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Saponi member Lynzey posted a link to Dawes applications recently in this post:
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?p=36218#poststop
Turns out the website (the Internet Archive) has thousands of applications – they are scans of the original microfilms.
Applications from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Muskogee Area Office relating to enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes under the Act of 1896 [microform] (Volume Reel 0002 – Applications from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee Area Office, Relating to Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes under the Act of 1896
The index (Volume Reel 0001) is here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/applicationsfrom0001unit#page/n9/mode/2up
The volumes containing the actual applications are here:
All the applications I looked up were denied. Many have no supporting information, or even information about the residence of the applicant, but some do have many pages of affidavits which could be useful information – the link Lynzey posted has 50 pages of documents, for instance.
Sorry if everyone already knew about this – it’s news to me.
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