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AccessGenealogy Library - Provides a listing of our on line books, books we own, and books we will be putting on line.

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Choctaw Chiefs

Chief Pushmataha History - In 1824 Pushmataha, principal Chief of the Choctaw, accompanied by other tribal chiefs, visited Washington D.C., from their native lands of central Mississippi.  Read more at Butler M. Tyler Texas Homepage.

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1885 Choctaw Nation Census (hosted at Choctaw-Web)

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Enrollment

     Before you apply be sure you are one-half (1/2) or more Choctaw blood and are a descendant of an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians listed on the 1940 roll. (See Articles III, Section 1 and 2 of the Tribal Constitution). Make Sure:

1. The Application for Enrollment is completed.
2. The Ancestry Chart is completed.
3. If applicant is under 18 years old both parents must sign.
4. Original long form birth certificate is included.
5. A copy of the Social Security card is included.
6. An original of the Parternity Affidavit is included (if needed).
7. Statement from official of the other Indian tribe (if applicable) stating the individual is not enrolled with them is included.

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Reeves Report - A report from John R. T. Reeves Special supervisor, Indian Service

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Research

On the Genealogical Choctaw Trail - The Choctaws were one of the largest and most advanced tribes in all of North America. Yet, with all of their knowledge they left few if any written records...Read more at Mississippi Choctaw Home Page

South East Native American Research - by Jackie Matte, During the period of Indian Removal beginning in 1831 extensive records were generated through the turn of the century when Southeastern Indians were uprooted from their homelands in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. 

How to Search - by Dusty, So, there's a story in your family that great, great grandma (or grandpa) was an Indian, and you'd like to find out if it's true?  Good for you...it's about time the millions of descendants of this country's original inhabitants were reconnecting with their lost families.

Rolls

Big Black River Band Muster Roll - Muster roll of a party on immigrant Choctaw Indians, known as the Big Black River Band who arrived at Fort Coffee, in the Choctaw Nation West on the 10th of June 1847.

Ha Cubbees Band Muster Roll - Muster roll of a party of immigrant Choctaw Indians of the Ha Cubbees Band who arrived at Fort Coffee, in the Choctaw Nation West, on the 23 of June 1847

Cooper Roll - Census Roll of Choctaw Families residing East of the Mississippi River and in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama made by Douglas H. Cooper, US Agent for Choctaws, in conformity with Order of Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated May the 23rd, 1855.

Dawes Commission Index, 1896
This is an index to over 14,000 records of individuals in the Five Civilized Tribes that applied for citizenship under the Act of 1896. The Five Civilized Tribes include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and the Seminole. Each record includes the individual's name tribe, and case number. This compilation, in effect an Indian census, was also used as the basis for the allotment of tribal lands to individual Indians. (Subscribers Only) Get 14 Days Free Access!!!

Dawes Commission Index, 1898-1914
Commonly called the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, the Dawes Commission was appointed by President Grover Cleveland in 1893. In return for abolishing their tribal governments and recognizing state and federal laws, tribe members of the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole - were given a share of common property. This database indexes the original applications for tribal enrollments under the act of June 28, 1898. It also indexes documents such as birth and death affidavits, marriage licenses, and decisions and orders of the Commission. (Subscribers Only) Get 14 Days Free Access!!

Index to the Final Rolls - Images For your family to be listed on this roll they would have been living in Oklahoma between 1898-1914 - Look-Up for Final (Dawes) Rolls

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Treaties

 Indian Affairs, Laws & Treaties, Vol. 2
As the United States expanded westward from the original thirteen colonies, settlers often confronted the existing owners of the land. As a result the federal government often negotiated treaties with these Native Americans. This collection of official treaties was compiled by the United States and originally printed in 1904.  (Subscribers Only) Get 14 Days Free Access!!!

The following treaties my not specifically apply to the Mississippi Choctaw but should be read to assist your in your genealogy research.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1786 - Articles of a treaty concluded at Hopewell, on the Keowee, near Seneca Old Town, between Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the one part; and of Yockonahoma, great Medal Chief of Soonacoha; Yockehoopoie, leading Chief of Bugtoogoloo; Mingo-hoopoie, leading Chief of Hashooqua; Tobocoh, great Medal Chief of Congetoo; Pooshemastubie, Gorget Captain of Senayazo; and thirteen small medal Chiefs of the first Class, twelve Medal and Gorget Captains, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of all the Choctaw Nation, of the other part.


Treaty with the Choctaw 1801 - A treaty of friendship, limits and accommodation between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation of Indians.
Treaty with the Choctaw 1802 - A provisional convention entered into and made by brigadier general James Wilkinson, of the state of Maryland, commissioner for holding conferences with the Indians south of the Ohio River, in behalf of the United States, on the one part, and the whole Choctaw nation, by their chiefs, head men, and principal warriors, on the other part.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1803  

Treaty with the Choctaw 1805 - A Treaty of Limits between the United States of America and the Choktaw [sic] nation of Indians.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1816 - A treaty of cession between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation of Indians.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1820 - A treaty of friendship, limits, and accommodation, between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation of Indians, begun and concluded at the Treaty Ground, in said nation, near Doak's Stand, on the Natchez Road.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1825 - Articles of a convention made between John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, being specially authorized therefor by the President of the United States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Head Men of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, duly authorized and empowered by said Nation, at the City of Washington, on the twentieth day of January, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.

Treaty with the Choctaw 1830

Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1854

Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1855

Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, 1866

Suggested Reading

The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb St. Tammay Parish Louisiana,

They Say the Wind is Red is a moving story of the Choctaw Indians who managed to stay behind when their tribe was relocated in the 1830’s. Written by Jackie Matte.

 

 

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