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Searching for Indian Land Documents

1/16/2019

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Indian land documents can be informative and can provide a glimpse into your family's past.  One of the most valuable tools online for searching Indian land is the Bureau of Land Management's  General Land Office records website.

This website provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

So let's start a quick search... [note that any of the images below can be clicked for an expanded view]
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First, we open the Search by Documents Type search menu. We enter location.
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The selected state is Minnesota. Next, we enter the name of the person we are searching for.
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Then, we can limit our search to specific land information (by query). We will use Indian Allotment as our Authority.
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We get our results after the system does its search.
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The search shows that John B Charette indeed had land under this authority. It was issued in 1874 in Marshall County, Minnesota and has an Accession # tied to the 1863 Red Lake & Pembina Band Treaty at the Old Crossing.  If we click the blue link, more information will open up.
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When opened, the following information is revealed: that it is a Chippewa treaty patent, issued in the State of Minnesota on January 20, 1874 and it was not canceled.  It shows the land office that issued the patent and what tribe the patent was issued to (Chippewa) and how many acres and where the land is at.  If you click the location link at the bottom, a map will open up.
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This map shows where the land was in relation to the surrounding area. In this case it is near the Red River Valley at the junction with the Park River - the location of a popular trading post at the time. It is just south of the modern-day community of Drayton, North Dakota. 

​If you click the patent image link above a copy of the original treaty patent will open.
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This document can be printed or downloaded as a PDF. It shows the information related to the Pembina/Red Lake treaty and lists the name of the individual and the certificate number.

​If you click the related documents link, the original USGS survey of the land will be made available.
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To do your own search, visit the BLM GLO Website at https://glorecords.blm.gov/
2 Comments
Joyce Grant-Worley
1/17/2019 01:07:13 am

You might also to type in the tribe name. You have to watch out for the variations on spelling of Turtle Mountain Chippewa. I found family members in both Montana and North Dakota and in a variety of counties. Also searched for Indian Trust Patent 1880 instead of Indian allotment

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Michele Dennis
4/4/2019 11:18:38 pm

I have requested these documents listed on the GLO reports for my family members. I have talked with several different entities who have informed me that just because the names appear does not mean that the land is still in the family names or owned by the family names. Could you please shine some light on this for me. I am not that knowledgeable on the accuracy and documentations as such.
Thanks Ever.

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