My wish is to return to the Qualla Reservation and to return the Qualla Paddle to the Qualla People to be preserved as part of their Heritage. If you have any information or contacts, please submit for forwarding. It is a page of pointers to citations for dictionaries, descriptive grammars, pedagogic materials collections of bilingual narratives, and tapes, among others. This large resource is arranged alphabetically by language group, and also contains many cross references. Over 100 language groups are included, from Abenaki to Yukon languages.
Citations contain bibliographic information and are thoroughly annotated.
The moony was to be equally divided among all living persons, or descendants of deceased members, who had been members of the Eastern Cherokee nation at the time of the treaties. In 1835, prior to the removal of the Cherokee to the west, the Cherokee lived in southeastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, northwest Georgia, and northwest Alabama. Many of the Cherokee were forcibly moved to land west of Fort Gibson, in what is now called Arkansas. They later were moved further west of Fort Gibson to present-day Oklahoma. In his report in 1909, Guion Miller, the enrolling agent, certified that almost 46,000 separate applications had been filed representing about 90,000 individual claimants.