What can I find here?
- English and Indian name of the person
- Age
- Relation to head of family
- Allotment Number
- Legal Description of the Allotment
- A Map of Allotment Location on the Original U.S. Survey Map
Added Possible Benefits--In most cases you also will be able to see on the same schedule or map many other allotments that were recorded along with your family's allotment. Many people participated in the allotment process at the same time in kinship or neighboring groups and the resultant records can provide clues to other keys for searching.
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Historic Allotment Records Now Available for Tribes in Western, Central, and North Central Oklahoma
Note: The records that are available vary by tribe.
Records for the Five Civilized Tribes and the Osage Tribe are not included in AIARC's Database.
At the time of allotment, each individual that was qualified for an allotment was deeded in U.S. Government trust a plot of land--usually 160 acres--that was recorded in a Schedule of Allotments, a ledger that contained the allottee’s name, the allotment number, and the legal description of the tract of land, and often some additional gender and family information. Also, the tract of land was identified and recorded on U.S. Survey Tract Maps with the name of allottee and the allotment number. In many cases, a census was taken by the officers assigned to the various reservations, resulting in a Census Card on which was recorded allottee name, number, family status, and legal information.
Information that is available for various groups of tribes:
Group A. Allottees in the following tribes should have available from the data base a listing in the Schedule of Allotments, the allotment recorded on a township Map, and possibly a Census card are:
Caddo, Wichita, Delaware
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache
Note: Census cards were prepared and archives for only about 2/3rds of the allottees in the above named tribes.
Group B. Allottees of the following tribes should have available from the data base a listing in the Schedule of Allotments and the allotment recorded on a township Map:
Cheyenne Arapaho
Group C. Allottees in the following tribes should have available from the data base a listing in the Schedule of Allotments:
Absentee Shawnee, Citizen Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca, Sac and Fox
Additional is being collected continually as it becomes available from Freedom of Information Act requests to the Department of the Interior.
Any and all records collected for you are treated as confidential and privileged.
Also check Cyndi's List for an extensive bank of genealogical data and web sites at Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet http://www.cyndislist.com/linkto.htm.