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. Among the details ...

Cherokee Nation citizenship is a legal determination based on a person's ability to trace his or her ancestry back to the Dawes Rolls.

In fact, the Dawes Rolls included thousands of blacks and whites who had lived with Indian tribes such as the Cherokee for generations. These non-Indians were historically recognized as Cherokee ...

The Dawes Rolls (officially, the “Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory”) were the lists of citizens officially counted as members of the ...

I have a great-great-great-great-great-grandmother who was on the 1817 Cherokee Roll: Lucy Briant, No. 91. But she didn’t go to Oklahoma with the Trail of Tears. She was in Tennessee. Would I ...

On March 3, the Cherokee people voted to include everyone as citizens, regardless of their race, with one stipulation­—they must link to an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls.

Elizabeth Warren is not a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Elizabeth Warren is not enrolled in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. And Elizabeth Warren is not one of the United Keetoowah Band of ...

The Dawes Rolls were a federally authorized census taken from 1898 to 1914. That was a defining time for Cherokee citizenship as many people of mixed ethnicity rejected citizenship in the Tribe.

A slave schedule shows Isaac was a slave of Cherokee Indian John Nivens. Also, Billy Postoak was Creek freedmen and yet his son Isaac ended up being on Cherokee freedmen rolls.

Cherokee Nation Tribal citizenship is founded on a person’s enrolled lineal ancestor listed on the “Dawes Roll” Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes.

Being listed on the Dawes Rolls establishes ties to one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole.