The total of 1845 includes 1, 444 bushels raised on the Buffalo Creek Reservation.

Mostly young trees, planted since the occupation by the Indians of lands!formerly leased to whites.

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Market gardens, 1865, 5 acres; products sold, $78.
Unenumerated product of farms 1865, $810.

At Oneida, in 1865, 75,056 pounds of cheese were reported.

$2,448.92 456.00

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CHAPTER XIX.

INDIAN RESERVATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, OREGON, AND UTAH TERRITORY.

NORTH CAROLINA.

All the Indians formerly residing in the State have been removed to the west of the Mississippi with the exception of a few scattering Catawbas.

There is one reservation containing an aggregate area of 65,211 acres. This tract is held by deed. Total population, 4,000.

There is one agency, called the Eastern Cherokee, having charge of the reservation known as Qualla Boundary and other lands.

EASTERN CHEROKEE AGENCY.

[Post-office address: Charleston, Swain County, N. C.]

QUALLA BOUNDARY AND OTHER LANDS.

How established.-Held by deed to Indians under decision of United States circuit court for western district of North Carolina, entered at November term, 1874, confirming the award of Rufus Barringer and others, dated October 23, 1874, and act of Congress approved August 14, 1876, and deeds to Indians from Johnston and others, dated October 9, 1876, and August 14, 1880. (See also House Executive Document No. 196, Forty-seventh Congress, first session.)

Area and survey.-Contains 65,211 acres,2 of which 4,500 are classed as tillable.3 Out-boundaries surveyed. 2

Acres cultivated.-Two thousand acres cultivated by the Indians. Tribes and population.—The tribe living here is the Eastern band of North Carolina Cherokee. Total population, 4,000.

Location.-The reservation is situated in Swain, Jackson, Cherokee, and Graham Counties.

No agency statistics reported for these Indians.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 139. 2 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 389. 3 Ibid., p. 434.

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