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• American Indians - A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm

• Chapman Roll of Eastern Cherokees 1851

• Dawes Final Rolls | OHS Research Center

  From the Oklahoma Historical Society, this easy-to-search index includes those who applied for enrollment in one of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole). The rolls were taken between 1898 and 1906. This index includes the name, age, sex, blood quantum, census card number, tribe and enrollment number.

• Dawes Rolls:

  • Ancestry.com - Dawes Commission Index, 1896

    Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Online searchable index of the over 14,000 records of individuals in the Five Civilized Tribes that applied for citizenship under the Act of 1896 The Five Civilized Tribes include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Creek and the Seminole. Original source: United States, National Archives and Records Administration. Applications From the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee Area Office, Relating to Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes Under the Act of 1896. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992.

  • Dawes Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes

    Dawes is a list of those members of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the 1800's and were living there during 1898-1914.

  • Final Roll - Index to the Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory 1889-1914

    Index to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations in Indian Territory.

  • Fold3 - Native American Records $

    Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

    • Dawes Packets

      Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914, NARA M1301.

  • Native American Records in the National Archives

    • ARC Gallery: Native Americans

      Selected records from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).

      • Dawes Applications (Cherokee)

      • Dawes Applications (Chickasaw)

      • Dawes Applications (Choctaw)

      • Dawes Applications (Creek)

      • Dawes Applications (Delaware)

      • Dawes Applications (Seminole)

      • Dawes Rolls and Index

    • Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (The Dawes Commission), 1893-1914

    • Final Rolls Index - Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Dawes)

      Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole.

    • Prologue: Selected Articles - Spring 1997, Vol. 29, No. 1,

      Article by Kent Carter.

    • The Dawes Rolls (Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory) Online

      An online tutorial from the National Archives and Records Administration.

• Fold3 - Native American Records $

  Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

  • Ratified Indian Treaties

    Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869.

• Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records 1722-1863

  This database includes more than 2000 transactions found in governmental records involving the servitude and emancipation of Africans and, occasionally, Indians in the French and English eras of colonial Illinois (1722-1790) and African-Americans in the American period of Illinois (1790-1863).

• Indian Captives of Early American Pioneers

• Indian Pioneer Papers

  Oklahoma pioneer interviews from a WPA Project 1937-38.

• NARA | ARC | Guion Miller Roll Index

  Index to the Applications Submitted for the Eastern Cherokee Roll of 1909 (Guion Miller Roll). The index includes the names of all persons applying for compensation arising from the judgment of the United States Court of Claims on May 28, 1906, for the Eastern Cherokee tribe. While numerous individuals applied, not all the claims were allowed. The information included on the index is the application number, the name of the applicant, and the State or Territory in which the individual resided at the time the application was filed.

• Native American - Indian Genealogy

  From AccessGenealogy.com.

  • Act of Congress Roll ~ 1854

  • Armstrong Rolls

    The location of Reservations under The Choctaw Treaty of the 27th of September, 1830. The database provides the name of Choctaws, and the size and location of their reservation.

  • Baker Roll - 1934

    The final roll of the Eastern Cherokee.

  • Camp Kearney Prisoners

    List of Sioux indian prisoners confined at Camp Kearney, Daveport, Iowa, January 20, 1866.

  • Cooper Roll

    Census Roll of Choctaw Families residing East of the Mississippi River and in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama made by Douglas H. Cooper, US Agent for Choctaws, in conformity with Order of Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated May the 23rd, 1855.

  • Guion Miller Roll 1909

    The index includes the names of all persons applying for compensation arising from the judgment of the United States Court of Claims on May 28, 1906, for the Eastern Cherokee tribe.

  • Kern-Clifton Rolls

    In 1896-1897 the Kern-Clifton Roll was created to fill in the ommissions of the Wallace Roll.

  • McKennon Roll - 1899

  • Old Settlers Roll

    A listing of Cherokee still living in 1851 who were all ready residing in Oklahoma when the main body of the cherokee arrived in the winter of 1839, as a result of the Treaty of New Echota (1835).

  • Reservation Roll Applicant Index

    A listing of Cherokees applying for a 640 acre tract in the East in lieu of removing to Arkansas.

  • Society of Mississippi Choctaw 1914

    Alpahbetical membership listings.

  • Ute Rolls - 1954 Proposed Ute Rolls

    This database contains 2 rolls, the Full Blood Roll and the Mixed Blood Roll of the Ute Tribe of Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah.

  • Wallace Roll

    The Wallace Roll was created in 1890 due to the citizenship of many ex-slaves (freedmen) being disputed by the Cherokee Tribe. The Wallace Roll helped establish claim for the freedmen for the sharing of the Cherokee lands, and the payments and annuities the Cherokee Tribe was to receive in the future.

• Native Americans: Highlighted Records

  From the National Archives and Records Administration, ARC - Archival Research Catalog.

• Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

  Contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.