Native Study Website
I recently came across the Native Study website. http://www.nativestudy.com/index.html This site has several books of transcribed original records. For the most part, records deal with the following...
View ArticleThe Curtis Act of 1898
Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States, is probably best remembered for the Curtis Act of 1898. The Curtis Act of 1898 was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act that brought...
View Article1757 Letter from the Chiefs of the Catawba Nation to SC Governor Lyttleton
A letter signed on the 16th of June 1757 by the Chiefs of the Catawba Nation and several formerly separate tribes within that Nation, says, among much else, that: “Our brothers, the Cherocees, has sent...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Indian Traders 1750-1754
The study of traders is important to the study of Native American tribes and ancestors. Most, if not all, traders established Native relationships, and by that, I mean marital or intimate...
View ArticleTracing Cherokee Ancestors
Several years, ago – we’re talking in the decades now – before the internet and e-mail….you know, back in the dark ages…I visited the Muskogee County Genealogical Society in Muskogee, OK. I was that...
View ArticleAmerican Indian Records on Ancestry
Recently Ancestry.com added several sets of American Indian records to their collection, and some are free. This link should take you directly to the American Indian Collection search function at...
View ArticleJames Logan Colbert of the Chickasaws and Allied Trader Families
The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Volume XX, No.2, May 1994, pg.82 contains an article titled “James Logan Colbert of the Chickasaw, The Man and the Myth.” This article is reproduced at...
View Article1837 Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Jan. 17, 1837. | 11 Stats., 573. | Proclamation Mar. 24, 1837. Page 486 Articles of convention and agreement made on the seventeenth day of January, 1837, between the undersigned chiefs and...
View ArticleAntiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes
This book, by Charles Jones, written in 1873, is extremely interesting and reveals a great deal about the culture of these tribes. There are areas that discuss conjurers, marriage and divorce,...
View ArticleJackson Purchase Negotiations with the Chickasaws
This was one of several articles found in an old scrapbook in the 1980s in the library at Tazewell, TN. I copied the entire scrapbook given that I realized many of the articles are of historical...
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