Enrollment and Freedmen Rolls
Getting to know the Rolls
The enrollment and citizenship rolls—including the Baker, Dawes, Guion Miller, Roblin, Kern‑Clifton, and Wallace Rolls—were created to document identities, ancestry, and legal status for specific Indigenous and African American groups. These records supported:
- ➡️ Assigning land allotments
- ➡️ Determining citizenship / tribal membership
- ➡️ Distributing reparations / settlement payments
- ➡️ Documenting Freedmen (formerly enslaved African Americans within Native nations)
Note on language: Terms such as Freedmen, By Blood, and Intermarried Whites reflect the historic record context and administrative categories of the period.
Find the Enrollment & Freedmen Rolls
| Baker Roll (1924–1929) — Eastern Band of Cherokee (North Carolina) | |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| Index to application numbers and Names in the Baker Roll - PDF | |
| Ancestry.com | |
| Baker Roll | |
| FamilySearch | |
| Baker revised roll, 1967 | Henderson roll, 1835 |
| Baker roll, 2nd copy, 1924 | Henderson roll index, 1835 |
| Baker roll, 1924 | Miller roll, 1909 |
| Churchill roll, 1908 | |
| OHS | |
| Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) | |
| Guion Miller Roll (1906–1909) — Eastern & Western Cherokee (Dispersed) | ||||||||
| AccessGenealogy | Ancestry.com | FamilySearch | Fold3 | NARA | ||||
| Wallace Roll (1890s) — Cherokee Freedmen | ||||||
| AccessGenealogy | NARA | Oklahoma Historical Society | ||||
| Baker Roll (1924–1929) — Eastern Band of Cherokee (North Carolina) | |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| Index to application numbers and Names in the Baker Roll - PDF | |
| Ancestry.com | |
| Baker Roll | |
| FamilySearch | |
| Baker revised roll, 1967 | Henderson roll, 1835 |
| Baker roll, 2nd copy, 1924 | Henderson roll index, 1835 |
| Baker roll, 1924 | Miller roll, 1909 |
| Churchill roll, 1908 | |
| OHS | |
| Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) | |
| Wallace Roll (1890s) — Cherokee Freedmen | ||||||
| AccessGenealogy | Ancestry.com | FamilySearch | NARA | |||
How to Use These Rolls (Quick Start)
Search broadly: check Final Rolls and Enrollment Cards; then look for applications/testimony when available.
Track card numbers & households: cards group family members.
Expect variants: surnames, tribal towns, and spellings shift over time.
Verify with other sources: cross‑reference with Freedmen’s Bureau, USCT, Cohabitation, and Probate pages on BPOG.
- 1. Dawes
- 2. Guion Miller
- 3. Wallace
- 4. Kern-Clifton
- 5. Guion Miller
- 6. Baker
- 7. Guion Miller
- 8. Guion Miller
- 9. Roblin
Dawes Rolls (1898–1907) — Five Tribes (OK)
- ➡️ Use: Land allotments and tribal membership records.
- ➡️ Record sets you’ll use: Final Rolls (published 1914); Enrollment/Census Cards (M1186); Applications/Packets (M1301); allotment jackets; agency maps/files.
- ➡️ What appears on an enrollment card: Card no.; household grouping; names & ages; parents/spouse; status (Freedmen / By Blood / Intermarried Whites / Minors / Newborns); notes on prior applications.
- ➡️ Quick search workflow: 1) Find tribe + roll no. + card no. (OHS/NARA) → 2) Pull M1186 card (FamilySearch) → 3) Pull M1301 packet (NARA) → 4) Record full citation.
“YouTube: The Dawes Act (overview of allotment policy).”
How to cite (NARA) and Dawes Research Portal.
U.S. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, Final Rolls (1914), [Nation], [category e.g., Freedmen], roll no. ___; census card no. ___; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Dawes Research Portal.
Enrollment/Census Card (M1186): U.S. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, Census (Enrollment) Cards, 1898–1914 (NARA Microfilm M1186), [Nation], [category], card no. ___, image ___; NARA/FamilySearch.
Application Packet (M1301): Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898–1914 (NARA Microfilm M1301), [Nation], application no. ___ (corresponds to census card no. ___); NARA.
| Nation | Seat (City) | County |
| Cherokee | Tahlequah | Cherokee |
| Choctaw | Durant | Bryan |
| Chickasaw | Ada | Pontotoc |
| Muscogee (Creek) | Okmulgee | Okmulgee |
| Seminole | Wewoka | Seminole |
Explore Dawes Rolls by County (Five Tribes)
“Hover over a county to see its name, tribal nation, and the types of Dawes records available (Freedmen, By Blood, applications). Pins mark tribal seats and historic enrollment offices. Click a shaded county or pin to open the records page with links, context, and research tips. Use the Select menu to jump directly to a county.”