* History of the Cherokee Indians - Old Families and Their Genealogy. Written by Emmett Starr, this exhaustive genealogy contains over 8544 names and is a very important research tool. Click here for some of Starr's narrative. To see the surname index, click here. (This book ALONE is selling hardcopy for $60.00 at Genealogical Publishing Company as of Sept. 2003)
* American Indians: A Select Catalogue of National Archives Microfilm Publications. This 140-page guide provides the list and description of Indian records specifically microfilmed within the NARA, and how to order the microfilmed records. Contains the record group and specific records, a description of the records, the film, or roll number, and subject and inclusive dates.
* 1817-1835 Emigration Rolls Index. This aphabetical index allows one to connect their Old Settler roots back east, and provides a valuable link to connect Eastern and Western Cherokee. The actual rolls provide the only known list of these particular Cherokee prior to the 1851 Old Settler Census.
* Miller Roll Applications Index. Alphabetical index contains over 62,000 applicants.
* Early Indian Traders and Interpreters of South Carolina. Contains a list and short description of over 270 eighteenth century Indian traders and interpreters from South Carolina, that operated in current-day Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. Important because so many traders intermarried with Indians and spawned mixed-breed families. Also contains the list of Indian traders killed or made prisoners by Indians in the Ft. Pitt area in the French and Indian War; also contains a robust list of additional books and sources on Indian traders of the Five Civilized Tribes in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Also contains Bartrams Travels: Bartram Among the Creeks, detailing his late 18th century travels among the Creeks in the Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
* Index to the South Carolina Indian Journals. South Carolina established formal, regulated Indian trading as early as 1710. The state maintained journals of the trade and published a massive three volume set (out of print now, but available for review at the South Carolina Archives) the Journals of the Commissioners of the Indian Trade 1710-1718; Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1750-1754; and Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1754-1765. These journals contain fascinating accounts of Indian traders, commerce, militiamen, wars, treaties, relations, white settlers among Indians, and other important information to genealogists and historians. While the volumes are unavailable (except for review at the acrchives), the complete index here to these three journals provides an invaluable tool for research.
(CD Can be used by MAC as well as Windows users, requires 4 x CD ROM, and all files are in Adobe Reader (.pdf) format. Copyright © 2004 Rare Book Reprints. Price $58.95 plus S/H). NOTE - for a limited time, if you order BOTH Native American CD's (second CD is on next page) the total cost is only $85.00 plus $4.50 S/H = $89.50, A GREAT bargain)
Indians and Intruders, Vol I. Authored by nationally-known Oklahoma researcher Sharon Ashton, this volume contains: 1766 list of Chickasaw traders in the old Chickasaw country, 1831 list of white intruders in the old Creek country, 1860 slave schedules for the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, burials, baptisms, marriages, and deaths at Ft. Supply, Indian territory 1870-1894; Evidence of marriages in the Creek Nation 1876-1898, Intruders and non-citizens in the Creek Nation 1876-1897, Permits to non-citizens in the Cherokee Nation 1874-1894 (112 pages, softcover, indexed, $23.00, or $95.00 for all five volumes plus $3.50 S/H).
Indians and Intruders, Vol II. This volume contains the 1835 voters list of more than 2000 Cherokee living east of the Mississippi, Licenses and permits in the Creek Nation 1875-1895 and undated, Divorce records in the Choctaw Nation 1875-1905, Records of marriage in the Cherokee Nation 1869-1895 and undated Chickasaw Nation Court records 1874-1889 including Tishomingo County estates and guardianships; Cherokee Nation Divorce Records, 1874-1895 and undated; Marriage records in the Choctaw Nation, 1889-1898. (122 Pages, softcover, indexed, $23.00, or all five volumes for $95.00 plus $3.50 S/H).
Indians and Intruders, Vol III. This volume contains: Warrants issued to Indian Light Horsemen in the Creek Nation, Indian territory, 1869; Cherokee Civil War Claims Index - over 400 individual claims for personal property losses; Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Citizenship Records, 1896-1897; Our Red Brother, Methodist Newspaper, Indian Territory news, Jan 1890-May 1891; List of Choctaw Indians attending Mission School in Mississippi, 1823; Blue County, Choctaw Nation Indian Territory, Court Records, 1852-1858; Indian captives in the Southwest Kiowa Indian Agency, 1870-1872. (120 Pages, softcover, indexed, $22.00, or all five volumes for $85.00 plus $3.50 S/H).
Indians and Intruders, Vol IV. Contains list of valuations of Cherokee improvements 1835; Roll of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, 1866; Murder in the Choctaw Nation; Choctaw Deaths 1837-1854; Our Brother in Red, Indian Territory News, June 1891-August 1891; Index to Chickasaw Nation Record Book, 1837-1855; Abstracts from The Cherokee Advocate, 1878; Murders in the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations; and Register of Cherokee Claims, 1842.(120 Pages, softcover, indexed, $23.00, all five volumes $95.00) plus $3.50 S/H).
Indians and Intruders, Vol V. This volume contains the 1895 census of White Population of Osage Co (OK), a map of Osage Co. (1895), permits and passes issued by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency 1885, Creek Indians in TX, non-citizens in the Creek Nation 1877-1882, Choctaw Court of Claims (Claim # 211), List of Loyal Seminoles, Cherokees in the Creek Nation 1880, and abstracts from Our Brother in Red 1882-1883. (118 pages, sofcover, indexed, $23.00, all five volumes $95.00 plus $3.50 S/H). ______________________________________________________________________________
genealogical and historical study of South Carolina Indians, and the Indian Traders who married and traded with them. Unlike Virginia, South Carolina had no laws prohibiting white and Indian marriages. Additionally, South Carolina regulated the Indian trade from 1710 on. Therefore, massive records exist on White and Indian interaction, marriage, trade, and more. Theresa Hicks has spent a lifetime researching South Carolina, which in earlier centuries encompassed a massive area.
About the author: Theresa Hicks is the author of many South Carolina based books. She is a charter member of the South Carolina Genealogical Society and a cofounder of the Carolina Herald. A frequent lecturer, she has spoken before every South Carolina DAR chapter, taught a short term genealogy course at USC, and has spoken to genealogical societies across the nation. She was recently the South Carolina representative to the National Archives.
