Creator
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Cherokee Indian Agency (N.C.)

Publisher
Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Cherokee Indian Agency. (1882-1947), National Archives at Atlanta, http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=642354

Date of Original
1893/1913

Subject
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Cherokee Indian Agency (N.C.)
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Census
Cherokee Indians--Genealogy
Cherokee Indians--Registers

Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434

Medium
census records
records (documents)
texts (document genres)

Type
Text

Description
Census books enumerating Cherokee Indians residing in communities and counties within the Cherokee Indian Reservation, or Qualla Reservation, in western North Carolina. Communities represented include Big Cove, Yellow Hill, Birdtown, Nantahala, Soco, and Wolf Town. Counties represented include Cherokee, Jackson, Swain, and Graham. Information provided for each household may include name of head of household, number of members, number of males and females, number of members between ages 5 and 20 who did not attend school during the year, number of members who could read and use conversational English, number of dwellings built and occupied, number of church members, number of males over age 18, number of females over age 14, and number of school children between ages 6 and 16, among other information.

Metadata URL
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/cherokee-census_search.html

Holding Institution
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Atlanta Branch

Rights