How To Find Native American Roll Number

The Dawes Rolls are lists of individuals who were eligible for tribal membership in the "Five Civilized Tribes" from 1898-1914. Those who were eligible were entitled to state. Here's how to use these unique records to enquiry your family unit history.

ane. Verify your family lived in Indian Territory in the 1900 census.

Screenshot of names listed in the Dawes Rolls

To qualify for enrollment, an private had to exist living with his or her tribe in Indian Territory in 1900. If your family wasn't there, it's unlikely you'll discover them on the Dawes Rolls. To a higher place is a portion of the 1900 Usa Census for Indian Territory enumerating the Willard Bryant family. Discover that Myrtle Bryant is listed as "Ind," as is her son, Luther.

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2. Search the Dawes Rolls index on the OHS website.

Look for a married adult female under her married name. If yous notice a person in the index, note the card number. Click on it to see other family members listed on the carte. Do the ages and family members' names match your records? In addition to Luther, Myrtle Bryant's card lists the two sons she'd had since the 1900 census. All take the same demography card number, 4166, but each has a dissimilar roll number. You lot'll demand both numbers for each individual you enquiry. Her husband, mother in law and nephew aren't on the card; the 1900 census indicates they're white.

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iii. Obtain the application packet.

Apply the proper noun and/or census card number from the index to search Native American Applications for Enrollment in V Civilized Tribes at Ancestry.com or Fold3. Myrtle Bryant'due south packet includes her transcribed interview (which provides her parents' and spouse's names, marriage date and more than) and affidavits of each child's birth. The interview page explains Willard was denied tribal citizenship considering the couple was married "too belatedly under the Cherokee law in 1895." That law declared no white person intermarried since Dec. 16, 1895, could participate in tribal holding distribution.

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A version of this article appears in the Oct/Nov 2016 issue ofFamily Tree Magazine.