FORT WORTH — In the early 1900s, 61-year-old Clement Rogers filled out federal paperwork at a post office in Claremore, Okla., that detailed his ties to the Cherokee Indians.

There are scores of Cherokee people whose ancestors are not listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is because they either refused to sign up, or they were simply missed by the white census-takers.

Many people claim Cherokee ancestry, but they don't understand the difference between heritage and being a citizen of a federally recognized tribe. The Cherokee Nation is the largest Native ...

The Dawes Rolls (officially, the “Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory”) were the lists of citizens officially counted as members of the ...

Briefly between March 2006 and March 2007, our tribal courts opened citizenship to descendants of non-Indians on the Dawes Rolls, which included two non-Indian groups: Freedmen and intermarried ...

Dawes, Henry L (Henry Laurens) 1816-1903 Miller, Guion Notes "The 1898 Dawes roll plus Guion Miller roll informtion for those that were on both rolls. One can look forward in time from 1898 to the ...

<p>A federal judge recently ruled the descendants of slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to&nbsp;tribal citizenship.</p> ...