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E- Resources (Burton Historical Collection)

American Indian Research Sources

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Anderson, William L. & Lewis, James A. A guide to Cherokee documents in foreign archives. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, c 1983, 751 p. Native American Bibliography Series: No. 4
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C225h
Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. How to research American blood lines: a manual on Indian genealogical research, South Prairie, WA: Meico Associates, 1984, 81 p.
016.97
C421a 
Chepesiuk, Ronald. American Indian archival material: a guide to holdings in the Southeast. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1982, 325 p.
I970.6
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Crow, John. 1997-98 Indian country address book, Nyack, NY: Todd, c 1997, 351 p.
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Danky, James Philip. Native American periodicals and newspapers, 1828-1982. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984, 532 p.
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Ellsworth, Carole. 1900 U.S. census of the Cherokee Indian Nation, Indian Territory; now Muskogee & Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, gore, Okla.: C. Ellsworth and S. Emler, 1982-
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Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Research Dept. Major genealogical record sources of Indians of the United States, 1968, 6 p.
I  H131r Hale, Duane Kendall. Researching and writing tribal histories, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Indian Press, 1991, 83 p.
I970.6
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1996
 
Native American directory. San Carlos, AZ: National Native American Cooperative, 1996, 584 p.
I 970.6
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Native Americans information directory. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., c 1993
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Newberry Library, Chicago. Edward  E. Ayer Collection. Dictionary catalog of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of American and Indians in the Newberry Library. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1961, 161 v.
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Pangburn, Richard. Indian blood: finding your Native American ancestor, v.1 Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Seneca and Cherokee, 40 p.
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Pangburn, Richard. Indian blood II: further advice in finding your Native American ancestor, Louisville, KY; Butler Books, 1996, 444 p.

PERIODICALS

CurrentJournal of American Indian Family Research.

 SOURCES BY TRIBE

 CATAWBA

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Watson, Ian. Catawba Indian genealogy. Geneseo, NY: Feneseo Foundation, 1995, 113 p.

 CHEROKEE

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Ashton, Sharron Standifer. 1880 and 1890 census, Canadian district, Cherokee nation, Indian Territory. Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1978, 90 p.
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Baker, Jack D. Cherokee emigration rolls, 1817- Oklahoma City, OK: Baker Publishing Co., 1977, 67 p.
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Bell, George. Genealogy of old and new Cherokee Indian families. 1st ed., Bartlesville, OK, 1972, 567 p.
I 572C5
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Blankenship, Bob. Cherokee roots. 2nd ed. Cherokee, N.C.,  c 1992, 2 v.
I 572C5
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Bogle, Dixie. Cherokee Nation births and deaths, 1884-1901 abstracted from Indian chieftain and Daily chieftain newspapers. Owensboro, KY: Cook & McDowell Publications, 1980, 129 p.
I 572C5
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Bogle, Dixie. Cherokee Nation marriages, 1884-1901. Owensboro, KY: Cooke and Mcdowell Publications, 1980, 120 p.
I 572C5
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Carselowey, James. Cherokee old timers. Adair, OK: Carselowey, 1972, 100 p. 
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Carselowey, James. Cherokee pioneers. Adair, OK: Carselowy, 1961, 75 p.
BHC Film
#1118
1890 census of Oklahoma and Indian Territories
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Finger, John R. the eastern band of Cherokee, 1819-1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984, 253 p.
I 973.74
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Gaines, W. Craig. The Confederate Cherokee: John Drew’s regiment of mounted rifles. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989, 178 p.
I 572C5
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Hampton, David Keith. Cherokee old settlers: the 1896 old settler payroll, s.l., s.n., c 1993, 325 p.
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Hampton, David Keith. Cherokee reservees. Oklahoma City, OK: Baker Publishing Co., c 1979, 31 p.
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Hoskins, Shirley. Cherokee blood. Chattonooga: S. Hoskins, 1982, v 1-3
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Index to marriages, First United States Court, Northern District, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1890-1907. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Genealogical Society; no. 6
BHC  Film
#1495
Indian census rolls, 1884-1940. 1915 (BHC has 1898-1939)
I 572C5
J764c
Jordan, Jerry Wright. Cherokee by blood: records of eastern Cherokee ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1910. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1978-1990, v. 1-6 (Based on the Report of Guion Miller, Special Commissioner to the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1910) 
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Mooney, Thomas G. Exploring your Cherokee ancestry; a basic genealogical research guide. Talequah, OK: Cherokee National Historical Society, c 1990, 58 p.
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1900 U.S. census of the Cherokee Indian Nation, Indian…v.1-5
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Siler, David W. The Eastern Cherokee: a census of the Cherokee nation in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia in 1851. Cottonport,: Polyanthos, 1972, 96 p.
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Starr, Emmet. Old Cherokee families: notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Oklahoma City; Baker Publishing Co., 1987, v.1 Letter books A-F, v.2 Letter books G-L, Index to letter books v.3 Grant
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U.S. Census Office. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina. 1892, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Printing Office, 1892, 24 p. (maps)
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Wever, Orpha Jewell. Probate records, Northern District Cherokee Nation. Northeast Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Vinita, OK, 1982-1983, 2 v.

