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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

For the past two weeks, I have been writing about the Dawes Commission of 1893 and how it created a list that enumerates the citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Chocktaw, Chickasaw ...

Should Washington have a say in who is considered a full-fledged member of a Native American tribe? That question has now moved to the forefront of a heated racial battle within the Cherokee nation, ...

"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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Gov. Brad Henry and Oklahoma tribal leaders are honoring eight original American Indian signees of the Dawes Roll. The eight -- all more than 100 years old -- were honored Monday ...

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 ...