This register recorded census-like data on Cherokee Indian family groups including the names of heads of families who emigrated in 1834, the dates of arrival, and statistics on the number and ages of family members.
More than 70,000 members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes were removed from their lands between Tennessee and Louisiana by the 1830 Indian Removal Act. They were relocated west of the Mississippi River. The Indians lost millions of acres of land, and more than 10,000 people died during the nearly 1,000-mile march.
