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The Dawes Rolls · 1898–1914
181,629 people, transcribed by the National Archives from the original enrollment cards — enrollees, Doubtful & Rejected applicants, and the parents named on every card. Between 1898 and 1914, the federal Dawes Commission re-enrolled the citizens of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations ahead of allotment — a coercive process whose paperwork is now one of the richest family-history sources for these nations.
Each family who appeared was written onto a census card (with parents' names on the back); their testimony and evidence went into an application jacket; and people who were approved received a roll number on the printed Final Rolls. Those marked Doubtful or Rejected never got one — but their records survive, and they're here too.
Mind the numbers: a roll number and a card number are different sequences, counted per tribe and category — the boxes above search each one exactly. Ages were recorded at application, so the printed rolls can show a person a few years older. The full map of these records →
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