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.

That documentation is included in what has come to be known as the Dawes Rolls, and Will Rogers became a legendary entertainer whose name is on highways, parks and building across the nation ...

It is the key to your search of the rolls. The Dawes census cards, as the applications are called, are classified according to the tribes, in these categories: By Blood, Newborns, Minors ...