This is the index to the Dawes Final Rolls, listing individuals eligible for enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory. Each entry includes the enrollee’s name, final roll number, blood quantum, and index page.
Please note: Not every roll number in this index corresponds to an individual listed in the original Dawes Rolls. The final rolls include additions from court filings, new births, and other updates.
Use this index to find your ancestor’s correct roll number. Once you have their enrollment category and final roll number, search the Dawes Rolls to locate their census card. You can do this automatically by clicking on their Roll ID in the results.
I am looking for all information for chief corn tassel and Nancy Corntassel. Where can I find their roll numbers and card # ? Please help.
Your ancestor would have to had been alive in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1896 to have a Dawes Number.
There was a chief named Corn Tassel. There are also a lot of made up lineages which include a different man by the name of Corn Tassel. Beware the made up lineages.
I have a family record that indicates the mother of an ancestor was a Basheba Creek Indian. Can you advise who I can contact for more information? These ancestors were located primarily in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as well as the Carolinas. Thanks!
What type of record? There are no tribes called “Basheba Creek”. Give me more information on this record (Type, date, locale, etc …) and the ancestor you are referencing (name, approx. date of birth/feath/locale) and I ‘ll see if I can figure out what it is talking about. “Basheba” might be someone’s name, a misspelling of the Biblical name Bathsheba.
Hi I’m looking for any information on Nathan and Louisa creighton of the Choctaw tribe. I can’t find anymore information on them no matter how hard I search other than the card number mcr4797 no roll number but they both had ID# mr creightons dawesID was 81768 and mrs creigton was 81767 thanks in advance
What information are you wanting? Apparently, Nathan and Louisa Creighton lived in Mississippi and died before 1900. I will add some historical background. The Choctaw were removed from their native lands in the south to Indian Territory in the early 1830s. Some Choctaw remained in Mississippi. However, according to the terms of removal, the nearly 5000 Choctaw who remained in Mississippi lost their Tribal citizenship and became citizens of the state and the United States. In 1934, President Roosevelt signed into law the Indian Reorganization Act. This led to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to adopt a constitution and become a federally recognized Tribe.
The Dawes rolls were a census of Tribal citizens of the Five Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscgee Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole) living in Indian Territory around 1900. Although most individuals had to live in Indian Territory to apply for the Dawes Roll, Mississippi Choctaw were the exception. Most Identified Mississippi Choctaw resided in Mississippi at the beginning of the enrollment process. The Dawes Commission set up offices in Mississippi and began the process of interviewing applicants. While other tribes maintained records and census rolls that could verify an applicant’s identity, the Mississippi Choctaw had few records. The Dawes Commission made judgments based on an applicant’s “Choctaw characteristics,” such as their appearance or ability to speak the Choctaw language. The Dawes Commission was bombarded with fraudulent applicants from across the US trying to secure an allotment. Applicants who were deemed eligible for citizenship were listed as “Identified.” Identified Mississippi Choctaw had to remove to Choctaw or Chickasaw lands in Indian Territory and establish residency. After a period of time, individuals could submit proof of their removal and receive an approved Dawes Roll number and a land allotment. Of the 2,597 applicants listed as Identified Mississippi Choctaw, only 1,457 received an approved roll number. Nathan and Louisa are listed on their daughter Josephine’s 1902 application as being “dead”. Josephine Thomas, applied to the Dawes Commissionon behalf of herself and four children but was rejected. Her family appear on the 1900 census as living in Meridian, MS and their race is listed as black.
last year i posted regarding my families information that has been removed from dawes index/rolls but have not received an answer. Can you please let me know how to get the information restored? thank you
Names are not removed from the Dawes rolls. There is no Joseph Wyatt Hunt on the Dawes rolls. There is a Joseph Henry Hunt, who was an intermarried white man. He was married to a Cherokee citizen, Ruth Harlan. Their children were Nathaniel, Joseph, Nancy, and Lucile.
