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Indian Territory

[NOTE: some of the links to earlier years below are not specific to what is now known as Oklahoma, but are important links to resources about the people that would settle in the area now known as Oklahoma.]

• 1766 Chickasaw Traders

• 1817 Reservation Roll [Cherokee]

• 1817-1835 Emigration Roll [Cherokee]

• 1818 Chickasaw Census Roll (Partial) Chickasaw Old Town

• 1830 Choctaw Roll: "Armstrong roll" 3 v. 
  v.1 Nitakachi district, v.2 Mushulatubbe district, v.3 LeFlore district and Chickasaw Early Census Records includes the 1831 census of Choctaws prior to their removal to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma); 1837 Muster Roll of Chickasaws and 1839 Roll of Chickasaws  see The Memorabilia Corner

• 1830 Choctaw Census "Armstrong Roll" see The Memorabilia Corner

• 1831-1832 Register of Choctaw Emigrants to the West

• 1831-1856 Choctaw Emigration Records, Vol. 1/2  see The Memorabilia Corner

• 1835 Henderson Roll [Cherokee]

• 1837, 1839 & 1847 Chickasaw Muster/Census Rolls. PCGHS

• 1839 Chickasaw "Upshaw" Roll  see The Memorabilia Corner

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• 1848 Mullay Roll [Cherokee]
• 1851 Chapman Roll Eastern Cherokees
• 1851 Old Settler Roll [Cherokee]   (about)
• 1851 Siler Roll Census of Cherokee east of the Mississippi
• 1852 Drennen Roll  [Cherokee]
• 1855 Cooper Roll   [Choctaw]
• 1855 Census of Choctaw Nation
• 1855 Census Apukshunnubbee District, Boktucklo Co. Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1855 Chickasaw District Roll of 1856 (?)  see The Memorabilia Corner
• 1857-1860 Chickasaw Rolls: Annuity Rolls  see The Memorabilia Corner

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• 1860 US Federal Census Arkansas
  Indian Territory Census INDEX and another INDEX 
  partial index entries are grouped into districts and are in alphabetical order
  [NOTE: Census of inhabitants of Indian Lands west of Arkansas. Indians are NOT listed on this census, but lists free and slave inhabitants in the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. The slave schedules provide only the name of the slave's owner, not the names of the slaves.] [OHS] ORR APC
  [NOTE: A census enumerator from AR came into Indian Territory and listed some (not all) of the non-Indians who were living here at that time, the original can be found at the end of the 1860 Yell County AR census microfilm]
• 1860 Census of Slave owners of Red River Co., Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1861 Census of Blue Co. Warriors, Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1861 Census of Blue Co. Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1868 Census of Blue Co. Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1869 Swetland Roll  [Cherokee]

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• 1874 Census of Blue Co. Choctaw Nation BCHA
• 1875 - 1895 Intruders and Non-Citizens in the Creek Nation SSA
• 1876 - 1897 Selected Index of Intruders and Non-Citizens in the Creek Nation SSA
• 1878 Chickasaw Annuity Roll see The Memorabilia Corner

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• 1880 Cherokee Nation Census
  Illinois District, Flint, Cooweescoowee, Canadian, Saline, Tahlequah, Goingsnake, Sequoyah, Delaware
• 1880 and 1890 census Canadian District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
  transcribed by Sharron Standifer Ashton. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Genealogical
  Society, 1978. Oklahoma Genealogical Society special publication, no. 5 - OGS
• 1882 [Choctaw Nation] Skulleyville County Intruders - (a census of non-citizens)
  [Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory now LeFlore Co. OK] GRS
• 1883 Hester Roll  [Cherokee]
• 1885 Choctaw Nation, IT Census
  includes Atoka, Blue, Boktolo, Cedar, Eagle, Gaines, Jacks Fork, Kiamitia, San Bois, Skullyville, Sugar Loaf, Tobucksy, Towson, Wade Counties
• 1885 Choctaw Nation - Atoka County Census [OHS]
• 1885 Choctaw Nation - Blue County, Pushmataha District Census BCHA
• 1880 and 1890 census Canadian District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
  Oklahoma Genealogical Society special publication, no. 5 - OGS
• 1889 McKennon Roll [Choctaw]
• 1889-1914 Index to Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory 

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• 1900 US Federal Census Indian Territory - Microfilm [OHS] [Location, Roll# and ED# }
• 1900 US Federal Census Indian Territory Soundex - Microfilm [OHS]
• 1900 Listing of tribes/towns/townships
• 1900 Chickasaw Nation Census (McClain Co. IT) [OHS]
• 1900 Chickasaw Nation Census (Stephens Co. Area) [OHS]
• 1900 Chickasaw Nation Census (printed) The Memorabilia Corner
  Chickasaw Nation, I.T, Garvin County
  Chickasaw Nation, I.T, McClain County
  Chickasaw Nation, I.T, Stephens County
  Chickasaw Nation, I.T, Grady County
  Chickasaw Nation, I.T. now Murray County
• 1900 Craig County, Welch, Oklahoma
• 1900 Creek Muscogee Nation, I.T. pub by Konawa Genealogical Society
• 1900 Garvin County - Chickasaw Nation
• 1900 Grady County - Chickasaw Nation
• 1900 Latimer and Pittsburg Counties (Choctaw Nation, IT) [OHS]
• 1900 LeFlore County (Choctaw Nation, IT) Census [OHS] PVG
• 1900 Kickapoo  Supervisor's District No. 219; 
            Enumeration District No.: 122  Institution: Mexican Kickapoo Mission
• 1900 McClain County - Chickasaw Nation
• 1900 Pontotoc County - Chickasaw Nation PoCGHS
• 1900 Stephens County - Chickasaw Nation
• 1900 Choctaw Nation - Head Of Household Index PCGHS
  Vol. 1 - Film T623-1850. Includes Spiro, Cameron, Oak Lodge, Whitefield, Canadian, Brooken, Indianola, and Newberg Townships 
  Vol. 2 - Film T 623-1851. Includes Allen, Boswell, Antlers, Dwight, Featherston, Heavener, Howe, McAlester, McCurtain, Newberg, Poteau, Red Oak, South McAlester, Talihina, Thomasville, Wilburton, and Wister Townships
  Vol. 3 - Film T623-1852. Includes Savanna, Hartshorne, Coalgate, Durant, Legal, Kiowa, Tuskahoma, Fanshawe, Caddo, Atoka, Wilson, Sterrett, Talihina, Antlers, Eagletown, Gilmore, Good Water, and Nelson Townships
  Vol. 4 - Film T623-1853. Includes Lehigh, Oak Hill, Durant, Kiamita, Caddo, Atoka Townships, and parts of McCurtain County
• 1902 Chickasaw Census Cards with links to images
• 1904 Tulsa Co. Census of Broken Arrow, OK  BAGS
• 1905 Census of the Comanche Indian Tribe
  Kiowa Indian Agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, by Faye Washburn SOGS
• 1908 Churchill Roll [Cherokee]
• 1909 Guion Miller Roll [Cherokee]
• 1889-1914 Index to Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory 
• 1924 Baker Roll  [Cherokee]
• 1929 Restricted Census