Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...

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. Among the details ...

More than 101,000 names of members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole and Chickasaw tribes are listed on the tribal membership rolls and the five tribes continue to use the Dawes Rolls as ...

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 ...

The Family History Library has several searchable and browsable collections of the Dawes Rolls specifically relating to the Seminole that may prove useful.

The Dawes Rolls can be used to trace your ancestry to one of the Five Tribes, which include Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole, says OHS.

For the past two weeks, I have been writing about the Dawes Commission of 1893 and how it created a list that enumerates the citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Chocktaw ...

But family legend and physical resemblance aren't enough. Today, you have to be able to prove your Indian heritage, which is hard for most black Seminoles because of something called the Dawes Rolls.

The above image — roll over to zoom in on a desktop computer; if you’re viewing in mobile, click — is a Dawes Roll application filled out by Rogers and his family and filed on Oct. 22, 1900.

Known as the Dawes Rolls, the census created two lists - those who appeared Native and those who appeared Black.

Being listed on the Dawes Rolls establishes ties to one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole.