Records Relating to Indian Removal.

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Records Relating to Indian Removal.

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Most of the records relate to the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes, though there are a few documents concerning the removal of Indians from the Old Northwest. Many of the records relate not to actual removal but to the enforcement of those provisions of treaties concerning reservations in the East and compensation of Indians for losses. The records include reports, correspondence, contracts, and financial records of the Commissary General of Subsistence who, before October 1836, furnished transportation, rations, rifles, and other articles specified by removal treaties. The Cherokee removal records include a register of Cherokees who wished to remain in the East, 1817-19, eastern Cherokee census rolls, 1835-84, emigration rolls, 1817-38, and records of four boards of commissioners established to adjudicate claims. The Chickasaw removal records include letters sent, 1832-61, census and muster rolls, 1837-39, and land locations and sale records under articles of the treaty of 1834. Records relating to Choctaw removal include census rolls for 1831 and 1856, emigration lists, 1831-57, land reserve and land sale records, records of commissions appointed to adjudicate claims under articles of the treaty of 1830, and some statements of schedules dated as late as 1906. The Creek removal records include a census, 1833, emigration lists, 1836-38, an index to Creek land reserves and land locations registers, and records concerning the sales of Creek lands and of a commission appointed to investigate reports of frauds in the sale of Creek lands. Records relating to the removal of other tribes consist of muster rolls of the Apalachicola and Seminole, Kickapoo, New York, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Quapaw, and Wyandot Indians.

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