<h4 class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Between May&nbsp;1905&nbsp;and April 1907, the U.S. Supreme Court authorized the Secretary of the&nbsp;Interior&nbsp;to identify the descendants of Eastern Cherokees entitled to&nbsp;participate in the&nbsp;distribution of more than $1 million in outstanding claims&nbsp;against the U.S.&nbsp;government based upon the Treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. On May 28, 1909,&nbsp;Commissioner Guion Miller, representing the Interior Department,&nbsp;submitted to&nbsp;Congress his findings with respect to 45,857 separate applications&nbsp;for&nbsp;compensation (totaling about 90,000 individual Native American claimants).&nbsp;Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting approximately thirty-nine&nbsp;states and three countries to share in the fund. Ninety percent of the eligible&nbsp;were living west of the Mississippi River.</strong></h4><h4 class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The volume at&nbsp;hand is a verbatim transcription of the concluding and largest portion of the&nbsp;index found in National Archives Record Group 123. (Volume I in this series&nbsp;refers to the Cherokee applicants living east of the Mississippi River in 1909,&nbsp;about 3,200 applicants or 10% of the total named in the index.) The lion's&nbsp;share&nbsp;of the Guion Miller application index refers to Native Americans who were&nbsp;living&nbsp;west of the Mississippi in 1909. For each head of household named in the application, we are given the following additional information: Guion Miller&nbsp;roll number, city and state of residence, and the names of other householders&nbsp;with their ages and relationship to the head. A history of the Guion Miller&nbsp;Commission and several sample applications precede the index of applicants,&nbsp;while an addendum and comprehensive name index conclude the work.</strong></h4><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p><br></p>