Living persons who were listed on the final rolls of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (Dawes Commission Rolls) that were approved and descendants of these persons.Today, individuals of Cherokee ancestry fall into the following categories:
Others went into the Appalachian Mountains to escape being moved west and many of their descendants may still live there now. A number remained in the southeast and gathered in North Carolina where they purchased land and continued to live. During the 1830's and 1840's, the period covered by the Indian Removal Act, many Cherokees were moved west to a territory that is now the State of Oklahoma. About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or 'Indian Nation' that lived in the southeast part of what is now the United States.
