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A
Agency -- the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, usually responsible one or more tribes residing on a reservation

Allotment Record --

Annuity Rolls --

Area Office --

B
Band -- a subdivision of a tribe

BIA -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs in the United States.

C
Commissioner of Indian Affairs --

Confederacy --

Confederation --

Consolidation --

D
Dawes Commission - The U.S. Congress approved the act on March 3, 1893. The purpose was to negotiate treaties with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Indian tribes. The aim was to divide tribal land into plots which were then distributed to approved members of the tribe.

Dawes Roll --

E
Enrollment Records

F
Factory --

Five Civilized Tribes --

Freedman --

M
Mission --

N
Nation -- after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, a term often used to mean a tribe which had organized under that Act

O
Office of Indian Affairs -- the forerunner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

R
Rancheria -- a term used almost exclusively in California for a small reservation, often to describe a parcel of land purchased by a tribe and subsequently recognized by the federal or state government.

Register of Families --

Removal --

Reservation -- a parcel of land reserved by the United States government upon which a tribe or tribes were to reside

S
Superintendency --

T
Termination --

Treaties --

Tribe -- a term applied by non-Indians to a group of Native Americans, usually of a common linguistic or cultural stock