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3 unusual facts about Dawes Rolls


MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

The BIA requires tribes to prove "internal cohesion, external boundaries, and a distinct Indian identity," the latter traced by genealogical descent from members of historical tribes listed in the early 1900s in records such as the Dawes Rolls.

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Following the Seminole Agreement of 1909, the Seminole lands were allotted to individual households registered on the Dawes Rolls, in a federal plan to encourage subsistence farming and assimilation.

essentially those with documented descent from ancestors listed as Seminole-Indian on the Dawes Rolls.



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