Tongue River Indian Agency (Montana)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Northern Cheyenne

History
Sometime after 1939, the name of the Tongue River Agency was changed to the Northern Cheyenne Agency, the name under which it currently operates.

Records
Agencies and subagencies were created as administrative offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its predecessors. Their purpose was (and is) to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same. Many of the records of genealogical value (for the tribe and tribal members) were created by and maintained by the agencies.

A register of allotments for the Tongue River Agency is in the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver).

Reports of Inspection of the Field Jurisdictions of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1873-1900 have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of Microcopy Number M1070. The reports for Tongue River Agency, 1884-1900, are on roll 53 of that Microcopy set. Copies are available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their ).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1888-1920, and 1922-1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 574 thru 579. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Tongue River Agency, 1907-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 150-151, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their.