The 1928 Baker Roll: Records of the Eastern Cherokee Enrolling Commission, 1924-1929 (Dawes Rolls)

An act of Congress of June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 376), established the Eastern Cherokee Enrolling Commission to determine membership for the Eastern Band of Cherokees and to place its tribal lands into Federal trust. Charged with identifying membership for the Eastern Band of Cherokees, the Commission created, collected, and compiled data from older rolls and tribal censuses. Known as the Baker Roll, after Fred A. Baker, these records include indexes, applications, testimony, correspondence, decisions of the Eastern Enrolling Commission, and reports. Note, the roll can include deceased individuals. This is an index to a Cherokee census registry, taken between 1924-1929 with an alphabetical list of Names and roll numbers.