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 American ...

For Native American research, the Dawes Rolls are considered one of the best of the limited tools available to a family researcher. Also known as the “Final Rolls,” the official name of the listings ...

"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 1906 Guion Miller roll and see such things as a 1906 surname ...

"The 1909 Guion Miller roll plus 1898 Dawes roll information for those that were on both rolls. Includes all applicants for the Miller roll, both accepted and not accepted for the Court of Claims ...

In this Nov. 13, 2013 photo, archivist Michael Wright holds a card from the Cherokee Roll at the National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas. The key documents to prove or disprove citizenship in five of ...

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, Chickasaw ...

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.