Black Indians

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    Multiple Tribes
    Croatan ~ See Lumbee
    Estelusti
    Freedmen ~ See Estelusti
    Lumbee
    		 Melungeons ~ Also See Mêtis
    Mêtis
    Red Bones ~ Also See Mêtis
    Seminoles
    Turk

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    Black Indians Multiple Tribes
    link button    African-Native American
    This history and genealogy webpage focuses on the histories and genealogies of so-called 'Black Indians', those of mixed-race ancestry [e.g., African-Native Americans, Melungeons, Red Bones, and other Mestee groups, and the Freedmen of The Five Civilized Tribes].
    link button   Slave Narratives
    Slave narratives from the Freedmen of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek Indian tribes of Indian Territory.
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    Estelusti
    link button    Black Cherokees [1898-1916]
    Surnames of the Cherokee Freedmen who were adopted through the Dawes Commission between 1898 and 1916.
    link button    Cherokee Nation ~ Freedmen Roll Numbers
    Alphabetical list of Cherokee Freedmen showing their Dawes Roll numbers.
    link button    Cherokee Nation ~ Slave Schedule [1860]
    Online images of the slave census records of Flint, Going Snake, Illinois, Kooeeskooee, Saline, Delaware, Cannadian, Sequaha, and Tahlequah, inhabitants of modern-day Oklahoma.
    link button     Cherokee ~ 1866 Treaty with Cherokee Nation
    Articles pertaining to African Cherokee Citizens and ending elavery in the Nation. [July 19, 1866. Ratified July 27, 1866. Proclaimed Aug. 11, 1866.]
    link button     Cherokee ~ Black Cherokees [1898-1916]
    Surnames of the Cherokee Freedmen who were adopted through the Dawes Commission between 1898 and 1916.
    link button   Cherokee by Blood
    This site contains links to folklore, genealogy, history, medicine, and other resources, as well as slave narratives, and portions of the 1866 Treaty that pertained to Cherokee Freedmen.
    link button   Cherokee ~ Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
    Declaration of Carl J. Artman, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs as part of an action filed against the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma [CNO] relating to the disenfranchisement of its Freedmen. 5/29/2007
    link button    Cherokee ~ Final Roll of Cherokee Freedmen Minor Children
    Roll based on the Minor Children Act of Congress, approved April 26, 1906. The ages are calculated to March 4, 1907. Original URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~appalachian/History/ Final_Roll_Cherokee_Freedman/final_roll_cherokee_freedman.html. When using the original URL, do not enter spaces.
    link button    Chickasaw Nation ~ Freedmen Roll Numbers
    Alphabetical list of Chickasaw Freedmen showing their Dawes Roll numbers.
    link button    Choctaw Freedmen of Oklahoma
    Browseable lists of Freedmen who chose to leave the Nation [[1885], Freedmen who were admitted to citizenship [1885], Choctaw Freedmen Dawes rolls, slave narratives, and more
    link button    Choctaw Freedmen of Oklahoma [1885]
    Transcript of the first official census of the Choctaw Freedmen taken in 1885. Names, ages, and names of former Choctaw slave owners are listed. In addition, the web site contains listings of Choctaw Freedmen who appear in the Dawes Rolls.
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    link button   Choctaw & Chickasaw Nation ~ Treaty of 1866
    The articles that pertain to the citizens of African Descent who lived in these nations. These articles pertain to their liberation from bondage to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, and to their former Confederate slave owners. [The treaty was ratified June 28, 1866, and proclaimed July 10, 1866.]
    link button   Choctaw Nation ~ Freedmen Roll Numbers
    Alphabetical list of Choctaw Freedmen showing their Dawes Roll numbers.
    link button   Choctaw-Chickasaw Freedmen Association ~ Oklahoma
    An organization founded in Ft. Coffee Oklahoma, whose stated purpose is to work with the local community to research, document and celebrate the unique history, heritage and legacy of the Freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.
    link button   Creek Nation ~ Freedmen Roll Numbers
    Alphabetical list of Creek Freedmen showing their Dawes Roll numbers.
    link button   Creek Nation ~ Treaty of 1866
    Articles 1 - 4 pertaining to Freedmen and Loyalists to the Union. [June 14, 1866, Ratified July 19, 1866, Proclaimed Aug. 11, 1866.]
    link button   Estelusti Foundation
    Rolls, court cases, obituaries, histories, etc., of the Indian Territory Freedmen [and their descendants] of the Five Civilized Tribes.
    link button   Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes
    Resources for the Freedmen descendants of the Five Civilized tribes [Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole] of Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
    link button   Kern-Clifton Roll [1896-1897]
    Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes [Oklahoma/Indian Territory].
    link button   Seminole Nation ~ Freedmen Roll Numbers
    Alphabetical list of Seminole Freedmen showing their Dawes Roll numbers.
    link button   Seminole ~ Treaty of 1866
    Articles pertaining to the freedom of slaves and the adoption of Freedmen as citizens. [Signed June 30, 1866.]
    link button   Wallace Roll [1890]
    Cherokee Freedmen in Indian Territory [Oklahoma]. ~~ NOTE: During the period 1896-1897, the Kern-Clifton Roll was created to fill in the omissions of the Wallace Roll. Both rolls should be searched when looking for Cherokee Freedmen ancestors.
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    Lumbee
    link button   North Carolina ~ Lumbee Indians
    An annotated bibliography, by Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling, which provides information on the Lumbee Indians, who mainly inhabit Hoke, Scotland, Robeson, and Cumberland counties in North Carolina. There are also significant Lumbee populations in Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland. In the past there were sizeable Lumbee communities in Bulloch County, Georgia [1890-1920] and Detroit, Michigan.
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    Mêtis
    link button   Mestee/Mêtis/Mestizo [Redbones and Melungeons]
    Links to information about the Redbones [Louisiana] and Melungeons [western Virginia and Eastern Tennessee].
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    Seminoles
    link button    Microfilmed Records Pertaining to Enumeration of Seminole Indians in Florida, 1880-1940
    These records are not searchabe, but you can purchase microfilm from them. Also keep in mind that if you see information here that may be of help to you, check with your local LDS family history center and see if they might be loaned through them.
    link button    Second Seminole War
    Wars and Battles, 1835-1842.. no searchable links, but gives brief history of this war.
    link button    Seminole & Apalachicola Indian records & miscellaneous
    This is a transcription of a few smaller Seminole & Apalachicola Indian Emigration muster rolls and letters from National Archives microfilm series M234, rolls 290, 291, 806 and 807.
    link button     Seminole Nation, I. T.
    'The land between the rivers'
    link button    Seminole Tribe of Florida
    This site is dedicated to the rich history and culture of the Florida Seminole Indians.
    link button    TREATY WITH THE CREEKS AND SEMINOLE, 1845.
    Jan. 4, 1845. | 9 Stat., 821. | Proclamation, July 18, 1845.
    link button    Treaty with the Florida Tribes of Indians, Sept. 18, 1823.
    This data is extracted from Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements.
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    Turk
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