<h4 class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Seminole Freedmen&nbsp;as they were called were the&nbsp;only African Americans living among the Five&nbsp;Civilized Tribes who were entitled to tribal allotments. Unlike the other Five&nbsp;Civilized Tribes--which held African&nbsp;Americans as slaves--the Seminole&nbsp;incorporated blacks into their tribe. Since&nbsp;the Curtis Act required the Dawes&nbsp;Commission to follow tribal customs and&nbsp;usages in processing applications for&nbsp;allotment it had to consider any&nbsp;children of a mixed marriage freedmen rather&nbsp;than citizens by blood . . .; however this did not prevent the newborn&nbsp;freedmen from sharing equally with&nbsp;full-bloods in the division of Seminole&nbsp;lands. Under this definition each&nbsp;Seminole newborn freedman was to receive&nbsp;forty acres of Indian Territory.&nbsp;</strong></h4><h4 class=ql-align-center><br></h4><h4 class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>&nbsp;</strong><em style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Applications for&nbsp;Enrollment&nbsp;of Seminole Newborn Freedmen Act of 1905</em><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>&nbsp;have been transcribed from National Archive&nbsp;film&nbsp;M-1301 Roll 402. The applications found in M-1301 and transcribed in this&nbsp;series contain more information and establish family relationships not found on&nbsp;the census cards in National Archive film M-1186 the basis for the seminal&nbsp;title&nbsp;</strong><em style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory [and] Index to the Final Rolls.&nbsp;These </em><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>transcriptions&nbsp;include all correspondence associated with successful Seminole claimants.&nbsp;&nbsp;Besides the names of all parents and newborns the applications include the&nbsp;names of doctors lawyers midwives and other Seminole relatives whose&nbsp;identities were divulged as part of the application process and who attended&nbsp;to the Seminole before and during this time in history.</strong></h4><p><br></p>
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