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Genealogy and Family History: Native American

A guide to assist those interested in starting a family history project.

November is National Native American Heritage Month

The TMCC Library has many sources to assist you with researching your Native American ancestry. This page will help you get started.

TMCC Library Reference Books: Paper Format

1932 Nopi and Navajo Native American Census, with Birth and Death Rolls by Jeff Bowen
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.H7 B77 2013
ISBN: 9780806356280
Publication Date: 2013
Cherokee by Blood by Jerry W. Jordan
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 J63 1987
ISBN: 9781556130489
Publication Date: 2009
Cherokee Connections by Myra Vanderpool Gormley
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 G66 2005
ISBN: 0806315792
Publication Date: 2005
Cherokee Descendants by Jeff Bowen
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 B745 2011
ISBN: 9780806355276
Publication Date: 2011
Cherokee Roots by Bob Blankenship
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 B53 1992
ISBN: 9780963377418
Publication Date: 1992
The Dawes Commission by Kent Carter
Call Number: Gen Ref E78.I5 C37 1999
ISBN: 9780916489854
Publication Date: 1999
DNA for Native American Genealogy by Roberta Estes
Call Number: Gen Ref CS21.3 .E78 2021
ISBN: 9780806321189
Publication Date: 2021
The Final Rolls by Henry Dawes; U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Interior. Indian Territory Division. (Produced by)
Call Number: Gen Ref E78 .I5 D394
ISBN: 9781544928852
Publication Date: 2017
Native American Wills and Probate Records, 1911-1921 by Jeff Bowen
Call Number: Gen Ref E98.G44 N38 2009
ISBN: 9780806354019
Publication Date: 2009
North Carolina Eastern Cherokee Indian Census, 1898-1899, 1904, 1906, 1909-1912, 1914. Revised and Expanded Edition by Jeff Bowen
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 B7455 1998
ISBN: 9780806356068
Publication Date: 2012
Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman (Classic Reprint) by Wyndham Robertson
Call Number: Gen Ref CS71 .R747 2019
ISBN: 9781330171264
Publication Date: 2019
Seminole of Florida Indian Census 1930-1940, with Birth and Death Records 1930-1938 by Jeff Bowen
Call Number: Gen Ref E99 .S28 B69 2011
ISBN: 9780806355474
Publication Date: 2011
Starr Roll, 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls). Volume One by Jeff Bowen (Contribution by)
Call Number: Gen Ref E99 .C5 S73 2014
ISBN: 9780806356990
Publication Date: 2014
Tracing Ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes by Rachal Mills Lennon
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 L375 2002
ISBN: 9780806316888
Publication Date: 2005
Western Navajo Reservation by Jeff Bowen (Contribution by)
Call Number: Gen Ref E99 .B596 2015
ISBN: 9780806357669
Publication Date: 2015

Links

Britannica: Five Civilized Tribes
Cherokee Nation Research Center
The Cherokee National Research Center is a state-of-the-art facility that is home to a collection of thousands of Cherokee artifacts and archives formerly housed at the Cherokee Heritage Center.
FamilySearch: Beginning Research of United States Indigenous Peoples
NARA: American Indian and Alaska Native Records
NARA: Exploring the Records of the Dawes Commission
These records are used by tribal members and tribal governments to prove tribal lineage. Genealogists use the records to document family history
NARA: Native American Heritage
National Park Service: The Five Civilized Tribes
Tracing Native Ancestry
U.S. Depart. of the Interior: Trace Indian Ancestry
U.S. Depart. of the Interior: Tracing American Indian and Alaska Native Ancestry

Newspapers

Cherokee Phoenix
Articles presented on this site were originally published between 1828 and 1834 in the Cherokee Phoenix, the national newspaper of the Cherokee Nation
The Online Books Page: Cherokee Phoenix Archives

TMCC Library Books: Paper Format

Cherokee Proud by Tony Mack McClure
Call Number: Gen Ref E99.C5 M382 1999
ISBN: 9780965572224
Publication Date: 1999
Cherokee Roots by Bob Blankenship
Call Number: Gen Circ E99.C5 B53 1992
ISBN: 9780963377418
Publication Date: 1992
Pocahontas by Paula Gunn Allen
Call Number: Gen Circ E99.P85 P57145 2003
ISBN: 9780060730604
Publication Date: 2004
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend
Call Number: General Circ E99 .P85 P5797 2005
ISBN: 9780809077380
Publication Date: 2005

TMCC Library eBooks

Bending Their Way Onward: Creek Indian Removal in Documents by Christopher D. Haveman (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780803296985
Publication Date: 2018
The Cherokee Diaspora by Gregory D. Smithers
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780300169607
Publication Date: 2015
Documents of American Indian Removal by Donna Martinez
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781440854194
Publication Date: 2018
From Fort Marion to Fort Sill: A Documentary History of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War, 1886-1913 by Alicia Delgadillo (Editor); Miriam Perrett (Introduction by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780803243798
Publication Date: 2013
Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870 by Sami Lakomaki (Lakomäki)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780300182316
Publication Date: 2014
The North American Indian Volume 15 - Southern California - Shoshoneans, the Dieguenos, Plateau Shoshoneans, the Washo by Edward S. Curtis
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780403084142
Publication Date: 2015
The Politics of Indian Removal by Michael D. Green
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780803270152
Publication Date: 1985
Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South by Christopher D. Haveman
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780803273924
Publication Date: 2016