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From: "Joan West" <>
Subject: Re: [FLHERNAN] Publication of the Dawes rolls.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:28:52 -0400
References: <20030610115747.3325.h015.c002.wm@mail.ldsliving.com.criticalpath.net>


It is my belief that any book, magazine, any printed matter DOES COME UNDER
THE TITLE "GENEALOGY" when it can help us with our searches.......this is
not commercialism, it is "genealogy"....

So many people do not even know about the Dawes List and other books, and
are out there floundering around when a message such as yours would help
them so much.....

I thank you.

Joan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Byrd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: [FLHERNAN] Publication of the Dawes rolls.


> I usually don't post information about books becuase is
> it commercial but the publication of the Dawes Rolls is
> fairly significant for those seeking to prove
> relationship to the Native American heritage. But I
> hope that you all will not take offence at the
> commercial.
>
> Deborah Byrd
> List Mom and or list member
>
> Below is the annoucement from Genealogical Publishing
> Company.
>
> LANDMARK PUBLICATION OF "DAWES COMMISSION" FINAL ROLLS
>
> In a publishing year that has seen the release of a
> number of valuable books devoted to Native American
> genealogy (see below) now comes perhaps the most
> important such reprint in a century: the FINAL ROLLS OF
> CITIZENS AND FREEDMEN OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES IN
> INDIAN TERRITORY and the subsequent INDEX TO THE FINALS
> ROLLS.
>
> The FINAL ROLLS and the INDEX codified the work of the
> federal government's Dawes Commission, which was
> established in 1893 in order to negotiate land policies
> with members of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees,
> Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), most--but
> not all--of whom had already been expelled from their
> ancestral homelands to the Oklahoma Territory.
>
> Under the terms of the Dawes Commission statute, the
> government now reversed its previous policy of
> respecting the territorial integrity of Indian
> reservations by abolishing tribal governments and,
> instead, allotting land to tribal members on an
> individual basis. The Commission's work, of course, is
> yet another example of the capricious and shameful
> policies practiced by the federal government toward
> Native Americans prior to the 20th century, the FINAL
> ROLLS nonetheless have enormous genealogical value, for
> they identify all Native Americans who could prove
> their rightful membership in each of the respective
> tribes (a membership which qualified them to share in
> the eventual division of the commonly held Indian
> lands).
>
> To quote Rachal Lennon, author of the definitive
> TRACING ANCESTORS AMONG THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES
> http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=3350,
> "Over the next two decades, as the Five Civilized
> Tribes were forced to capitulate, these mandates
> created a mass of genealogical records that are surely
> unparalleled in American history--records that treat
> not only the Oklahoma tribes but also the Eastern
> Cherokee (based in North Carolina), the Mississippi
> Choctaw, and thousands of individuals who acknowledged
> or claimed a family tradition of descent from one of
> these tribes, even though their forebears had several
> tribal ties."
>
> Ms. Lennon continues, "The value of the genealogical
> information is greatly enhanced by the commission's
> decision to enroll individuals in eight separate
> categories: (1) Citizens by Blood, (2) Citizens by
> Marriage, (3) New born Citizens by Blood, (4) Minor
> Citizens by Blood, (5) Freedmen (African Americans whom
> the Indians had held in slavery but later freed and
> admitted to tribal membership), (6) New Born Freedmen,
> (7) Minor Freedmen, and (8) Delaware Indians adopted by
> the Cherokee.
>
> Original publication of the FINAL ROLLS and its INDEX
> was accomplished by 1907, and together they identify
> 101,000 names according to the individual's age, sex,
> degree of Indian blood, and the number of the census
> roll on which each Indian was enrolled. Printed in a
> very small quantity and otherwise unavailable for
> nearly a century, our two-volume reprint is one of the
> finest printed sources relating to the genealogy of the
> Five Civilized Tribes, and it is the reference of
> choice for any researcher hoping to prove a
> relationship to one of the tribes.
> http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?ID=5903
>
>
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