Being listed on the Dawes Rolls establishes ties to one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole. The Dawes Rolls has Census information that includes names ...

Cherokee Nation citizenship is a legal determination based on a person's ability to trace his or her ancestry back to the Dawes Rolls. These lists were created by the U.S. Dawes Commission when the ...

A recent decision by the Cherokee Nation’s Supreme Court struck down a law that freedmen – descendants of people enslaved by Cherokees in the 18th and 19th centuries – cannot hold elective tribal ...

I have a great-great-great-great-great-grandmother who was on the 1817 Cherokee Roll: Lucy Briant, No. 91. But she didn’t go to Oklahoma with the Trail of Tears. She was in Tennessee. Would I still be ...

"The 1898 Dawes roll plus Guion Miller roll informtion for those that were on both rolls. One can look forward in time from 1898 to the 1906 Guion Miller roll and see such things as a 1906 surname ...

A federal judge recently ruled the descendants of slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship. 9/8/2017 Relates Story: Cherokee Nation Processing Freedmen ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — When she was born in Indian Territory in 1900, Muscogee (Creek) tribal member Martha Berryhill was not considered an American citizen because citizenship was not granted to members of ...

For Native American research, the Dawes Rolls are considered one of the best of the limited tools available to a family researcher. Also known as the “Final Rolls,” the official name of the listings ...

The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court yesterday upheld a Constitutional amendment which requires all the Nation’s citizens to have at least one Indian ancestor on the federally-authorized Dawes Rolls. The ...

"The 1909 Guion Miller roll plus 1898 Dawes roll information for those that were on both rolls. Includes all applicants for the Miller roll, both accepted and not accepted for the Court of Claims ...

In this Nov. 13, 2013 photo, archivist Michael Wright holds a card from the Cherokee Roll at the National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas. The key documents to prove or disprove citizenship in five of ...