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Cherokee Nation Registry

Population Characteristics of the Cherokee Nation Registry
(2010 Census Data1)
  Both Sexes % of Total Registry Population
  1. Source: U.S. Bureau of Census, Census 2010, Summary File 1, Table DP-1.
  2. Since each person could report multiple races in the 2010 Census, race-specific counts and percentages in this table are based on persons self-reporting only one race.
  3. Only the American Indian/Alaska Native populations within this area are covered by SEER.
American Indian / Alaska Native2,3 89,808 100

Database:
Supplemental

Geographic Area:
Cherokee Tribal Jurisdictional Service Area (TJSA), a 7,000 square mile region which involves fourteen Oklahoma counties. Its current boundaries are the same as those of the Cherokee Nation at the time of Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

First Full Year of Data: 1997

Principal Investigators:
Kym Cravatt, MPH, CHES
kym-cravatt@cherokee.org

Web Site:
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The Cherokee Nation Registry is a supplemental SEER registry.