Hello All, The Dawes Rolls of 1887 are named after Congressman Henry Dawes of Missouri who was the author of the legislation that supposedly was to protect Native American rights during the Oklahoma Land Rush. By registering, Native Americans were told they would be allotted 160 acres of land per family prior to the land rush and thus be compensated for over 100 years of genocide against them by the U.S.government. Native Americans viewed this with suspicion due to the many clumsy relocation efforts in the past. Those who refused to submit feared they would be imprisoned or otherwise punished. To get on the Rolls, Natives had to anglicize their names. Rolling Thunder became Ron Thomas and so on. The worst thing was that Native fears were justified in that countless many of the Indian agents sent to register the Native Americans slipped names of friends and relatives into the rolls and stole millions of acres of land. The abuses and corruption were revealed in the Miriam Report of 1928. This 800 page report documented the massive fraud and misappropriation by the very agents sent by the government to administer the Dawes Act. It was found that in one state alone (the state is not named) that Indian held land which had totaled 138 million acres at the time of the Dawes Act was signed into law had been reduced to 47 million acres by 1934 when the act was repudiated. So once again, a program for the supposed benefit of Native Americans was in reality a legislated land grab by the United States. Genealogically, the Dawes Rolls are still one of the official records (The Guion-Miller Rolls the other) to use in documenting ones Native ancestry link. Hope this is helpful and not too terribly long-winded. James M. Grant JRedmondsr@aol.com wrote: > Hi Queen List > Spent part of this past week digging for Queens in North Ga. and N. C. Monday > the wife and I played like ducks in the rain. We checked out three Cool > Springs Church cemeteries. One was in Tate, GA, one near Price, GA, and one > between Clarkesville and Helen Ga. > There were no Queens buried at the cemetery in Tate. We were lucky enough to > talk to the church secretary. They had a ledger of the cemetery there. I > found one Hogan there which is my material grandmother's surname. needless to > said I will surly check this out. We talked to a gentleman in a restaurant > where we had stopped about Queens. Bingo, he knew of a Queen who lived near > there in Tate. The gentle man was nice enough to give my phone number to Mr. > Queen, and he called the next day. We didn't get back home until Thursday. I > returned his called and he was eager to discuss the Queens. He had been > working on his wife's family and is just getting started on the Queens. It is > his understanding that there is or was there sets of Queen's in Fannin Co. > According to him they do not/did not claim kin to each other. (I've hear that > before) He mention that he had heard of a Grayson Queen but couldn't give me > any detail about him. It is Grayson, Granson, or Grandson I'm still lost on > this one. > Question; Are any of you familiar with the Daws or Dawson ledgers. If so > would one of you familiarize me with it. > > Next we visited Clarkesville/Habersham County Library. Found a Ransom Queen > 1921-1944 was in WW2 and a Rhoda Queen 1886-1972. > > Still haven't found the Cool Springs Church where Joseph H. is supposed to be > buried. Although there are a lot of unmarked graves in the cemeteries we > visited. > > > > Jimmy O. Redmond, Sr.