Two Callisons that I can find documented with American Indian connections.
Take care. Marilyn
Dawes Commission Index 1898-1914
Control Number: NRFF-75-53A-3100
Title: Enrollment for Edward B Callison
Creating Organization: Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
Scope and Content: Tribe: Cherokee
Type: Parent
Sex: Male
Title: Enrollment for Emily M Callison
Type: Parent
Sex: Female
Title: Enrollment for Walter C Callison
Type: Minor
Age: 2
Sex: Male
Roll: 4085
Degree Indian Blood: 1/16
The index includes the names of all persons applying for compensation
arising from the judgment of the United States Court of Claims on May 28, 1906, for
the Eastern Cherokee tribe. While numerous individuals applied, not all the
claims were allowed. The information included on the index is the application
number, the name of the applicant, and the State or Territory in which the
individual resided at the time the application was filed. To order copies of
these applications, you must General Note submit a completed NATF Form 83
which includes the individual's name and application number. A separate form must
be completed for each file you wish copied. To obtain an NATF Forms 83 write
the National Archives, NWCTB, Old Military and Civil Records (Form 83),
Washington, D.C. 20408
Index of Guion Miller Roll
Total Records: 2 Number Surname Given Middle State
Comments Page
27582 Callison Emily H. I.T. 43
37064 Callison Sarah Almidia I.T. 43
In the 1900 Cherokee Nation Census we find
Edward B. Callison born October 1873 he and parents born Missouri, he and
parents were white, fixed dwelling rather than movable
Emma (probably Emily above), Wife, born Feb. 1872, she and parents born
Georgia, she and father were Cherokee, mother was white, 1/8 Indiana Blood. not
taxed, not living in Polygamy
Bertha A. daughter born June 1899 Indian Territory, Cherokee
Nettie Mitchell, servant, age 10. born April 1891 she and parents born
Arkansas, she and parents white
1910 census Martin Twp., Muskogee County, Oklahoma census
Edward B. Callison, white, all others Indiana, first marriage, married 10
years, age 36, he and parents born Missouri
Missouri, wife, age 37, first marriage, mother of 7 children, 3 living, she
and father born GA, mother born TN
Bertha, daughter, age 11, Oklahoma
Walter C., son, age 6, Oklahoma
Donnie D., daughter, age 3, Oklahoma
1910 census Mayes County, Center Twp. Oklahoma
Cloud Callison, white, age 26, born AR, parents born MO
Ollie, wife, age 23, Indian, married 4 years, mother of 2 children, 2 living
OK, IN, OK
Ora, Son, age 2, OK
Oon, son, age 1, OK
Anyone claim descendancy from these people. I think there is specific DNA
tests to verify Indian ancestry.
Cherokee Indian Tribe
Cherokee. A powerful detached tribe of the _Iroquoian_
(
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/iroquioi/iroquoianfamilyhist...) family,
formerly
holding the whole mountain region of the south Alleghenies, in southwest
Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east
Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River.
The tribal name is a corruption of Tsálăgĭ or Tsárăgĭ, the name by which
they commonly called themselves, and which may be derived from the Choctaw
chiluk-ki 'cave people', in allusion to the numerous caves in their mountain
country. They sometimes also call themselves Ani'-Yûñ'-wiyd', 'real
people,' or
Anĭ'-Kitu'hwagĭ, 'people of Kituhwa’, one of their most important ancient
settlements. Their northern kinsmen, the Iroquois, called them Oyata’ge'ronoñ',
'inhabitants of the cave country' (Hewitt), and the Delawares and connected
tribes called them Kittuwa, from the settlement already noted. They seem to
be identical with the Rickohockans, who invaded central Virginia in 1658, and
with the ancient Talligewi, of Delaware tradition, who were represented to
have been driven southward from the upper Ohio River region by the combined
forces of the Iroquois and Delawares.