  CHICKASAW

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Tedford, Sandra Heney. Chickasaw Nation, Indian Trerritory (Oklahoma) marriage books. Bk. A, Bk. B. Farmersville, TX: S. Tedford, c 1992, p.
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Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory (Oklahoma) Marriage Book D, c 1996 , 99 p.
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1890 census of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Bk. 1 Pontotoe Co., Bk. 2 Pickens Co., Bk. 3 Tishomingo & Panola Counties. Purcell, Okla.: McClain County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992, v2-3 
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Lemons, Nova A. Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Miami, OK: Timbercreek, 1991- , v.1-2

CHIPPEWA AND OTTAWA

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Chippewa and Dakota Indians: a subject catalog of books, pamphlets, periodical articles and manuscripts in the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN: the society, 1986, 131 p.
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Dickson, Charles K. 1910 annuity roll of Ottawas and Chippewas in Michigan. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, group 75, Washington, D.C.: National Archives & Records Service, 1972, 208 p.

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Durant, Horace B. 1908 census of the Chippewa Indians in Michigan. Washington, National Archives and Record Service, 1971, 327 p. (also BHC film #686)

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1870 annuity payrolls of the Ottawas and Chippewas Michigan. Washington, D.C., National Archives, General Administration, 1983, 74 p. (also BHC Film #1295)

Res. Sect.
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Gilbert, Henry C. List of personal belongings to the mixed bloods of the Chippewas of Lake Superior. Dec. 10, 1856.

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Lantz, Raymond C. Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1870-1909 Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1991, 266 p.

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U.S. treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Indians, Sept. 30, 1854, 9 p.

 CHOCTAW

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Goss, Joe R. A complete roll of all Choctaw claimants and their heirs. St. Louis, 1899 reprinted by A. R. Conway, 193 p.
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Strickland, Ben. Records of Choctaw Trading Post, St. Stephens, Mississippi Territory, 1803-1815: 1808 & 1810 census, Washington County, Mississippi Territory, Moss Co.: Miss.: B & J Strickland, 1984 109 p.

 CREEK 

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Index to marriages, First United States Court, Northern District, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1890-1907. Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Special Publication, no. 6

MENOMINEE

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United States Board of Indian Commissioners. Report on Menominee Indian Reservation, by Edward E. Ayer, member of the Board of Indian Commissioners,  Washington, DC , 1914, 155 p.

 POTAWATOMI

BHC Film
#1495
Indian census rolls, 1884-1940, 1915 (BHC has 1898-1939)

 SHAWNEE

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Caldwell, Martha Belle. Annals of Shawnee Methodist mission and Indian manual labor school. Topeka, Kan: Kansas State Historical Society, 1939, 120 p.
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Fay, George Emory. Land cessions in Utah and Colorado by the Ute Indians, 1861-1899. Greeley: University of Northern Colorado, Museum of Anthropology, 1970, 60 p.

 WINNEBAGO

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Fay, George Emory. Treaties between the Winnebago Indians and the United States of America. 1836-1865, Greeley, 1967, 1 v.

 WYANDOT

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“Wyandot Indian census. 1855” Kansas City Genealogist, v.28, p.24-53

SOURCES BY STATE

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U.S. Subsistence Dept…. Correspondence on the subject of the emigration of Indians between the 30th November, 1831, and 27th December, 1833, with abstracts of expenditures by disbursing agents, in the removal and subsistence of Indians, &. furnished in answer to a resolution of the Senate, of 27th December, 1833, by the Commissary General of subsistence. Washington, Printed by D. Green, 1834-35, 5 v.

 FLORIDA

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Lantz, Raymond, C. Seminole Indians of Florida 1875-1879. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., c 1995, 427 p.
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Lantz, Raymond, C. Seminole Indians of Florida 1850-1874. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1994, 415 p.

 GEORGIA

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Shadburn, Don L. Cherokee planters in Georgia 1832-1838: historical essays on eleven counties in the Cherokee Nation of Georgia. Roswell, Ga.: W.H. Wolfe Associates, Historical Publications Division, 1990, 422 p.

INDIANA

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Tregillis, Helen Cox. The Indians of Illinois; a history and genealogy. s.l.: H.C. Tregillis, c 1983, 134 p.

 MAINE

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Maine Historical Society. The Indians of Maine: a bibliographical guide. Portland; 1972, 44 p.

 MASSACHUSETTS

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Wright, Harry Andrew. Indian deeds of Hampden County: being copies of all land transfers from the Indians recorded in the county of Hampden, Massachusetts, and some deeds from other sources, together with notes and translations of Indian place names, Springfield Mass.: 1905, 194 p.

 MICHIGAN

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Lantz, Raymond C. Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan 1855-1868
BHC Film
#1428
Michigan Indian Agency Register of land grants, 1854-1875.
BHC Film
#1428
Records of the Michigan Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1814-1851
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Reuter, Dorothy. Methodist Indian ministries in Michigan, 1830-1990, s.l., KD. Reuter, c 1993, 434 p.

 NEW YORK

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Prevost, Toni Jollay. Indians from New York in Wisconsin and elsewhere: a genealogy reference. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995, 3 v.
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The six nations of New York: the 1892 United States extra census, Cayugas, Mohawks (St. Regis), Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, Tuscaroras. The United States Extra  Census Bulletin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995

 OKLAHOMA TERRITORY

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Eastern Oklahoma Indians and pioneers: Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Poteau, OK : Family Heritage Resources, c 1994,  v.1-3
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Goodwin, Kenneth. An index to area Indian cemeteries. Lawton, Okla.: Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1989, 103 p.

 VERMONT

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Calloway, Colin G. The western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: war, migration, and the survival of an Indian people. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c 1990, 346 p. Civilization of the American Indian Series, v.197

WISCONSIN

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Munnell, Michael D. American Indian marriage record directory for Ashland, Wisconsin, 1874-1917. Duluth, Minn.: Chippewa Heritage Publications, c 1993, 279 p.

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