Indigenous Peoples of Arkansas

Arkansas tribes were removed to Oklahoma early in the 1830s.

Tribes and Bands of Arkansas
The following list of tribes is compiled from:


 * Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico.Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology. Bulletin #30 1907.
 * Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America.Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145.

Caddo, Cahinnio, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Illinois, Kaskinampo, Michigamea, Mosopelea, Ofo, Osage, Quapaw, Seneca, Seminole, Shawnee, Tunica, Tunica-Karoa, Yazoo

The Caddo Indians were farmers, ceded land and removed to Texas then removed to Indian Territory-Oklahoma

Reservations

 * As identified in the National Atlas of the United States of America, there are no current federally-recognized reservations in Arkansas.

Family History Library
For a complete list of available records use the Family History Library Catalog search..by Tribe, and Location


 * Chickamauga Cherokee Tribal Enrollment 6 films Family History Library 1st film 1597951
 * Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs 1832-1970 22 films M 640 1st film  Family History Library 1602871
 * Arkansas Superintendency 1824-1834 FHL no records at this time

See also:
Arkansas-History for a calendar of events