<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>These applications&nbsp;represent one component of the larger body of applications for Enrollment of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes 1898-1914 (Dawes Commission). The&nbsp;term newborn referred to each Seminole individual living within a qualified&nbsp;household who was four years of age or less and not an orphan--up to the time&nbsp;that the President awarded the land allotments. Under this definition each&nbsp;Seminole newborn was to receive 40 acres of Indian Territory. The applications&nbsp;found in National Archive Film M-1301 Rolls 401-402 and transcribed in this series contain more information and&nbsp;establish family relationships not found on the census cards in National&nbsp;Archive film M-1186 the basis for the seminal title&nbsp;<em>Final Rolls of Citizens&nbsp;and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory [and] Index to the&nbsp;Final Rolls.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);> &nbsp;</span><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>According to language of the Dawes Commission found on the&nbsp;National Archives microfilm On May 1 1905 as previously announced an&nbsp;office was opened for the enrollment of children at Wewoka Indian Territory&nbsp;the tribal&nbsp;capital. The office was maintained until midnight June 2 and&nbsp;applications for the enrollment of 414 children received. Of this number 270&nbsp;were children by blood of the Seminole Nation and 144 were children of Seminole&nbsp;freedmen. Two hundred applications of the former class have been approved by&nbsp;the Commission and the names of the applicants included upon a schedule&nbsp;transmitted for department approval on June 28. The remaining applications will&nbsp;be passed upon as rapidly as possible . . . . Unlike the case of the Creek and&nbsp;Cherokee who resisted various provisions of the Dawes Allotment Act because it&nbsp;purported to dissolve the Five Civilized Tribes as social units Seminole&nbsp;enrollment was a&nbsp;relatively simple matter following the tribe's willingness to&nbsp;work with the&nbsp;Dawes Commission as early as 1898.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);> </span><strong style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>The transcriptions include all correspondence&nbsp;associated with successful Seminole claimants. The applications include the names of parents doctors lawyers&nbsp;midwives and other Seminole relatives whose identities were divulged as part&nbsp;of&nbsp;the application process.&nbsp;In all researchers will find thousands of Seminole&nbsp;connections&nbsp;in the name indexes to the books.</strong></p><p><br></p>
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