Cherokee by Blood: Volume 4, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910, Applications 7251-10170

In 1904 the Eastern Cherokees won a million dollar judgment against the U.S. because of its violations of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. The payments were to go to all living persons who had been members of the Cherokee tribe at the time of the treatie