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Th Carolina upon the reservation and in the outlying settlements were officially reported to number 1,479

Date of account: Material collected chiefly 1887-1890; published 1900
Source: Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Reference: Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology · selected passage 21
Rights: public_domain
Language: English with Cherokee names and material translated from oral testimony
Translation: Collected and edited by James Mooney
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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th Carolina upon the reservation and in the outlying settlements were officially reported to number 1,479

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th Carolina upon the reservation and in the outlying settlements were officially reported to number 1,479. [459] A year later an epidemic of grippe spread through the band, with the result that the census of 1897 shows but 1,312, [460] among those who died at this time being Big-witch (Tskil-e'gwa), the oldest man of the band, who distinctly remembered the Creek war, and Wadi'yahi, the last old woman who preserved the art of making double-walled baskets. In the next year the population had recovered to 1,351. The description of the mode of living then common to most of the Indians will apply nearly as well to-day:

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