A compilation of population and personal-property statistics for the Cherokee Nation as printed in The Cherokee Phoenix, June 18, 1828.

In 1824, the legislature of the Cherokee Nation passed a resolution that authorized and appointed eight people to take the census of the Nation. The results of the census, published in The Cherokee Phoenix, were intended to show that the Cherokee were “civilized.”

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Excerpt from “Cherokee phoenix, 1828 June 18,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/6ef686c0c876fba61ce081ccfc65285b.
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Courtesy of Georgia Newspaper Project via Digital Library of Georgia.

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