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The rolls were used to assign allotments to heads of household and to provide an equitable division of all monies obtained from sales of surplus lands. These rolls became known as the Dawes Rolls. When word got out that people could get land, many non-Natives appeared at the offices and falsely claimed to be Native.
Because the 1896 applications were ruled invalid, the Dawes Commission started all over again two years later with new tribal rolls called the Dawes Rolls. The rolls were primarily created between 1898 and 1907, with a small number of applicants approved in 1914. The Dawes Rolls were authorized by the Curtis Act of 1898. [3]
The Cherokee Nation uses the Dawes Rolls to determine tribal citizenship. The UKB uses both the Dawes Rolls and the United Keetoowah Band Base Roll of 1949 to determine tribal citizenship. [5] The Dawes Rolls has been digitized and is searchable on the website of the Oklahoma Historical Society. [6] Cherokee tribal rolls include: 1817 ...
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The American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March 3, 1893. [1] Its purpose was to convince the Five Civilized Tribes to agree to cede tribal title of Indian lands, and adopt the policy of dividing tribal lands into individual allotments that was enacted for other tribes as the Dawes Act of 1887.
Beginning in 1898, the US officials created the Dawes Rolls to document the tribal members for such allotments; registrars quickly classified persons as "Indians by Blood," "Freedmen," or "Intermarried Whites." However, it included the Creek Freedmen citizens in the Creek nation. The enrollment under the Dawes Commission lasted until April 26 ...
It was not an orderly process. The Dawes Rolls of 1902 listed 41,798 citizens of the Cherokee Nation, and 4,924 persons listed separately as Freedmen. Intermarried whites, mostly men, were also listed separately. The genealogist Angela Y. Walton-Raji said that together, the Five Civilized Tribes had nearly 20,000 Freedmen listed on the Dawes Rolls.
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town retained its tribal identity despite allotments of land to individual households under the Dawes Commission of 1896. From 1898 to 1906, citizens among the Five Civilized Tribes were registered on what have come to be known as the Dawes Rolls. After making allotments to households registered with the tribes, the US ...