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Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration (ISSN 0033-1031) is published quarterly by the National Archives Trust Fund Board, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. Periodicals postage paid at College Park, MD, and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send address changes to Prologue, National Archives and Records Administration, NPOL/Room 4100, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. INDEXED in Acad. Abstr., Amer. Hist. & Life. Bibl. Cart., Hist. Abst. (Pts. A & B), Hum. Ind., Mag. Art. Sum., U.S. Govt. Per. Ind., Writ. Am. Hist., & Winter Prologue.

COVER: "The Snapping Turtle-Choctaw,” a portrait of Peter Pitchlynn in the early 1830s by George Catlin. As a member of the Choctaw National Council, Pitchlynn helped select the western lands for tribal relocation. These lands, in turn, became the focus of the new federal policy of allotment after 1898, a process explored in this issue.

ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES John W. Carlin

EDITOR

James B. Walsham

MANAGING EDITOR Mary C. Ryan

EDITORIAL STAFF Benjamin Guterman Maureen MacDonald

ART DIRECTOR

Serene Feldman Werblood