Located in the Oklahoma Collection.

Note: Freedmen are Afro-Americans. Can be used as a finding aid or index to the Dawes Commission, 1896-1909. Instructions: Look up name and find their roll # in v. 1, Index to the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes. Then go to v. 2, the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, look up roll # to get census (card) #. To find the census cards see: United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes / Enrollment of the Five Civilized Tribes,...

"In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last decade. Hitchcock's report, filed after four months of travel, exposed such a high level of graft and corruption that his investigation was suppressed and...