This series transcribes the Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn, National Archive film M-1301 (Act of 1905), as described in the National Archives publication American Indians. These applications represent one component of the larger body of applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (Dawes Commission). Under the terms of the Dawes Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, which established the Commission...

An introduction to the locale, history, way of life, and culture of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians.

From after the Civil War to the turn of the century Indian Territory was a wild, and much of the time, lawless place. Yet, settlers flocked there by the thousands for the highly prized land. However, to make a home there folks there folks had to contend with the criminal element, which was an almost daily factor of life in the Indian Nations. This is a story of how a family, and one young boy in particular, coped with life in Creek country.