Sound research from Indian Territory involves researching the many thousands of records pertaining to the citizens of Indian Territory. Fortunately there are many records that remain that document the presence of Africans in the Territory. Although many current leaders elders and spokespersons wish to deny that Africans were a part of the Five Nations the following records will assist descendants of the Five Civilized Tribes in documenting their family history. Note that these records pertain to the Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaw Creek and Seminole nations of Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

*Tompkins Roll 1867-Cherokee Nation
*Index to the Tompkins Roll-Cherokee Nation
*1880 Census of Authenticated Cherokee Freedmen
*Wallace Roll 1890 - Cherokee Nation
*Index to the Wallace Roll
*Affidavits of the Wallace Rolls (National

Archives only.)
*1896 Freedmen Census
*Index to Freedman Census
*1897 Freedmen Strip Payment Roll
*Index to Freedmen Payment Roll
*Clifton Roll
*List of Colored Persons on the Clifton Roll who
were not on the 1880 Roll

[1 Oct 1999]