Hi Barb,
i found my family listed here on access genealogy both index and final….no roll # but an ID number but now i cannot find them. can you please explain why they are no longer on this page.
thank
you
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i found them on this page the access genealogy page. they have been removed from this page, the access genealogy page. i am hoping that you can add them back to this page, the access genealogy page. is that possible?
thank you,
ande
Hi Barb, I had found Joseph Wyatt Hunt and his Son Joseph Jr here on access genealogy but their names are no longer on the list. They were on both the index and final rolls found on accessgenealogy–a number was listed for them in the ID row. What are the ID numbers. Were those the numbers given after a certain date by the act of congress or citizenship numbers- freedmen numbers? i would like to know what the ID numbers are used for. thank you
who removes the names, and other information ID/ROLL numbers from the access genealogy pages dawes roll index and dawes roll final rolls? i found my families names several years ago but now cannot find them.
Can you please add the information for Joseph Wyatt Hunt and joseph wyatt hunt jr. back to the dawes index and final. i have the page copied from previous dates but the information is no longer here! Other family members have been searching for that.
i will post or send that information if you can do that. thank you
Joseph W Hunt was listed on the final rolls index and the final rolls pages as of 2019 however their names have been removed. I have a copy of that listing, how do we get that information back on here?
I have docket # 11141, issued through Richard L. Taylor. How can I find help regarding this number.
Searching for info on my grandfather evangelist lockee who is Cherokee and preach to the Cherokee people in Oklahoma
133 View Roll #1747 Henderson Isom Choctaw Freedmen
It appears something is wrong with this entry. Isom Henderson does not appear on this page. When i click on the link for roll #1747, he is not on it….
Hi, i am trying to find my great great grandmothers roll number but i can’t seem to locate it anywhere. Her maiden name was Martha Josephine Carter and married name was Martha Josephine Inman. She was full blooded Choctaw Indian and lived on the reservation in Mississippi or Arkansas i can’t quite remember. Any information would be helpful thank you!!
Looking for information on Evelyn Reynolds. She used the name Eva. I am told she was Cherokee or Creek. I have conflicting birth years. Family thinks she was born in 1870’s, census notes 1880. I believe she was born in NC. She lived in Georgia around 1905, moved to California a few years later. I cant locate her on any census or vital records prior to 1910. I searched the 1900 census without luck.
I am trying to locate a ” Betty Beard Edwards” she is believed to be of Choctaw tribe, born 1880.
I have a Dawes card Number is 10387 it is a Palmer or Underwood
Looking for the mother of Elizabeth (Dicy) Claypipe Anderson b1829 circa d 1859 Phelps, Missouri, married Francis Shipman. Father John S Anderson. Claypipe born near the Tenn. Alabama line in Tenn. Cherokee who escaped deportation by hiding in the hills. I am trying to establish Cherokee connection but Claypipe was not registered. She did not register because “the Chief killed her uncle”, Buck Watie?
Brickey
I am trying to figure out how to pull up my roll numbers. I am adopted and don’t have my original birth certificateb but I know we are Cherokee and Choctaw. Just looking for some kind of help. My bio family is in the Oklahoma area.
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Hi, I am looking for any information on Joseph Raincrow, Celey Raincrow, Archibald Dotson,….Also looking for information on how to utilize my enrollment number actively “join” a tribe. Does it have to be local tribe? What about tribe from which my enrollment number comes from? It’s my understanding that the tribe my card comes from is one of the fraudulent tribes, Northern Cherokee Tribe, but I have proof positive that my 5th great grandfather is on the 1880 Dawes Roll. How do I go about finding “a tribe”, my family, etc., to finally fill the hole my lack of Indian Heritage has left me?
(I know, sounds melodramatic. But it’s exactly the way I feel)
thank you for any help i can get from anyone
The site looks great, but I get the same search for final rolls and index. I can’t search by tribe anymore and I need that search function to get the most out of your site.
Jennifer,
Thank you for alerting me to the issue. That was not the plan but due to one page overwriting another. I have corrected the issue and you should be able to once again view by tribe from the Final Roll page itself, but not the index. My apologies for my error.
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