Footnote Announces Their New Native American Interactive Collection

We are excited to announce the release of our latest interactive collection: the Native American collection. Working together with the National Archives and Allan County Library, Footnote.com has created a collection featuring over 1.8 million records that will help people discover new details about Native American history and genealogy.

Visit the Native American Microsite today and explore records only found on Footnote.com:

* Ratified Indian Treaties - dating back to 1722

* Indian Census Rolls - featuring personal information including age, place of residence and degree of Indian blood

* The Guion Miller Roll - perhaps the most important source of Cherokee genealogical research

* Dawes Packets - containing original applications for tribal enrollments

* And other documents relating to the Five Civilized Tribes

Resources for Local Native American Research

November is American Indian Heritage Month, so I thought I would share a list of resources for local Native American research. This list was compiled by Larry Fine for the Colville [Washington] Stake Family History Conference held April 26, 2008.

Microfilmed Native American Records on Permanent Loan at the Colville Family History Center
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Colville Tribe Indian Records

• 1020972: BIA - Indian History Cards, Late 1800 - Early 1900
• 1020973: Births, Marriages, Deaths
• 1020974: Births and Deaths, 1909 - 1942
• 1020975: Births and Deaths, 1914 - 1943
• 1020976: Births, Deaths, Marriages: 1914 - 1943
• 1020976: BIA - Annuity Roll Records, 1892 - 1948
• 05742208: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1885 - 1891: Coeur d'Alene, Kalispel, Lake, Spokane, Nez Perce, Okanogan, Moses, Yellow Bulls
• 05742209: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1892 - 1897: Okanogan, Nez Perce, Colville, Lake, Spokane, Moses, Nespelem, San Poil, Coeur d'Alene
• 05742210: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1898 - 1903: Spokane, Moses, Okanogan, Nez Perce, Coeur d'Alene, Lake, Colville
• 05742211: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1904 - 1908: Spokane, Colville, Coeur d'Alene, Nez Perce, Moses, Okanogan, Lake, Sanpoil, Nespelem
• 05742212: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1909 - 1913: Spokane, Sanpoil, Moses, Nez Perce, Nespelem, Okanogan, Lake, Colville, Calispel, Wenatchi, Chewelah, Kootnai
• 05742215: BIA - Indian Census Rolls, 1938 - 1938: Supplemental rolls of Colville and Spokane JOPA (also available at Foley Center Library, Gonzaga University)
• 16711660: Washington - St. Paul - Jesuit Mission - with baptism registers, various entries from 1839 - 1870
• 16711661: Washington - St. Regis - Jesuit Mission - with various baptism, death, and marriage records, 1848 - 1917
• 16711662: Washington - St. Regis - Jesuit Mission - burial records, 1953 - 1887; baptism and marriage records, 1852 - 1866; St. Francis Regis Quarterly Indian School reports, 1893; Colville Reservation census,1902 - 1918, 1923, and 1937; Spokane Indian census, 1919 and 1927
• 16711663: Washington - St. Regis: papers and correspondence
• 16711664: Washington - St. Mary's: mission parish census, 1948 - 1949
  

Libraries

• Colville Public Library
• Foley Center Library, Gonzaga University, Spokane - Archives Section
• John F. Kennedy Library, Eastern Washington University, Cheney - Archives Section
• Kettle Falls Public Library
• Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room
• Holland and Terrell Libraries, Washington State University, Pullman - Archives Section

Sources to Consider

• Family History Center, LDS Church
• Stevens County Historical Society (research staff available): family files, census records, Watson papers, library, data base
• Northeast Washington Genealogical Society (research staff available)
• Stevens County courthouse records (and other county courthouse records, too)
  
• Individual tribal headquarters: enrollment records, probate records, history, archives
• Bureau of Indian Affairs: probate records
• Funeral home records
• Local newspapers
• Museums
• National Archives, Pacific Alaska Region, Seattle
• Eastern Washington Regional Archives, Cheney

Items to Check

• Annuity records of various tribes
• Birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records or registers
• Books: history, biographies
• Census: Federal and tribal
• Family history files
• Land patents
• Military discharges
• Obituaries
• Oral history reports
• Probate records with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or Office of Special Trustee
• Tribal allotments
• Tribal enrollment records
• Tribal school enrollments
• Wills