Family History Month: "Nations Remembered"
Book Discussion and Dawes Rolls Presentation
Thursday, July 17
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Hardesty Regional Library
Pecan Meeting RoomJoin Rebecca McWilliams, Oklahoma history librarian, and Aaron Pope, Genealogy Resource Center coordinator, for an engaging look at the rich heritage and history of Oklahoma’s Five Tribes.
Discover history and heritage through firsthand Works Progress Administration (WPA) accounts of Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole life from the Civil War to Oklahoma statehood in the amazing book Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma, 1865-1907 by Theda Perdue.
Join us for a discussion of this powerful book and stay for a lecture on using Ancestry Library Edition and the Oklahoma Historical Society's Dawes Rolls Index in which you can find Dawes rolls numbers and enrollment cards — a vital resource for tracing Indigenous ancestry.
Registration is required. For adults and teens.
Hardesty Regional Library
Services
- WiFi
- Wireless printing
- Checkout laptops for in-library use
- Public Access Computers
- Meeting Room(s)
- Bike Locks
- Recycling
- Audio Induction Looping, Auditorium Access
- Public Fax
- Family Place
- Genealogy Center
- FedEx Drop Box
