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Here is a brief listing of reliable genealogy resources:

From the National Archives Microfilm Lending Program & Field Branches:
--Pyramid Lake - Paiute Indians:
410 1931-32

--Quapaw - Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians:
411 1885-92
412 1893-1900

--Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians:
413 1922-29
414 1930-32
415 1933-35

--Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians
416 1936-39
487 1930-40

--Seneca - Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians:
488 1901-7
489 1910-21

LDS Family History Library Books & Microfilms:
--Census 1885-1892 - microfilm FHL581405

--Census 1893-1910 - microfilm FHL5814056

--United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs. A Census Register of All the Men, Women and Children Coming Within the Sixth Article of the Treaty Made With the Ottawa and Chippewa Nations of Indiana on the 28th of March 1836. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1836. (FHL Book Q/970.1 A1/no.4 or microfilm 982330, item 4.)

--Blackbird, Andrew J. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. Ypsilanti, Mich.: n.pub., 1887. (FHL# 970.1/B562h or microfilm 924102, item 9, or 1011853.)

--Most National Archives microfilms are available, using the FHL numbering system. See the LDS FHL Catalog for specifics.

AGLL Books & Microfilms:
http://www.heritagequest.com/

--T623-1854 1900 Indian Territory Census: Creek (part: ED 61-end), Peoria, Ourpaw, Seneca, Wyandotte, Seminole, Modoc, Ottawa, and Shawnee Nations

--M595-410 Pyramid Lake (Paiute Indians), 1931-32; Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians),

--M595-411 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians), 1885-92

--M595-412 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians), 1893-1900

--M595-413 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians, 1922-29

--M595-414 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians, 1930-32

--M595-415 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians, 1933-35

--M595-416 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians), 1936-39

--T623-1854 1900 Census: Creek (part: ED 61-end), Peoria, Ourpaw, Seneca, Wyandotte, Seminole, Modoc, Ottawa, and Shawnee Nations

--Lantz, Raymond C. Ottawas and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1855 -1868:Including some Swan Creek and Black River of Sac and Fox Agency for the years 1857, 1858, and 1865.

--Lantz, Raymond C. Potawatomi Indians of Michigan 1834-1904 Including some Ottawas and Chippewas 1843-1866 and Potawatomi of Indian 1869-1885.

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--Kappler,Indian Treaties: Ottawa

--Lantz, Raymond C. Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan 1855-1868 (This is currently out of print try interlibrary loan through local public library.)

--Lantz, Raymond C. Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan 1870-1909.

--JAIFR (Journal of Indian Family Research) issues for the Ottawa:
Vol 1 no3
Vol 1 no 3 Ottawa Tribal Roll
Vol X1 No 3 Resolution of Ottawa leaders 1856


List Of Miscellaneous resources:

--Eakle and Cerny, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, p.538
"Other removal records include five volumes of miscellaneous muster rolls for 1832-36 that record removals for Apalachicola and Seminole, Kickapoo, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Quapaw, and Wyandot."


--Wright, Muriel H. A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Includes a list of early articles relating to Indians in Chronicles of Oklahoma (quarterly published by Oklahoma Historical Society, 1921- .); excellent maps of Indian and Oklahoma Territories showing lands occupied by Commanche, Kiowa, Apache, Quapaw, Peoria, Ottawa, Shawnee, Modoc, Wyandot, Seneca, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Sac and Fox, Iowa, Ponca, Otto, Missouri, Kaw, Pawnee.

--Cerny and Elliott, The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library, Chapter 9 states:
"Before the 1630s when French explorers, traders, and missionaries settled in the Michigan area, all lands were held by the Ottawa, Chippewa, and smaller Indian tribes. The Indian Nations continued to dominate the region until 1763 when the British took possession. Indian conflicts continued intermittently until the close of the War of 1812."

--Cerny and Elliott, The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library, Chapter 10
"Bureau of Indian Affairs records are available for many of the Oklahoma Indian Agencies for varying dates. These valuable records include census, vital statistics, family registers, annuity rolls, land and property records. Records included are for the Kiowa, Osage, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, Wichita, Caddo, Cherokee, Shawnee, Kaw, Quapaw, Seneca, Miami, Seneca-Cayuga, Delaware, Wyandotte, Ottawa, Modoc, Nez Perce, Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankashaw, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Iowa, Kickapoo, Pottawatomi, Otoe-Missouri, Pawnee, Ponca, Tonkawa, Sac, and Fox. These are cataloged in the FHLC under Oklahoma/Native Races/[Agency]."

--James C. Neagles, The Library of Congress
"These collections include correspondence from Presbyterian missionaries to the Indians (1833-93); originals of these 14,000 letters are at the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are arranged by correspondent and Indian tribe, including Apache, Assinboin, Blackfoot, Chickasaw, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek, Dakota, Fox, Kickapoo, Missouri, Mohawk, Muskogee, Navajo, Nez Perce, Omaha, Otoe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Pueblo, Sac, Santee, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Shoshone, Sioux, Teton, Wea, Winnebago, Uintah, Umatilla, and Zuni."

--Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry's Red Book, Illinois
"Included in the Illinois State Archives are the following: in Record Group 103.62, 'Executive Section, Executive File,' papers ca. 1824-32 concerning native Americans in Illinois (copies of treaties and speeches made by native Americans and government representatives at peace conferences, and depositions of Illinois citizens taken by state agents dealing with Indian depredations); and in Record Group 100, 'Records of the Illinois Territory,' there is material pertaining to speeches of, trade with, and treaties with Indians, and mention of the Cherokee, Delaware, Fox, Kickapoo, Osage, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, and Shawnee tribes."

--Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry's Red Book, Michigan
"The first French explorers arrived in the area between 1618 and 1622 and found approximately 15,000 Native Americans. Principally, the nations of the Chippewa or Ojibway, Potawatomi, Miami, Ottawa, and Huron or Wyandot had held claim to the land for generations."

--Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry's Red Book, Michigan
"The Burton Historical Collection has the 1908 census of the Chippewa Indians of Michigan, known as the Durant Roll. It names "all persons and their descendants who were on the roll of the Ottawa and Chippewa Tribe in 1870 and living on March 4, 1907." The census lists each name, relationship to the head of the family, age, sex, band, and place of residence.

--Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry's Red Book, Ohio
"Twelve to fifteen thousand native inhabitants were said to have been living in Ohio country when the first European settlers arrived. The Miami lived in the western part of Ohio, and the Wyandotte were in the northwest. The Huron, the Ottawa, and the Seneca were also in the northwest. The Shawnee tribe was located in the lower Scioto Valley, the Delaware in the Muskingum Valley, the Tuscarora in the northeastern section of that valley, and the Mingo occupied the east."

--Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., Ancestry's Red Book, Wisconsin Chapter:
"When Jean Nicolet landed at the Red Banks of Lake Michigan in 1634, he would have been met by the Winnebago tribe which lived in large numbers in the Green Bay region. The Native Americans in the seventeenth century included the Sioux, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Mascouten, Miami, Kickapoo, Huron, and Ottawa. In the early nineteenth century, the removal and containment of the natives began its deceptive chronicle. In some cases, land vacated by one tribe was occupied by another, resulting in two treaties on one parcel of land, sometimes requiring the repurchase of that same land. "

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