Oklahoma Applications for Allotment, Five Civilized Tribes - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Under the terms of the 1887 Dawes Act, Indian reservations were surveyed and lands held in common by the tribes were allotted in smaller parcels to individual members of the tribe. Individuals had to be enrolled tribal members to apply for an allotment. The lands were usually granted as homesteads. These records were created to provide a final list of those individuals who were approved to receive an allotment of land in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The records cover the years 1899 to 1907. Index courtesy of Fold3.

The collection consists of a name index and images of land allotment records for the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory. These records describe the parcels of land and name the tribal member to whom each parcel was allotted. Records are arranged by name of tribe (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole), by membership designation (member by blood, by intermarriage or freedmen), application number and according to age group -- newborn and minor children are listed separately. The pages may be:
 * Handwritten in narrative style
 * Handwritten on pre-printed forms
 * Typed
 * Printed plot maps

For a list of rolls in this collection see Tribal membership rolls.

Note:These records are related to two collections indexed by Footnote: RG 75, NARA publication M1301 (Applications for enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914--468 rolls); and M1186 (Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes--93 rolls).

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Research in American Indians of Oklahoma Arlington, Virginia : National Genealogical Society, ©2017 FS Library 970.1 H862a 2017
 * Applications for enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914
 * Cherokee Indian rolls dealing with the Dawes Commission
 * Chickasaw Indian rolls dealing with the Dawes Commission
 * Choctaw Indian rolls dealing with the Dawes Commission
 * Creek Indian rolls dealing with the Dawes Commission
 * Enrollment cards for the five civilized tribes, 1898-1914
 * Muskogee Area Office. Enrollment of the Five Civilized Tribes : Dawes Commission, 1896-1909
 * Final rolls of citizens and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory : as approved by the Secretary of the Interior on or before March 4, 1907, with supplements dated September 25, 1914

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Campbell's abstract of Creek Indian census cards and index.

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