COMMENTARY 



Documents in The Inoli Letters, outside the range of this study, 

 show that the main body of the Eastern Cherokee at Qualla Boundary 

 was in sustained contact with smaller groups of their tribesmen who 

 settled in Graham and Macon Counties after having avoided removal 

 to the West. We know from other som-ces that they kept in touch 

 with other kin in Cherokee County as well. 



We do not learn why Ino:li prepared this census of the colony 

 at Sandtown. We do know that at a later date considerable but 



