In 1893, the Dawes Commission was established to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - to provide for the allotment of land to tribal members. The Dawes Commission was empowered to prepare citizenship rolls for each tribe to determine the rights of applicants for the allotments. Because of the rigorous application procedures involving proof of blood and tribal affiliation, the "Final Rolls" have become the official identification of degrees of Indian blood amoung the Five Civilized Tribes and have become the most important record sources in all of Native American genealogy. The Final Rolls contain the names of 101,000 individuals.
The Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia were the historical home of the Cherokees. With many Scots-Irish settling in the Carolinas, there was quite a lot of inter-marriages with the Indians, especially with the Cherokees as they were the most accommodating to changing to the settlers dress, language, culture and religion. Genealogy research in the Carolinas, often leads the researcher to needing to trace ancestors back into the Five Civilized Tribes. Classifications within each tribe were members: by blood, by marriage, by freedmen (former black slaves admitted to tribal citizenship).
Presented here are the names of individuals with surnames in the Caruthers family, or in one of the other related families reviewed on this website.
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