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*'''1866:''' July 19, Treaty provided for the cession of the Cherokee "neutral lands" in Kansas.  Indians living on the land could receive a patent to 320 acres but stipulated that they would no longer be members of the Cherokee nation.

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=== '''Records'''  ===

==== '''Census Records'''  ====

*'''1835''' [http://hometown.aol.com Cherokee Nation]  

*'''1851''' [http://www.tngennet.org/cherokee_by_blood/chapman.htm Chapman Roll]  

*'''1851 '''[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/settlers.php Old Settler Roll] (A list of Cherokee still living in1851 who lived in Indian Territory before 1839)  

*'''1854''' Roll Cherokee Indians prepared by Mallay [http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com]  

*'''1890 '''[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/wallace.php Wallace Roll - Cherokee Freedmen] (African Americans - Cherokee citizenship)  

*'''1896-1897 '''Kern - Clifton Roll [http://www.accessgenealogy.com www.accessgenealogy.com] (contains 4523 individuals missed on the Wallace Roll.)  

==== School Records  ====

The Bureau of Indian Affairs compiled annual Indian Census rolls on many of the reservations from 1885-1940. They list the names of individuals, their age, and other details about each person enumerated. For more information about these records [[American Indian Census Rolls|click here.]]  

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The year link (year of the treaty) will connect to an online copy of the treaty.  

In 1936, the Oklahoma Historical Society and University of Oklahoma requested a writer's project grant from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in which interviews would be conducted with early settlers in Oklahoma who had lived on Indian land. More than 100 writers conducted over 11,000 interviews and were asked to "call upon early settlers and (record) the story of the migration to Oklahoma and their early life here." <ref>Blackburn, Bob L. "Battle Cry for History: The First Century of the Oklahoma Historical Society." n.d. Oklahoma Historical Society. 5 Oct. 1998.</ref> The [http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/ University of Oklahoma Western History Collection] has digitized the Indian Pioneer Papers which consists of approximately 80,000 indexed entries arranged alphabetically by personal name, place name, or subject. <ref>The University of Oklahoma Western History Collections http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/</ref> An index to the Indian Pioneer Papers may also be found at [http://www.okgenweb.org/pioneer/ OkGenWeb Oklahoma Genealogy.] A separate index of Indians interviewed, including the Cherokee, may be viewed at: [http://goodoowah.50megs.com/indpio/ “Indians in the Indian Pioneer Papers”] Some of the surnames from the Cherokee tribe found in the collection are: Adair (Rider), Anderson, Beaver, Brewer, Bohanan, Burch (Choate), Campbell, Candy, Chambers (Ketcher), Coodey, Crutchfield (Lane), Daniels (Cummins), Daughtery (Morris), Drew, Dugan, Duncan, Harlan (James), Keys (Porter), Ketcher (Langley), Langley, Lynch, Marcham, McClure (Keith), Miller (Watts), Morris, Phillips (Keith), Rider (Howland), Ross, Rutherford (Rider), Starr, Vann, West (Spring).  

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*Cherokee Native Americans [http://cherokeenativeamericans.blogspot.com http://cherokeenativeamericans.blogspot.com]  

*Native American Research [http://nativeamericanresearch.blogspot.com http://nativeamericanresearch.blogspot.com]

=== '''Bibliography'''  ===

*Swanton John R. ''The Indian Tribes of North America''. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/indianlocation.htm Available online].  

*Waldman, Carl. ''Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes''. New York, New York: Facts on File, 2006. 3rd ed. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14718193?referer=list_view WorldCat 14718193]; {{FHL|1465222|title-id|disp=Family History Library book 970.1 W146e 2006}}.

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