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Dawes Cards and Indian Census Data

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  • Melinda Miller

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After the passage of the Curtis Act in 1898, a Federal government commission was sent to Indian Territory to compile a descriptive list of citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes. The commissioners personally interviewed every tribal applicant. Key pieces of information, such as name, age, sex, tribal enrollment, and lineage, were recorded on cards. These interviews and cards provide an incredible level of detail about life among the Five Tribes at the turn of the century. The author describes the enrollment process in order to introduce social scientists to this unique resource. To demonstrate how the cards can be a valuable resource, she discusses a census sample that links Cherokee freedmen families across 40 years and three censuses. She then uses this data to analyze the consistency of the Dawes enrollment process.

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  • Melinda Miller, 2015. "Dawes Cards and Indian Census Data," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(4), pages 214-229, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vhimxx:v:48:y:2015:i:4:p:214-229
    DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2015.1013656
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    1. Carlos, Ann M. & Feir, Donna L. & Redish, Angela, 2022. "Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(2), pages 516-555, June.
    2. Melinda C. Miller, 2020. "“The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a Landholder”: Land and Racial Inequality in the Postbellum South," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(2), pages 381-394, May.
    3. Melinda C. Miller, 2018. "Destroyed by Slavery? Slavery and African American Family Formation Following Emancipation," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 55(5), pages 1587-1609, October.
    4. Carlos, Ann M., 2022. "The country that they built: The dynamic and complex indigenous economies in North America before 1492," QUCEH Working Paper Series 22-13, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
    5. Miller, Melinda, 2016. "Selection and historical height data: Evidence from the 1892 Boas sample of the Cherokee Nation," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 119-123.

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