Records of the Land Division.

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Records of the Land Division.

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These consist of general records, including registers, 1855-96, to letters received and docket books for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1897-1910; surveying and allotting records, 1797-1919; platbooks, 1858-1923, allotment schedules, 1856-1935, and allotment records, 1856-89, of the Chippewa of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, the Red Lake and Pembina Chippeawa mixed bloods, the Indians of Michigan, and the mixed bloods allotted on the Nemeha Half-breed Reserve, 1856-89; land sale and lease records, including appraisements, 1844-1922, schedules of appraisements and reports, and records, 1861-85, relating to certificates of indebtedness for the Kansa (Kaw), Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi, Osage, and Winnebago Indians; records relating to the disposal of the Cherokee neutral lands, 1866-89, and to trust lands for the Chippewa and Munsee, the Kaw, the Confederated Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, Wea, and Iowa, the Kickapoo, Omaha, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Potawatomic, Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi and the Missouri, and the Winnebago Indians, 1857-1900; records concerning removals of restrictions on land sales and certificates of competency; patents, deed, and land lease records, 1855-1967; land reserve files comprise chiefly correspondence and legal documents relating to lands reserve by treaty or law for individual Indians, 1825-1907; Choctaw Net Proceeds Case records, 1875-98; military bounty land records, 1855-82; Indian Civil War military service claims, 1865-90. Claims of white settlers evicted from the Crow, Creek and Winnebago Reservations, 1890-1900; and Sioux property and allotment claims records, 1891-1946. There are enrollment records prepared in connection with land matters, including registers of Indian families of certain tribes; records, 1828-32, relating to the enrollment of California Indians authorized by an act of May 18, 1928; records relating to Cherokee citizenship and to enrollement of the eastern Cherokee, Choctaw Freedmen, Mississippi, Choctaw, Flathead, Osage, Ottawa in Kansas, Stockbridge and Munsee, and Indians of Washington State; applications and records concerning registration under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; and rolls for revisions of names of Indians at several agencies in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Other records of the Division relate to the right of attorneys to represent claimants before the Department of the Interior and its bureaus, 1876-1907, concern bonds and banks, 1904-24, or consitute miscellaneous reference material.

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