The language has three principal dialects:
(1) Elatĭ, or Lower, spoken on the heads of Savannah River, in South
Carolina and Georgia;
(2) Middle, spoken chiefly on the waters of Tuckasegee River, in western
North Carolina, and now the prevailing dialect on the East Cherokee reservation;
(3) A'tŭli, Mountain or Upper, spoken throughout most of upper Georgia, east
Tennessee, and extreme western North Carolina. The lower dialect was the
only one which had the r sound, and is now extinct. The upper dialect is that
which has been exclusively used in the native literature of the tribe.
Traditional, linguistic, and archeological evidence shows that the Cherokee
originated in the north, but they were found in possession of the south
Allegheny region when first encountered by De Soto in 1540. Their relations with
the Carolina colonies began 150 years later. In 1736 the Jesuit (?) Priber
started the first mission among them, and attempted to organize their government
on a civilized basis. In 1759, under the leadership of A'ganstâ'ta
(Oconostota), they began war with the English of Carolina. In the Revolution they
took sides against the Americans, and continued the struggle almost without
interval until 1794. During this period parties of the Cherokee pushed down
Tennessee River and formed new settlements at Chickamauga and other points about
the Tennessee-Alabama line. Shortly after 1800, missionary and educational
work was established among theme, and in 1820 they adopted a regular form of
government modeled on that of the United States. In the meantime large numbers
of the more conservative Cherokee, wearied by the encroachments of the whites,
had crossed the Mississippi and made new homes in the wilderness in what is
now Arkansas. A year or two later Sequoya (q. v.), a mixed-blood, invented
the alphabet, which at once raised them to the rank of a literary people.
At the height of their prosperity gold was discovered near the present
Dahlonega, Ga., within the limits of the Cherokee Nation, and at once a powerful
agitation was begun for the removal of the Indians. After years of hopeless
struggle under the leadership of their great chief, John Ross, they were
compelled to submit to the inevitable, and by the treaty of New Echota, Dec. 29,
1835, the Cherokee sold their entire remaining territory and agreed to remove
beyond the Mississippi to a country there to be set apart for them-the present
(1905) Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. The removal was accomplished in
the winter of 1838-39, after considerable hardship and the loss of nearly
one-fourth of their number, the unwilling Indians being driven out by military
force and making the long journey on foot. On reaching their destination they
reorganized their national government, with their capital at Tahlequah,
admitting to equal privileges the earlier emigrants, known as "old settlers." A
part of the Arkansas Cherokee had previously gone down into Texas, where they
had obtained a grant of land in the east part of the state from the Mexican
government. The later Texan revolutionists refused to recognize their rights,
and in spite of the efforts of Gen. Sam Houston, who defended the Indian
claim, a conflict was precipitated, resulting, in 1839, in the killing of the
Cherokee chief, Bowl (q. v.), with a large number of his men, by the Texan
troops, and the expulsion of the Cherokee from Texas.
When the main body of the tribe was removed to the west, several hundred
fugitives escaped to the mountains, where hey lived as refugees for a time,
until, in 1842, through the efforts of Win. H. Thomas, an influential trader,
they received permission to remain on lands set apart for their use in western
North Carolina.
They constitute the present eastern band of Cherokee, residing chiefly on
the Qualla reservation in Swain and Jackson counties, with several outlying
settlements.
The Cherokee in the Cherokee Nation were for years divided into two hostile
factions, those who had favored and those who had opposed the treaty of
removal. Hardly had these differences they been adjusted when the civil war burst
upon them. Being slave owners and surrounded by southern influences, a large
part of each of the Five Civilized Tribes of the territory enlisted in the
service of the Confederacy, while others adhered to the National Government.
