Cherokee Research at AccessGenealogy

As we build pages at AccessGenealogy/Native, we try to provide information on all the Indian Tribes.  We add complete books on many of the tribes, their tribal history, great information from knowledgeable people on a particular tribe and in general what you ask for from your emails.

This page is the first in what we hope will provide our reader with all pages available on AccessGenealogy/Native for the Cherokee Tribe of Indians. Many of the pages contain only a brief amount on the tribe, use your browser find on page for a search.

• Indian Genealogy, Webmaster

• How to Search (Five Civilized Tribes), Dusty

• Southeastern United States Indian Research, Jackie Matte

• How to Register or get your CDIB Card (Five Civilized Tribes), Webmaster

• How to Write and Manage a Genealogical Query by Kathie M. Donahue, AG

Free Cherokee Pages

Indian Biographies
   Tooan Tuh or Spring Frog, Cherokee Chief
   John Ross, Cherokee Chief
   Sequoyah or George Guess (Gist), Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet
   Tahchee, Cherokee Chief
   Major Ridge, Cherokee Chief
   John Ridge, Cherokee Interpreter

Indian Missions of the Southern States
All of this region, and even as far north as Virginia, was loosely designated as Florida in the earlier period, and was entirely within the sphere of Spanish influence until about the end of the seventeenth. century.

Native American Land Patents
A listing by state and Tribe of land patents.

Cherokee Phoenix Abstracts, 1828
Abstract information that pertained to the Nation or surrounding environs TN, AL, GA, NC, and SC.

An Overland Journey to the West
Journal kept by B. B. Cannon, Conductor of a party of Emigrating Cherokee Indians, put in his charge at the Cherokee Agency East, by Gen. N. Smith, Superintendent of Cherokee Removals, on the 13th day of October, 1837.

Cherokee Cessions
Proposals Made by certain Cherokee Indians, for the Cession of their Lands to the United States

Cherokee Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements
Indian Treaties 1778-1883 were one of the ways the United States Government used to remove the Indian population from their Native Soil.
   Cherokee

Recollections of My Life, by Walter Neel
He spent most most of his adult life in Oklahoma. He was known as the unofficial mayor of Peggs. He had very little education and you can tell that by the way he wrote.
   Gunfight at Whitmire School
   Ezekiel "Zeke" Proctor
   Death at the Mill
   Bee Trouble, Jasper Newton "Tuck" Bee
   The Trial and Goingsnake Massacre

Eastern and Eastern Band of Cherokee of North Carolina
The statistics and condition of the Indians given in the present bulletin, as provided in the census law of March 1, 1889, show the status of the Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina, with incidental mention of the Eastern Cherokees. These Indians are taxed, have developed into good citizens of the United States, and vote in North Carolina.
   Soldiers of the Eastern Band

Cherokee Online Records
This is a listing of all the online records we found for the Cherokee Tribe

Cherokee Rolls and Census

The following rolls are specific to the Cherokee Indian Tribe, the Dawes Final roll includes the 4 other civilized tribes.
   Dawes Final Roll Index
   Dawes Final Roll
   Baker Roll
   Guion Miller Roll
   Kern Clifton Roll (Cherokee Freedmen)
   Reservation Roll
   Old Settlers Roll
   Wallace Roll (Cherokee Freedmen)

Enrollment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1896
Applications from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee Area Office, Relating to the Enrollment of the Five Civilized Tribes under the Act of 1896

Cherokee Census, 1880
The census of 1880 was authorized by an act of the Cherokee National Council Senate Bill No. 33 on December 1, 1879.

Indians in the 11th Census (1890) of the United States
Prior to 1846 there was no general law for taking a census of the Indians within the United States, Thomas Jefferson in 1782 gave a careful analysis of the location of tribes and their numbers in the United States, which then comprised only the country east of the Mississippi and north of the Floridas.

