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Pub. Date
c2013-2014
Language
English
Description
These transcriptions from the records of the Dawes Commission concern files of persons claiming entitlement to a portion of the Cherokee tribal lands (under the Dawes Act) in 1906, based on the intermarriage of a Cherokee and a white person. In all, nearly 4,000 individuals made application on this basis; however, the Commission of the Five Civilized Tribes affirmed a mere 286 as entitled Intermarried Whites, far fewer than the numbers of Intermarried...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The primary impetus for most early-day legitimations seems to have been the need to confer rights of heirship for stepchildren or for children born out of wedlock. These records are taken primarily from the Minutes of the County Courts. Entries from the Circuit Court are so identified. Those entries taken from the legislative records are labels TPA (Tennessee Private Acts).
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