TBetween May 1905 and April 1907, the U.S. Supreme Court authorized the Secretary of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. This was to settle outstanding claims made under treaties between the U.S. government and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845. On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, submitted his findings with respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation (encompassing about 90,000 individual claimants). Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19 states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these individuals were living west of the Mississippi River, but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee in 1835.The researcher will find references to about 12,000 Cherokee descendants in this volume. The name index at the back makes it easy to find every such reference. When completed, the series Eastern Cherokee by Blood, 1906-1910 promises to be one of the most important additions to the literature of Native American genealogy in recent years.