>From what I have been taught in Genealogy Classes and seminars, the enumerators had to account for all persons in every household. If the head of household was anything, other than white, he would have been shown as a Mulatto. If the wife of the head of household was an indian she was normally shown as white. Many indian women passed for white because they worked out in the fields alongside the men and the census was taken in the spring and summer months. The only separate 1850 and 1860 census was the Slave Schedule. There wasn't one for indians because by 1850 most of the southern indians, Cherokees in particular, had been moved to Indian Territory. Since the "Indian problem" had been moved to Indian Territory the government held that there were no Indians, offically, anywhere else in the sourthen part of the US. The Free Blacks and Melungeons where designated as a "Free man of Color" or FC on census. Hope this helps. Charlotte in Eastern Oklahoma