CATAWBA INDIAN ... held up while the tribe determined who was eligible for payments. Individuals had to prove they or their parents' names were on the tribe's 1940 or 1963 rolls.

The resulting census of tribal members was called the Dawes Rolls. These important documents later became central to the tribes, as they established enrollment requirements based on direct lineage ...

But Berryhill and thousands of other members of the Five Civilized Tribes in what would become Oklahoma received recognition of a different kind when they became Dawes Roll signees, an ...