<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The work at hand is a recasting and expansion of Mr. Bowen's 1998 publication&nbsp;by the same name. For the most part, the book is based on National Archives&nbsp;microfilm series M-595, roll #22; however, this expanded edition includes 84&nbsp;pages of census transcriptions that are indecipherable on the microfilm. Thanks&nbsp;to the kind assistance of Archives personnel who copied the corresponding&nbsp;original census pages, the author was able to include them in this edition.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;The census records themselves concern the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians&nbsp;from Cherokee, North Carolina, living on the reservation known as the Qualla&nbsp;Boundary, and were enumerated by various Indian Agents in the employ of the&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;Department of the Interior. Individuals enumerated in the successive&nbsp;censuses&nbsp;are descendants of the Cherokees who were not removed to Indian&nbsp;Territory during the period 1838-1839 in the migration known as the Trail of&nbsp;Tears. Mr. Bowen has&nbsp;transcribed each census in chronological order, and&nbsp;thereunder by household membership. While there is sometimes additional data,&nbsp;information provided in&nbsp;the census almost invariably gives the individual's&nbsp;name, family relationship,&nbsp;age, and sex--information that is critical in any&nbsp;genealogical research. The complete name index at the back of the volume refers&nbsp;to about 9,000 Eastern Cherokee who lived on the Qualla Boundary between 1898&nbsp;and 1914. Finally,&nbsp;persons or institutions who purchased the first edition of&nbsp;this book or the author's two sequel series devoted to Qualla Boundary&nbsp;inhabitants (</strong><em style="color: black;">Eastern Cherokee Census, Cherokee, North Carolina,&nbsp;1915-1922</em><strong style="color: black;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</strong><em style="color: black;">Eastern Cherokee&nbsp;Census, Cherokee, North Carolina,&nbsp;1923-1929</em><strong style="color: black;">)&nbsp;s</strong><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">hould consider adding this reference to their&nbsp;collection.</strong></p><p><br></p>