Current Image Count 75,946 99% complete

Watch! Receive email when more images or Member Discoveries are added.

Watch

Dawes Enrollment Cards

Enrollment cards were created by the Dawes Commission to record information about family groups within the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations. They list family relationships, degree of native blood, age, tribal enrollment, and other data useful to establishing family connections and Native American ancestry. Continue…

Recent discoveries in Dawes Enrollment Cards

 
Next
Next
Footnote Free Trial Access Everything. Start Now!

Source Information

The National Archives

Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914. Original data from: The National Archives

Popular Titles

Find something interesting in the Dawes Enrollment Cards? Write a Footnote Page about it—it's Free

What people are saying

Great resource for history buffs, students and researchers who need primary sources.

— Lifehacker