This is the third and concluding volume in a series of transcriptions of census material for the Eastern Band of Cherokees between 1923 and 1929. Researchers familiar with the work of compiler Jeff Bowen will know that he completed a four-volume series of census records gathered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agent James E. Henderson for the years 1915 to 1922. Like that series, this series of transcriptions is based on Agent Henderson's enumerations; however, the enumerations appearing in the final book (1927-29) were begun by Henderson but concluded (with a few alterations to the notations) by his two Indian Agent successors, R.L. Spalsbury and Ralph P. Stanton. This series marks the first time the 1923 to 1929 Eastern Cherokee data has been made available as a publication.
Eastern Cherokee Census, Cherokee, North Carolina, 1923-1929 concerns the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from Cherokee, North Carolina, living on the reservation known as the Qualla Boundary. Individuals enumerated in the Indian Agent censuses are descendants of the Cherokees who were not removed to Indian Territory during the period 1838 to 1839 in the migration known as the "Trail of Tears." While there is sometimes additional data, information provided in the census almost invariably gives each person's name, family relationship, date of birth, and sex--information that is critical in any genealogical research. In all, researchers will find references to about 3,200 Cherokees who inhabited the Qualla Boundary between 1927 and 1929, bringing the total identified in this series to date to about 10,000.See also
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