NORTH* CAROLINA
Cherokees in Cherokee
Inrlo Sam
мяуя
Ihoro are
11»
Indians in
Robeson or
Регион,
lint
ио
count tliou*
sands: wo oven have them in W a
ко.
Hi, BILL SII%RPF
An alert uibiaibn, Mr» Lucy W’ad-
Thi St
ли
lo*
Cherokee» in Cherokee Count)
says: "This i» a natural cm
of the name. But didn't you know that
the Cherokee Reservation lie» in
Swain. Jackson, and Haywood coun¬
ties?"
It also lie» in Cherokee and Graham
counties. The reservation usually shown
on maps docs indeed include only
Swain. Jackson, and a corner of Hay¬
wood. But when Colonel I bonus was
buying up private land for the dis¬
possessed tribe, he bought it in tracts,
and purchase» included fragment» not
contiguous with the present Qualla
Boundary. These include some acreage
in Cherokee County on which still live
24 Indian» In Graham. 209 Indian»
are counted. These Cherokee» have the
»amc rights and privilege» a. do their
Count», though th
cate o»er 20.000 an
Thereby hangs a
cal hole talc.
Those Indians scattered around in
not all Cherokee» — maybe none of
llscm arc. A few may belong lo a
traditional tribe, but there'» a good
chance that moil of them have un¬
identifiable tribal backgrounds.
There's a question, for instance, as
to who the 503 Warren Indians arc;
likewise the 15 listed in Rockingham,
who locally arc called "Goins Indians."
Up until the last (1950) census, the
Robeson County Indians were listed
in the return». A pro-
lime. The census explains:
are person* of mixed Indian blood if
the proportion of Indian blood is one-
fourth or
пине,
or i/ they are regarded
as Indian i In the community." The
italics are our».
Now some more: "In 1950, for the
first time, person.» of mixed white.
*d Indian ancestry living in
there arc 503 Indian» listed m Warren
County. 55 in Onslow Count). 20 m
Nash. 17 in New Hanover, ar
33 in Wake, though I've never seen
one here.
None in Robeson
And it might also surprise you to
find that not
и
single solitary Indian
gorics 'Other race»' and 'a
arc not classified as white. Negro of In-
dun These groups arc
separately, but the) are
r' total The
are bctfya%ctVS b,
names, such at Croalan,' Jackson
White,' and Wc-tott'."
Under this sort of interpretation, the
Kobe von Indian, were put in the "all
other" list, and the tame thing teems
to have happened to the Person» In¬
dians.
But no such change was made in
the Warren census, nor in the case of
some others apparently of Indian ori¬
gin. That suils me all right. The illogi¬
cal part of it is that there ha» been
inter-marriage between the Indians of
Rob: son. Person, and Warren. So it
looks as if a Warren Indian who
married a Robeson Indian and rc-
Ю
Robeson County got in the
whereat a
Robeson Indun 12 to Warren
Abo included
Non; Figures on map
number of Indians tiffed in
routines by the U. S. Census.
i>H
What probably
when the return» came in from — say
— Craven, which list» only 8 Indian»,
nobody in the bureau thought it worth¬
while to check back to see if these
THE STATE. JUKI 4. t*SS
