On September 8, 1891, the tribe signed an agreement with the Cherokee Commission for individual allotments.

On June 26, 1890, the tribe signed an agreement with the Cherokee Commission for individual allotments.

The tribe's lands were broken into individual allotments in 1890, and the government recorded its members on the Dawes Rolls.

No announcement was made of what the individual allotments would be.

In 1893 those of Lapwai were given individual allotments, and the reservation was opened to white settlement.

In 1914, the US federal government broke tribal landholdings into individual allotments.

All would receive individual allotments, with the remainder to be available for sale to European Americans.

Their Kansas lands were drastically reduced in 1854 and broken up into individual allotments in 1858.

Other descendants trace their heritage through the treaties of 1817 and 1819 with the federal government which gave individual allotments to Cherokees.

The tribe retained some communal holdings and has resisted continued individual allotments since its reorganization in the 1930s.