Starr Roll 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls) - Cherokee Series

"The Starr Roll, 1894 (Cherokee Payment Rolls and Index) is found in the National Archives film 7RA38, Rolls 2-5, under the heading Record Group 75. The rolls or lists were compiled by Ezekiel Eugene Starr (1849-1905), a Cherokee Senator for the Flint District in 1883 and then Treasurer for the Western Cherokee Nation in 1891. The background to the Starr Roll requires some telling. On March 3, 1893, Congress passed an act that authorized the sale of lands west of the Cherokee Nation lands known as the Cherokee Outlet, and later referred to as the 1894 Cherokee Strip Payment. Originally created by agreement with the Eastern Cherokee in 1835, the Cherokee Outlet occupied a strip of land fifty-seven miles wide in present-day northern/northwestern Oklahoma and was intended as a "perpetual outlet west" for the Cherokee. After 1877 the Cherokee National leased the Outlet to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association, who desired it for its rich