NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCES THE INDIANA STATE LIBRARY: IN THE INDIANA STATE LIBRARY SERVING HOOSIERS SINCE 1825 This brochure is intended as a starting point for resources on Native Americans in the Genealogy Collection of the Indiana VISIT THE INDIANA Native American State Library. Additional resources on the STATE LIBRARY Sources in the history of Native Americans can be found Indiana State Library Everyone is welcome to visit the Library. throughout the Library. Genealogy Collection Staff are available to assist patrons with The Reference & Government Services their research questions. Librarians with Collection holds a variety of materials expertise in a variety of fields are on hand such as federal publications which provide to provide guidance and information. extensive historical information by Arrange for a class, club, department, or documenting the relationship between organization to visit the Library. Staff can the US government and native peoples. provide tours geared toward the needs of the group, or can assist the group in The Indiana Collection has manuscript preparing for a research visit. holdings showing the interactions between Miamis, Potawatomis, and white Genealogy Collection settlers; histories and biographies Indiana State Library provide additional information about 315 W. Ohio Street Native Americans who live in Indiana Indianapolis, IN 46202 today. Bibliographies from the Indiana Phone: 317-232-3689 Collection’s holdings are available from the State Library’s website. TDD: 317-232-7763

www.library.IN.gov The Library’s online catalog will identify GENEALOGY additional materials that may prove Email from webpage: Ask-a-Librarian substantial in your research. Librarians are Cover photograph of Gabriel Godfroy of the Miami Indians in Indiana, ca. 1909, at right. Picture COLLECTION also available to assist you in your needs. Collection, Manuscript Section, Indiana Division.

Revised 5/11 www.library.IN.gov SELECTED NATIVE Index to Marriages, First United States Court, Microfilm Northern District, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1832 Census of the 1890-1907 (976.6 I38) AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY Creek Indians Taken by Books and Pamphlets Index to the 1835 Census of the Cherokee Parsons and Abbott Indians East of the Mississippi (929.11 I38i) Ashton, Sharron Standifer, 1880 and 1890 Census Roll, 1835, of the Census, Canadian District, Cherokee Jordan, Jerry Wright, Cherokee by Blood: Records Cherokee Indians East of Nation, Indian Territory (976.6 A829e) of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court the Mississippi and Index of Claims, 1906-1910 (929.11 J82c vols.1-9) Bogle, Dixie, Cherokee Nation Births and Enrollment Cards of the Deaths 1884-1901 (976.6 B675chb) Lennon, Rachal Mills, Tracing Ancestors Among Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 the Five Civilized Tribes: Southeastern Indians Bogle, Dixie, Cherokee Nation Marriages Final Roll of Citizens and Freedman of the Five Prior to Removal (929.11 L567t) 1884-1901 (976.6 B675che) Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory as Approved Miller, Guion, and Jeff Bowen, Eastern Cherokee by the Secretary of the Interior on or Before March 4, Bowen, Jeff, Chickasaw by Blood Enrollment by Blood: from the U.S. Court of Claims, 1907 with Supplement, September 25, 1914 Cards (929.11 B786c) 1906-1910 (929.11 E13c) US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Letters Received by Bowen, Jeff, Indian Wills, 1911-1921: Records Page, Jo Ann Curls, Extract of the Rejected the Office, 1824-1881 (Miami Agency) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (929.11 B786I) Applications of the Guion Miller Rolls of the Okl. Genealogical Society, Compilation of Records Brelsford, Bridgie Brill, Indians of Eastern Cherokee (G 929.11 P132e 4 vols.) from the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory Montgomery Co., Indiana (977.201 M788b) Pangburn, Richard L., Indian Blood Websites Burrows, Don, Indian Names (929.4 B972i) (929.11 P191i vols.1&2) www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ - A listing Byers, Paula, Native American Genealogical Slevin, Ruth M., Index to Blacks, Indians, of websites regarding Native American Genealogy Sourcebook (929.11 N278g) Chinese, Mulattoes in the Indiana 1880 www.ancestry.com - Subscription databases, Carselowey, James Manford, Cherokee Census (977.2 S632ib) available through Ancestry Library Edition at Pioneers (929.11 C321c) Starr, Emmet McDonald, Old Cherokee Families, the Indiana State Library, include the Dawes “Old Families & Their Genealogy” (929.11 S796o) Carter, Kent, The Dawes Commission and the Commission Index and the 1900 Indian Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893- Swanton, John Reed, The Indian Tribes of North Territory Federal Census 1914 (929.11 C323) America (929.11S972I) www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/ Coombs, Leonard A., American Indian Timmons, Boyce D. & Alice Tyner, Authenticated Native American Records at the National Archives Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Rolls of 1880, Cherokee Nation, Indian www.cyndislist.com/native.htm - Over 350 Library: A Select Bibliography (16.929 C775) Territory (976.6 A979 1978) Native American sites are listed D.A.R., African American and American Tyner, James W., Those Who Cried: The 16,000: www.distantcousin.com/links/ethnic/native/tri Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War A Record of the Individual Cherokees Listed in the be.html– Lists links to websites by respective tribes (973.34 A11af) United States Official Census of the Cherokee Nation Above sketch by J. Scott Williams, used in preparation for the Hoskins, Shirley, Cherokee Blood (976.6 H826c) Conducted in 1835 (929.11 T988t) murals in the Indiana State Library. Picture Collection, Manuscript Section, Indiana Division.