Cherokee Wedding

Cherokee is a town in Swain County, North Carolina. It is the headquarters for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. It is also a tourist-oriented area, located at the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the site of a Harrah's Cherokee casino. It is located in western North Carolina on the Oconaluftee River and the Qualla Reservation, and on U.S. Highway 441. An outdoor drama depicting the Eastern Band's story, Unto These Hills, is presented annually during the tourist season. The population is about 1/3 Cherokee.

The town is vastly known for its stereotypical representation of Native American's. Men dressed as "chiefs" in long war bonnetts and buckskins either stand or sit in tipi's on the corner and charge up to $5 for a photograph. The town also boasts shops which sell such wares as tomahawks, war bonnetts, dream catchers and other various items which pertain little to the Cherokee heritage.