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Ancient->General: Indian DNA links to 6 'founding mothers'
Posted on Friday, March 14 @ 06:06:40 PST (575 reads)

A new genetic study suggests that all american indians can trace their lineage to one of just six mothers.

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TNB->By State: Illinois Tribe was the most numerous tribe of Illinois
Posted on Sunday, December 16 @ 02:57:25 PST (1360 reads)

Excerpted from The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton

The primary Indian group in the state of Illinois was the Illinois, a large native group made up of several related tribes. Their tribal name “Illiniwek” means “men” or “people.” They were of the Algonquin linguistic group and were most closely related to the Miami and Chippewa tribes.

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TNB->By State: Many tribes left their mark on Indiana
Posted on Sunday, December 16 @ 01:55:54 PST (1354 reads)

AUTHOR: Excerpt from The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton

Indiana’s most influential Indian tribes were the Miami, Wea, and Piankashaw. Yet, there were other tribes that also left their mark in and on the state.

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Looking for Relative: Looking for relatives of Electa Smith from Greene County, Pennsylvania
Posted on Wednesday, June 20 @ 15:14:16 PDT (1658 reads)

Chyanne Miller is looking for relatives of Electa Smith, who came from Greene County, Pennsylvania.

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Looking for Relative: Looking for relatives of Kathryn Pacquin
Posted on Saturday, June 16 @ 13:48:20 PDT (1577 reads)

I am looking for my great Grandmothers people or anything about her. She commited suicide in Michigan, leaving my Grandmother Kathryn Pacquin and her brother Joseph.

Note: You would probably get more replies to this inquiry if you stated the time period your great grandmother lived, and her tribal affiliation if known.

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Statistics: Census Bureau update provides look at Indian Country
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 01:29:06 PDT (3213 reads)

The United States is home to nearly 2.4 million American Indians and Alaska Natives, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, with Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux and Ojibwe the most prominent tribal affiliations.

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TNB->Creek: Some Creeks had owned slaves prior to 1865, and by treaty they were required to adopt them into the tribe
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 20:45:25 PDT (7562 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

Pleasant Porter was elected principal chief on September 5, 1899, on a platform of compromise with the federal government. In addition to dealing with tribal dissension over the agreement, Porter also had to try to resolve the controversial question of the rights of the freedmen.

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TNB->Creek: The Dawes Commission adopted a very narrow view of their powers
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 20:30:20 PDT (4566 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

On August 4, 1898, Aylesworth gave Isparhecher a signed receipt for twenty-five 1896 town census rolls. It had taken more than two years of requests and then threats of court action to get just one of the "official rolls." The ninety days that the Dawes Commission had to decide applications under the 1896 act had, of course, long since elapsed.

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TNB->Creek: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 19:43:31 PDT (5664 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

What can you do when you "discover" a continent, but there are already people living there? Europeans arriving in North America tried a number of approaches to solve what was often referred to as "the Indian Problem," depending on the relative military power of the natives and non-natives.

By the late 1870s, most tribes had been pushed onto reservations in areas that were generally undesirable and out of the path of settlement, but many friends of Native Americans became convinced that efforts to isolate and then civilize them were not working and that assimilating them into the general population would be a better policy.(1)

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Finding your Cherokee ancestors
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:53:57 PST (8117 reads)

In 1976, Cherokee voters ratified a new Cherokee Constitution, which changed the ways of measuring tribal membership. At that time, it was determined that anyone who could trace direct descent from the Dawes Rolls, a census taken between 1902-1907, could become a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. There are now over 165,00 registered Cherokee citizens.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Census rolls and historical records that contain clues to Cherokee genealogy
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:45:13 PST (11304 reads)

The different Census Rolls are given control numbers by the National Archives so they may be ordered, such as M-1234. The rolls are usually named for the person taking the census. Each roll pertains to a particular year so it is important to select the year that applies to the individual whom you are looking to find. I usually like to start with the Guion Miller Roll. The claims had to be on file by August 31, 1907. In 1909 Miller stated that 45,847 separate applications had been filed representing a total of about 90,000 individuals; 3436 resided east, and 27,384 were residing West of the Mississippi.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Where to start your Cherokee genealogy research
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:28:51 PST (7839 reads)

The Cherokee Indians have had continuing dealings with the U.S. Government since the 1700’s through treaties, legislation, and the courts. There are probably more federal records concerning the Cherokees than any other tribe.

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TNB->Choctaw Indians: Some Chocktaw genealogy research suggestions
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:22:20 PST (9004 reads)

In doing research on Choctaw genealogy, it is useful to combine standard genealogical research with information from federal records. The typical research of records in the county courthouse or state archives frequently leads to other information from the federal records.

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TNB->Choctaw Indians: Historical records where you might find genealogical records of your Choctaw ancestry
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:17:34 PST (49176 reads)

There are extensive governmental records relating to trade, military affairs, treaties, removal to Oklahoma, land claims, trust funds, allotments, military service and pensions, and other dealings with the Choctaw Indians, which reach back to the early days of the existence of the Republic.

A vast volume of records was created during the period of Indian Removal (1831-34), when the Choctaws and their government were uprooted from their homes in Mississippi and Alabama and taken to the area west of the Mississippi in what is now southeast Oklahoma.

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TNB->Creek: Where to start in your search for Creek or Muskoke ancestors
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:02:21 PST (4493 reads)

The records relating to the Creek Indians are actually records of a number of different Indian tribes who belonged to confederacy of which the Muskoke or Creek (as they were called by the Europeans) were the principal power. The confederacy included various Muscogee people such as the Okfuskee, Otciapofa, Abikha, Okchai, Hilibi, Fus-hatchee, Tulsa, Coosa, as well as the Alabama, Natchez, Koasati and possibly some Shawnee who settled among them.

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