The territory of the Cherokee was overrun in turn by both armies, and the
close of the war found them prostrated. By treaty in 1866 they were readmitted to
the protection of the United States, but obliged to liberate their Negro
slaves and admit them to equal citizenship. In 1867 and 1870 the Delawares and
Shawnee, respectively, numbering together about 1,750, were admitted from
Kansas and incorporated with the Nation. In 1889 Cherokee Commission (see
Commission) was created for the purpose of abolishing the tribal governments and
opening the territories to white settlement, with the result that after 15 years
of negotiation an agreement was made by which the government of the Cherokee
Nation came to a final end Mar. 3, 1906: the Indian lands were divided, and
the Cherokee Indians, native adopted, became citizens of the United States.
The Cherokee have 7 clans, viz:
Ani'-wa'`ya (Wolf)
Ani'-Kawĭ' (Deer)
Ani'-Tsi'skwa (Bird)
Ani'-wi'dĭ (Paint)
Ani'-Sah'a'ni
Ani'-Ga'tagewĭ
Ani'-Gi-lâ'hĭ
The names of the last 3 cannot be translated with certainty. There is
evidence that there were anciently 14, which by extinction or absorption have been
reduced to their present number. The Wolf clan is the largest and most
important. The "seven clans" are frequently mentioned in the ritual prayers and
even in the printed laws of the tribe. They seem to have had a connection with
the "seven mother towns" of the Cherokee, described by Cuming in 1730 as
having each a chief, whose office was hereditary in the female line.
The Cherokee are probably about as numerous now as at any period in their
history. With the exception of an estimate in 1730, which placed them at about
20,000, most of those up to a recent period gave them 12,000 or 14,000, and
in 1758 they were computed at only 7,500. The majority of the earlier
estimates are probably too low, as the Cherokee occupied so extensive a territory
that only a part of them came in contact with the whites. In 1708 Gov.
Johnson estimated them at 60 villages and "at least 500 men" (Rivers, So. Car.,
238, 1856). In 1715 they were officially reported to number 11,210 (Upper,
2,760; diddle, 6,350; Lower, 2,100), including 4,000 warriors, and living in 60
villages (Upper, 19; Middle, 30; Lower, 11). In 1720 were estimated to have
been reduced to about 10,000, and again in the same year reported at about
11,500, including about 3,800 warriors (Gov. Johnson's Rep. in Rivers, op. cit.,
93, 94, 103, 1874). In 1729 they were estimated at 20,000, with at least 6,000
warriors and 64 towns and villages (Stevens, Hist. Ga., r, 48, 1847).
They are said to have lost 1,000 warriors in 1739 from smallpox and rum, and
they suffered a steady decrease during their wars with the whites, extending
from 1760 until after the close of the Revolution. Those in their original
homes had again increased to 16,542 at the time of their forced removal to the
west in 1838, but lost nearly one-fourth on the journey, 311 perishing in a
steamboat accident on the Mississippi. Those already in the west, before the
removal, were estimated at about 6,000. The civil war in 1861-65 again
checked their progress, but they recovered from its effects in a remarkably short
time, and in 1885 numbered about 19,000, of whom about 17,000 were in Indian
Territory, together with about 6,000 adopted whites, Negroes, Delawares, and
Shawnee, while the remaining 2,000 were still in their ancient homes in the
east.
Of this eastern band, 1,376 were on Qualla reservation, in Swain and.
Jackson Counties, N. C.; about 300 are on Cheowah River, in Graham County, N. C.,
while the remainder, all of mixed blood, are scattered over east Tennessee,
north Georgia, and Alabama. The eastern band lost about 300 by smallpox at the
close of the civil war. In 1902 there were officially reported 28,016 persons
of Cherokee blood, including all degrees of admixture, in the Cherokee
Nation in the Territory, but this includes several thousand individuals formerly
repudiated by the tribal courts.
There were also living in the nation about 3,000 adopted Negro freedmen,
more than 2,000 adopted whites, and about 1700 adopted Delaware, Shawnee, and
other Indians. The tribe has a larger proportion of white admixture than any
other of the Five Civilized Tribes.
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