Native American Resources

This special collection is aimed at providing research material concerning the history and genealogy of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Ft. Sill Apache tribes of Southwest Oklahoma.

Research Guides

• FamilySearch Wiki: www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Starting_Native_American_Research

• FamilySearch Wiki: www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Oklahoma_Indigenous_Peoples

• Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center: www.okhistory.org/research/americanindians

Selected Resources in the Family History Room

• Family Record Book: Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes, 1901, maintained by the Kiowa Agency.
• Kiowa Agency Census Rolls, 1869-1939
• Kiowa Agency Birth and Death Rolls, 1924-1932
• Kiowa Agency Births, Marriages, Divorces, Deaths, Wills, and Related Records, 1869-1925
• Kiowa Agency Estate Records, 1872-1925
• Fort Sill Apaches: Their Vital Statistics, Tribal Origins, and Antecedents, by Gillett Griswold
• Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Obituaries, compiled by Sam DeVenney. 4 vols.
• Schedule of Land Allotments
• Cheyenne and Arapahoe Family Record Book, 1891, maintained by the Cantonment Area Office, BIA
• Indian allotments plat maps in Southwest Oklahoma
• Indian cemetery records
• Miscellaneous material in the Indian Vertical Files: a collection of news clippings, articles, pamphlets, genealogy sheets, pictures, etc.

Tribal Offices

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
511 E. Colorado, PO Box 1330
Anadarko, OK 73005
405.247.9493 or 800.246.2942
www.apachetribe.org

Comanche Tribe
584 NW Bingo Rd., PO Box 908
Lawton, OK 73502
580.492.3240 or 877.492.4988
info@comanchenation.com
www.comanchenation.com

Comanche Nation Museum and Cultural Center
701 NW Ferris Ave
Lawton, OK 73507
580.353.0404
info@comanchemuseum.com
www.comanchemuseum.com

Ft. Sill Apache Tribe
43187 US Hwy 281
Apache, OK 73006
580.588.2298  
www.fortsillapache-nsn.gov

Kiowa Tribe
100 Kiowa Way, PO Box 369
Carnegie, OK 73015
580.654.2300
www.kiowatribe.org

Kiowa Tribal Museum and Resource Center
100 Kiowa Way
Carnegie, OK 73015
580.654.2300, ext. 217
museum@kiowatribe.org

BIA-Southern Plains Regional Office
Hwy 281 N. and Parker McKenzie Rd., PO Box 309
Anadarko, OK 73005
405.247.6673
www.bia.gov/regional-office/southern-plains-region

For contact information on all Oklahoma tribes visit the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Recommended Websites

• Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center: www.okhistory.org/historycenter/
• National Archives at Fort Worth: www.archives.gov/research/native-americans
• Doris Duke Oral History Collection, Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman OK. (Interviews with hundreds of Oklahoma Native Americans during 1967-1972.): digital.libraries.ou.edu.whc/duke
• Familysearch.org: www.familysearch.org
• The Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee: www.comanchelanguage.org/
• The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture:  www.okhistory.org/publications/encyclopediaonline
• First Americans Museum, Oklahoma: famok.org/

Selected Comanche Resources

Compiled by Barbara Morris Goodin

• 1901 Family Record Book: Kiowa Comanche Apache Tribes. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1901. Call #: GENE E78.O45 F22 OVERSIZED
• 1995 Centennial History Book: Post Oak Mission and Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church. Taylor Publishing, 1995. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P68
• Being Comanche, by Morris W. Foster. University of Arizona Press, 1991. Call #: GENE E99.C85 F67
• Comanche Allotment Book, Lawton District #5, copied by Vickie Washburn Cox and Wayne Cox. Fay Riddles Washburn, 2010. Call #: E99.C85 C55
• Comanche and Kiowa Captives in Oklahoma and Texas, by Hugh D. Corwin. Cooperative Publishing Co., 1959. Call #: GENE E99.C85 C6
• Comanche Belief and Rituals (thesis), by Daniel J. Gelo. University of New Jersey, Rutgers, 1986. Call #: GENE E99.C85 G28
• Comanche Census, 1879-1885, 1895, 1905, 1911, 1917, 1922, 1927,1932, and 1937, compiled by various authors. 9 vols. Call #: GENE E99.C85 C4
• Comanche Code Talkers of World War II, by Dr. William C. Meadows. University of Texas Press, 2003. Call #: GENE E99.C85 M42
• Comanche Ethnography, compiled by Thomas W. Kavanagh. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Call #: GENE E99.C85 C473
• Comanche, Kiowa & Apache Obituaries, by Sam DeVenney. 4 vols. and index.
• Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1999. Call #: GENE E78.O45 D38
• Comanche Land, by J. Emmor Harston. Naylor Co., 1963. Call #: GENE E99.C85 H3
• Los Comanches: The Horse People, by Stanley Noyes. University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Call #: GENE E99.C85 N69
• The Comanches, A History: 1706-1875, by Thomas W. Kavanagh. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Call #: NAT AMER 970.3 KAVA
• Comanches and Mennonites on the Oklahoma Plains, by Marvin E. Kroeker. Kindred Productions, 1997. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P68 K8
• Comanches in the New West, 1895-1908: Historical Photographs, text by Stanley University of Texas at Austin, 1999. Call #: GENE E99.C85 N68
• Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, by Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel. University of Oklahoma Press. 1986. Call #: GENE E99.C85 W3
• Deyo Mission, by Barbara and Kenneth Goodin. 1994. Call #: GENE E99.C85 G65
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, by S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 2010. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P3835
• Indian Allotments (Lay-out of Indian Lands in SW Oklahoma), by the U.S. General Land Office. Call #: GENE E99.O45 I42 OVERSIZED
• Indian Research and History, with Biographies, Book Reviews and Cemeteries, by Barbara Morris Goodin. Call #: GENE E98.G44 G66
• Index, Family History Sheet, ca. 1942, Anadarko, OK, by the Anadarko Area Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Call #: GENE E78.O45 I5
• An Index to Area Indian Cemeteries (of Comanche County, OK), by Barbara and Kenneth Goodin, 1991. Call #: GENE E99.C85 G66
• Issues in Penatuhkah Comanche Ethnohistory (thesis), by Linda Pelon. University of Texas at Arlington, 1993. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P45
• Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Military Societies, by William Meadow. University of Texas Press, 1999. Call #: GENE E78.K5 M43
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo and Delaware Indian Birth and Death Rolls, 1924-1932. Mountain Press, 1996. Call #: GENE E99.O45 B68
• The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker, by Bill Neeley. John Wiley and Sons, 1995. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P385
• Myth, Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, by Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum. Texas Tech University Press, 2010. Call Number: Call #: GENE E99.C85 P374
• Otipoby Comanche Cemetery Centennial 1888-1988, edited by Barbara Goodin. Comanche Printing, 1988. Supplement, by Gladys Narcomey. Call #: GENE E99.C85 O85
• Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, by William T. Hagen. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P3838
• Relocation of Post Oak Cemetery, Fort Sill OK, by Barbara Goodin. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1993. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P68 G6
• The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker: Sunshine on the Prairie, by Jack C. Ramsay, Jr. Eakin. Press, 1990. Call #: GENE E99.C85 P377
• United States/Comanche Relations: The Reservation Years, by W. T. Hagan. Yale University Press, 1939. Call #: GENE E99.C85 H26