EQUITY CASE 7071 QUESTIONNAIRE

Equity Case 7071 Questionnaire

In an effort to determine and organize the number of descendants who had an ancestor among the people included in Equity Case 7071, we are seeking answers to the following questions. There are estimates that the descendants to this lawsuit could be more than twenty-thousand people; if true, we need to identify who we are.

• What do you know about Equity Case 7071?
• How many people in your family are aware of Equity Case 7071?
• Can you identify the number of immediate family that can show a direct connection to a Dawes enrollee?
• Do you have more than one direct ancestor that was part of Equity Case 7071
• Have you taken a DNA test?
• Did that test indicate you have “Native American” ancestry?
• What was the percentage?
• Can you identify your ancestor that was part of Equity Case 7071?
• Do you have an image or photo of this ancestor?
• Would you be willing to share that image?
• Do you have an ancestor that should have been part of Equity Case 7071
• What would you like to see done about those who descend from someone that was part of Equity Case 7071?
• Would you help fund an effort to lobby Congress about resolving Equity Case 7071?
• Would you contribute money on a regular interval (monthly, quarterly, yearly) to support a legal case for Equity Case 7071?
• What is your contact information?

Name, email address, phone number (optional)

 Please Respond to the email address below

All personal information will be kept confidential

 Reply to equitycase7071@gmail.com

To determine if you have an ancestor that meets the criteria of a claimant in Equity Case 7071, you had to have an ancestor that was living in Indian Territory (pre-Oklahoma) in 1898-99 AND applied for a land allotment with the Dawes Commission.

That ancestor would have subsequently filed a petition to transfer from the Choctaw or Chickasaw Freedmen Roll to the Choctaw or Chickasaw By Blood Roll.

It was the compiling of those petitions and people that make up the litigants in Equity Case 7071 and you can see a list of their names at the following link:

EquityCase 7071; Bettie Ligon et al., Plaintiffs v Douglas H. Johnston et al., GreenMcCurtain, et al., and James R. Garfield Secretary