Do you know which Indian Nation is involved? My Grandfather, Austin Julian Coffey, worked as a white day laborer for Chickasaw citizens when he was a teen ager. Work permits were required. Tenant farmers signed on to farm for Chickasaw citizens also. Many mixed blood citizens and full blood youth did work for citizens who had the permission of the national council to farm certain acreages for example. One Native American citizen in the Chickasaw Nation had 53 tenant farmers and no telling how many day laborers. Check with the OK Historical Society, for they have microfilm showing copies of work permits and contracts to build and operate hotels on Chickasaw lands, etc. I know that the same thing is true of each of the "5 civilized tribes", so have fun and dig away.-----I never did find my grandfather's work permit, but I learned much about the times and history of my native state. The Bullocks in my background go back before 1700 to Bermuda to Charleston and one Mary Margaret Bullock who married Rene de St Julien, a French Huguenot soldier who fled to Holland to England to Bermuda and then to Charleston. It was in Bermuda he married Mary Margaret daughter of Marie and Stephen Bullock. Marie was Spanish and Stephen a Scottish or English sea captain whose business took him between Bermuda and Charleston. ----ila41430@aol.com