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Online Resources
Native American Online Genealogy Records


 * Indian Removal Through Arkansas
 * National Geographic
 * Native American Treaty Cession Lands in Arkansas AR GenWeb
 * U.S., Ratified Indian Treaties and Chiefs, 1722-1869, Ancestry.com ($)

Tribes Recognized by the Federal Government
There are no Tribes in Arkansas that are recognized by the Federal Government.

Tribes Recognized by the State of Arkansas
There are no Tribes recognized by the State of Arkansas. Most Native Americans were forced to leave Arkansas during the Indian Removals of the 1800's. These tribes are not extinct, but except for the descendants of Arkansas Indians who escaped from Removal, they do not live in Arkansas anymore. They were moved to Indian reservations in Oklahoma instead.

Tribes Formally in Arkansas
Caddo Cherokee Chickasaw Osage Quapaw Tunica

Tribes Not Recognized or No longer are Active in Arkansas
Cahinnio Kaskinampo Michigamea Mosopelea Ofo Yazoo

Agency
Agencies and subagencies were created as administrative offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its predecessors. Their purpose was (and is) to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same. Many of the records of genealogical value were created by these offices.


 * Arkansas Agency, 1807-1834
 * Cherokee Agency

The Arkansas Superintendency was created in 1819 under the the Secretary of War, until 1824 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established. The superintendency was dissolved and the Cherokee Choctaw, Quapaw and other tribes living in the area west of Arkansas were placed in the new Western Superintendency.

Jurisdiction over the tribes: Cherokee, Quapaw, Choctaw, Osage, Shawnee, Caddo and Delaware.

There was a government Indian factory (trading post) established on the Arkansas river known as the Arkansas Post.

1825 An agency for the Choctaw living west of the Mississippi River, remained under the Arkansas Superintendency until 1828.

1825-1826: Most Quapaw were removed to the Caddo or Red River Agency on the Red River, west of Arkansas.

1832 Supervision of the Cherokee Indians only.

1835 The last Indian tribes had been removed from Arkansas to present-day Oklahoma. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs have been transcribed in:


 * Baker, Jack D.Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Baker Pub., 1977..


 * Arkansas Superintendency of Indian Affairs

Missions in Arkansas

 * Ancestry.com Cherokees, Conversations on the mission to the Arkansas, 1833. ($)

Arkansas Native Americans Historical Background

 * Chickamauga Cherokee Tribal Enrollment..
 * Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs 1832-1970..

For Further Reading
The following list of tribes is compiled from the Frederick Webb Hodge, and The Indian Tribes of North America Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987. and Swanton, John R.