During the pandemic, I took a deep dive into my family history and learned my father and grandparents are listed on the Dawes Choctaw Rolls compiled by the government as a census of Indian ...

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.

An organization that educates and advocates for descendants of Freedmen who were formerly enslaved by the Five Tribes is ...

U.S. President Grover Cleveland appointed H.L. Dawes as head of the commission that Congress created in 1893 under the Dawes Act, which ultimately provided for the allotment of lands to ...

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 ...

In 2021, following pressure from Congress and the administration of President Joe Biden, the Indian Health Services ... restricted membership to those with Choctaw ancestors “by blood” according to ...

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 ...

Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it ...

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 are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal… ...