Department of Enrollment

Osiyo,

    First, I would like to thank everyone for their patience with this department.  Please rest assured that your records are safe and secure at this time and will remain that way.
    Secondly, I would like to ask all Citizens of the Western Cherokee Nation to update their contact information and their mailing address with this department, and, to send in any further supporting documentation that may be available to support lineage.  Please complete Western Cherokee Nation Enrollment Update Form WCE1003 or contact me by email.  The Nation's mail was held by the post office for some 11  months, some of the mail was wrongly handed over to one of the two former plaintiffs that were claiming that the Nation did not exist but was merely a corporation.  If the Enrollment Department did not receive your enrollment package, we will ask you to resubmit your application.  If your original check or money order has been cashed, please provide a photocopy of the front and back of the cashed money order or check in lieu of sending an additional application fee.
    Finally, for new applicants for citizenship of and within the Western Cherokee Nation, please keep the following in mind:
with you current information.  The (newly re-formed) Cherokee Nation, of which we are proudly one of fifty-seven member nations (effective 08 May 2007), has requested that all of our records be updated and audited as soon as is possible.  I would like to ask any person that has applied for Citizenship in the Western Cherokee Nation between 15 August 2006 and early September, 2007 to

• The payment of Enrollment Application fees does not guarantee that applicants will be granted Citizenship.
• Please, do not send original documents!
• Please ensure that the following items are included in your Enrollment Application Package:
• Completed Enrollment Application - Form WCE1001A (one for each person/family member)
• Supporting documentation such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage records, pictures of headstones, death announcements, census records and land deeds, etc. 
•  A digital color photo on CD (Minimum 200 X 200 Pixels, 300dpi or greater) for each applicant.  If more than one person's photo(s) are submitted on CD, an accompanying list on the same CD in a text file (.txt) is required to identify what person belongs to what picture (by file nomenclature). In lieu of a digital photo, A regular color sharp and good quality photograph that be scanned and digitized by the Enrollment Department for each applicant is acceptable.  Please do not submit digital photos by email unless requested to do so by the Department of Enrollment by email or in writing.
  
• Appropriate fee in the form of a cashier's check or money order made payable to the "Western Cherokee Nation"