The Five Civilized Tribes

The Five Civilized Tribes
Author:
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806109237

Examines the problems of the Indian tribes in trying to maintain a self-derived culture, while adapting to the alien influences of the white man's society during the nineteenth century

Black Indian Genealogy Research

Black Indian Genealogy Research
Author: Angela Y. Walton-Raji
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780788444739

In 1907, the Indian Territory became the State of Oklahoma. To qualify for the payments and land allotments set aside for the Five Civilized Tribes, the former slaves of these nations had to apply for official enrollment, thus producing testimonies of imm

I've Been Here All the While

I've Been Here All the While
Author: Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812253035

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.

Guion Miller Roll "plus" of Eastern Cherokee, East & West of Mississippi "1909"

Guion Miller Roll
Author: Bob Blankenship
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1994
Genre: Cherokee Indians
ISBN: 9780963377449

The 1909 Gunion Miller roll plus Dawes Roll information for those that were on both rolls. Includes all applicants for the Miller Roll, both accepted and not accepted for the court of claims settlement. One can look backward in time from 1906 to the 1898 Dawes Roll and find such items of information as Dawes Roll numb, Census card number, degree of Cherokee blood, and surname in 1898. All in addition to the information provided in the original 1909 Guion Miller Roll.

The Seminole Freedmen

The Seminole Freedmen
Author: Kevin Mulroy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806155884

Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of Seminole-black identity and community from their eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present day. Arguing that the Seminole freedmen are neither Seminoles, Africans, nor “black Indians,” Mulroy proposes that they are maroon descendants who inhabit their own racial and cultural category, which he calls “Seminole maroon.” Mulroy plumbs the historical record to show clearly that, although allied with the Seminoles, these maroons formed independent and autonomous communities that dealt with European American society differently than either Indians or African Americans did. Mulroy describes the freedmen’s experiences as runaways from southern plantations, slaves of American Indians, participants in the Seminole Wars, and emigrants to the West. He then recounts their history during the Civil War, Reconstruction, enrollment and allotment under the Dawes Act, and early Oklahoma statehood. He also considers freedmen relations with Seminoles in Oklahoma during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although freedmen and Seminoles enjoy a partially shared past, this book shows that the freedmen’s history and culture are unique and entirely their own.