US Indian Census Schedules 1885-1940

Mailing Lists, Query Lists and Message Boards

Indian Mailing Lists
A great place to start your research.  There are many lists specific to a tribe and there is one for each state and Canada. You will meet people who have been searching for years, know all the tricks and rocks to look under, places they hid, and how to make your search worthwhile. If you are new to Indian Genealogy, I recommend NA-NEWBIES, you will find others like yourself who are just starting on the search of a lifetime.

Cherokee Indian Queries  Read  Post

Books

Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee
The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees.

Cherokee Nation of Indians, by Charles C. Royce
The following monograph on the history of the Cherokees, with its accompanying maps, is given as an illustration of the character of the work in its treatment of each of the Indian tribes.

History of the Cherokee Indians, by Emmet Starr
Originally published in 1921, History of the Cherokee Indians, a reference originally created "for the purpose of perpetuating some of the facts relative to the Cherokee tribe, that might otherwise be lost," in the words of author Emmet Starr.
   Cherokee Biographies
   Cherokee Genealogies
   Keetoowah Society
   Interpreting the Starr Genealogies

Cherokee of the Smoky Mountains, by Horace Kephart
An in depth look into the history and origin of the Cherokees of the Smoky Mountains

A Century of Dishonor
The great difficulty with the Indian problem is not with the Indian, but with the Government and people of the United States. Instead of a liberal and far-sighted policy looking to the education and civilization and possible citizenship of the Indian tribes, we have suffered these people to remain as savages, for whose future we have had no adequate care, and to the consideration of whose present state the Government has only been moved when pressed by some present danger.
   Cherokee Indian Tribe

Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell
When that part of America which extends westward from the Atlantic to the Mississippi was discovered by Europeans it was occupied by numerous tribes, speaking distinct languages, with many dialects. And as the habitations and other structures erected by the widely scattered tribes differed in form, size, and the material of which they were constructed, and presented many interesting charac­teristics, so did the cemeteries and forms of burial vary in distant parts of the country.
   The Cherokee

Tribal Migrations East of the Mississippi, by J.W. Powell
The map, as its title implies, includes the entire North American continent north of Mexico, but in the present paper, only that portion bordering on the lower Mississippi, and eastward to the Atlantic coast, will be considered.

Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, by Frederick W. Hodge
During the early exploration and settlement of North America, a multitude of Indian tribes were encountered, having diverse customs and languages. Lack of knowledge of the aborigines and of their languages led to many curious errors on the part of the early explorers and settlers
   Cherokee Indian Tribe History
   Cherokee Indian Chiefs, Part 1
   Cherokee Indian Chiefs and Leaders
   Cherokee Indian Settlements
   Cherokee Indian Bands, Gens and Clans

Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton
From the date of its first appearance in 1891 the Powell map of "Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico" has proved of the widest utility. It has been reissued several times and copied into numerous publications. There has, however, been almost equal need of a map giving the location of the tribes under the several families.
   Cherokee Indians of Tennessee

Cherokee Indian Tribe Photos
When first discovered, the Cherokee were occupying the mountainous country about the headwaters of the Tennessee River and portions of Georgia and South Carolina, up to 1830. They form a family by themselves, supposed, however, to be somewhat remotely connected with the Great Iroquois family. They call themselves in their language Tsaraghee.

Indian Races of North and South America, by Charles DeWolf Brownell
In describing the adventures and proceedings of the pioneers in the settlement and civilization of the Western Continent, the interesting nature of the narrative may have led the author, in some instances, away from the immediate object of his attention.
   Upper and Lower Cherokee
   Removal of the Cherokee Indians West of the Mississippi

The Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, by William E. Connelley
Preserving the records of families is at least as worth while as keeping record of live stock. These biographies also have a great value in interpreting the broader movements described in the general history.
   The Cherokee Indians

Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, by John Wesley Powell
The terms “family” and “stock” are here applied interchangeably to a group of languages that are supposed to be cognate.
   Iroquoian Family

Sign Language Among North American Indians
As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary.

 Indian Research

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