Indian Reservations and the Allotment Era in Oklahoma - DVD

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The roots of many families in Oklahoma and surrounding states can be traced to the Indian reservation era in Oklahoma. Openings of the reservations some 120 years ago with homesteaders flooding into these former reservation boundaries areas created lasting informational links between between Indian people and neighbors.

The Reservation and Allotment Era in Oklahoma is a rich source for anyone searching for ancestry in the period from the 1850s to statehood in Oklahoma. This publication is presented in two parts.

Part One sets out the tumultuous history of Indian tribes being forcibly removed from their homelands to distant reservations and to Indian Territory in timeline form from the period 1802 to statehood in 1907. Major legislation creating the tools for removal is set out along with the vehement resistance by tribal leaders to the dismantling of their reservations in Oklahoma.

Part Two presents the first complete published set of details of the original Department of the Interior records of every individual allotment for the tribes in western and in central/northern Oklahoma. Original ledgers of legal description and age and gender are presented for every allottee plus the location of every allottee in handwritten form entered on U. S. Surveyed township maps for those those reservations in western Oklahoma. For some tribes census cards and family groupings for allottees are included.

Tribes in western Oklahoma for which allotment data is provided include the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and the Wichita, Caddo, and Delaware.

Reservations in central and northern Oklahoma for which allotment information is provided include those of Absentee Shawnee, Citizen Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria, Sac and Fox.