<h4 class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This five-volume undertaking is based on the Chickasaw enrollment&nbsp;cards, sometimes called "census cards," prepared by the Commission to the Five&nbsp;Civilized Tribes (the Dawes Commission) between 1898 and 1914. The Commission's&nbsp;purpose was to rule on citizenship applications submitted by members of the&nbsp;Five&nbsp;Civilized Tribes covering some 250,000 persons. The Commission ultimately&nbsp;enrolled 101,000 people according to the following categories, indicating its&nbsp;findings on the enrollment cards: Citizens by Blood, Citizens by Marriage, New&nbsp;Born Citizens by Blood, Minor Citizens by Blood, Freedmen (former black slaves&nbsp;of Indians), New Born Freedmen, and Minor Freedmen.&nbsp;The genealogical contents of the cards has been transcribed from National Archives Microfilm Series&nbsp;M-1186: Roll 67, pp. 1-662; and Roll 68, pp. 663-1424.</strong></h4><h4><br></h4><h4><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This transcription of the Chickasaw&nbsp;Enrollment cards provides the following information on each individual whose&nbsp;name appeared in a given application: county of residence, post office (local&nbsp;address), name, relationship to first person named in application, age, sex,&nbsp;blood tribal enrollment (year, town, page), and similar identifying information&nbsp;for the parents of the first person named.</strong></h4><h4><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></h4><h4><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In addition to the foregoing&nbsp;standard&nbsp;information, which has been arranged in a tabular format,&nbsp;researchers will&nbsp;discover valuable data in the "Notes" section at the&nbsp;conclusion of each card's&nbsp;contents. Besides the Dawes Roll No., the Notes&nbsp;contain other name listings,&nbsp;references to different cards, birth dates, death&nbsp;dates, listings on various&nbsp;payrolls with years, mention of a spouse in the&nbsp;"doubtful" category or from&nbsp;another tribe, and more. In all, Volume I of&nbsp;</strong><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Chickasaw by Blood</em><strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&nbsp;names&nbsp;3,500 persons seeking citizenship status at&nbsp;this crucial time in Native American&nbsp;history.</strong></h4>