in 2006? If you guessed $478,619,712 then you are correct. The tribe receives 50% of the profit with the other half going to Harrah's I guess. The casino is now getting a $650,000,000 overhaul. Martin Scorsese has been hired to direct the drama Unto These Hills, now starring Bono and Angelina Jolie. Ok, I just made that last sentence up. Instead of ceding a few hundred acres of National Park land to Cherokee for a new high school as was done at Ravensford a few years ago, they should have ceded the land for a new casino, with 50% of the profits going to fund the entire National Park System.