Blackwolf,
The Dawes went by direct descendants didn't it? I am having a hard time following you on these people having to take their entire families with them.
Isn't it said that some people might have had seen where they had great aunts or uncles on the rolls, but not their direct ancestor, therefore that made them not enrollable?
Enrollment requirement for Citiesnshp in the Cherokee Nation is based on being of lineal descent of an Indian on the Dawes Roll. That’s true. What I was getting at was that if a Cherokee man or women left the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation and weren’t enrolled by Dawes, then if their parents or grandparents stayed behind in the Tribal boundaries, then even if they weren’t enrolled, their descendents would be eligible for enrollment because most likely their parents or grandparent that stayed behind in the CN were enrolled. As to the second part, yes that’s true. But let’s say you had a great aunt that was enrolled, but her brother who was your direct lineal ancestor wasn’t. If the Cherokee parent or parents of these brothers and sister were enrolled, then that would still be lineal descent and the descendents of the one that left could enroll.
Also, we have to assume that the brother or sister wasn’t a half brother or sister that was of non Cherokee ancestry. I know of cases like these. Let’s say both kids had the same white father, and one kid had a Cherokee mother and the other had a white mother. They would be half brothers or sisters where one would not be Cherokee. I’ve known of some people that don’t bother to check this and come to the wrong conclusion. But then again, I do know of some genuine cases of what you speak of. In the case you speak of, let’s say a Cherokee man leaves the Cherokee Nation with his mother and father, or for whatever reason they didn’t enroll in Dawes either or died, and one sister stayed behind and was enrolled by Dawes. That probably happened in some cases. That’s true RB.
