Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory

The National Archives now has online an 'index to the names of individuals entitled to enrollment on the rolls of the various tribes comprising the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).' Names are arranged by tribe and alphabetically by surname in the enrollment categories. Entries provide the enrollee name and final roll number. Copies are available from the National Archives at Fort Worth, 1400 John Burgess Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76140. The cost is $15 per census card.

Geronimo Descendants

From Dick Eastman's genealogy blog comes this interesting article . . .


"According to the BBC, US officials have moved to block a legal bid by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo to have his remains reburied. Geronimo's relatives say some body parts were stolen almost 100 years ago by members of a society linked to Yale University to keep in their clubhouse.

The relatives want to rebury the warrior, who died in 1909, near his birthplace in New Mexico. But the justice department has asked a federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit.
The society, known as Skull and Bones, is alleged to have stolen some of Geronimo's remains from a burial plot in Oklahoma in 1918.

Government lawyers want to remove the U.S. goverment as a defendant in the case, saying that the government was not involved in the alleged theft of bones. The same lawyers have no objection to the lawsuit's claims against the other defendants: Yale University and the Order of the Skull and Bones."