What are the Siler rolls?

What are the Siler rolls?

1851 SILER ROLL (East) The roll is arranged by county and state. It provides information on the roll number, name, age, sex, and race. There were 88 names added to the Siler Roll in 1854 by an Act of Congress. There were 370 families on the Siler Roll.

What is the Henderson roll?

The Henderson Roll or Rolls of 1835 is a listing of 16,000 Cherokees living in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, & North Carolina to be removed to Oklahoma, per Treaty New Echota. It was taken in the months leading up to the conclusion of the Treaty of New Echota in December 1835.

What is the Hester roll?

Hester as a roll of Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in 1883. This Roll itself provides the Chapman roll number and English and Indian name.

How many Cherokees are on the roll?

A listing of 13,566 individuals in the various Districts of the nation showing their names either in Cherokee or English, sex, age and race. A listing of the individual’s name, Swetland Roll number and relationships to head of household, age, Mullay Roll number.

What is the old settlers roll?

The Old Settlers Roll is a listing of Cherokee still living in 1851 who were all ready residing in Oklahoma when the main body of the Cherokee arrived in the winter of 1839, as a result of the Treaty of New Echota (1835). Approximately one third of the Cherokee people were Old Settlers and two thirds new arrivals.

What Indian tribes are from Kentucky?

Tribes and Bands of Kentucky

• Cherokee.
• Chickasaw.
• Delaware.
• Mosopelea.
• Shawnee.
• Wyandot.
• Yuchi.

How do you find Cherokee rolls?

Dawes Rolls: Final Rolls

1. Go to the National Archives Catalog.
2. In the Search box, enter 300321 (this is the National Archives Identifier) and click Search.
3. Click on the link that says The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory., 03/04/1907.

What percentage Cherokee Do you have to be for benefits?

To give you an example, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians require a minimum of 1/16 degree of Cherokee Indian blood for tribal enrollment, while the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Higher Education Grant expects you to have the minimum of 1/4 Native American blood percentages.