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Dawes Rolls:

Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama Deer Clan Website

FamilySearch - Oklahoma Applications for Enrollment to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 ^FREE New!

These records list the individuals who were accepted as eligible for tribal membership in the "Five Civilized Tribes": Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles. This record set is also known as the "Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes" and make up NARA publication M1301: Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914. The records include 101,000 names from 1898-1914 (primarily from 1899-1906) and provide the enrollee's name, sex, blood degree, and census card number. Index provided by Fold3.

Genealogy Quest - Cherokee Nation Pensioners, 1883

A list of pensioners in the Cherokee Nation on the pension roll on 1 January 1883. Included are the pension certificate number, post office address of pensioner, cause for which pensioned, the rate of the pension per month and the date the pension was originally allowed. The original list was ordered by post office address but we have arranged it by name for ease of searching.

GenealogyMagazine.com - Cherokee-White Intermarriages: Citizenship by Intermarriage in the Cherokee Nation

Abstracted from Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914, National Archives micropublication M1301, rolls 305, 306 and 307. Actual birth dates are rarely given, but ages were always recorded. Applicants were required to state their address, marital status, whether he or she was a citizen by blood or intermarriage, the spouse.

Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee >> The Georgia Cherokees

State recognized Cherokee Tribe.

History of the Cherokee -- White Indian's Homepage

Myth: Cherokee Princess | Ancestry Academy | Ancestry (YouTube) Updated

Native American Genealogy - Cherokee Indian Enrollment, Cherokee Research Guide & Cherokee Native American Genealogy Information

NC Cherokee Reservation Genealogy

Newberry Library - Cherokee Genealogy

Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory

Official Site of the Cherokee Nation based in Tahlequah Oklahoma

OHS Research Center | Teacher's Reports

Search Dawes Commission Teacher's Quarterly Reports, from the Oklahoma Historical Society. This database includes information for more than 9,000 students from the teacher's reports found in the records of the Dawes Commission. Records date from 1904 to January, 1907 for Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Creek Nations in what is now Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Cherokee Woman

Links & resources for Cherokee research.

RedNation of the Cherokee

Search the 1896 Applications Index

1896 Applications for Enrollment - Five Civilized Tribes. From the Oklahoma Historical Society, this database includes those who applied in the 1896 census/enrollment for the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes. This enrollment was later deemed invalid, and was replaced with the Dawes Final Roll.

Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky

Cherokee Nation since the 1800s.

Talking Leaves and the Cherokee Phoenix

Brief history of the Cherokee alphabet.

The Cherokee Alphabet and Pronunciation Guide