Jicarilla Indian Agency (New Mexico)

The Jicarilla Agency is a currently functioning agency. Its supervising office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the Albuquerque Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Jicarilla Apache

History
The Jicarilla Agency was established in 1901 for the Jicarilla Apache of northern New Mexico. Its records include some from predecessor agencies. The Jicarilla Apache were assigned to the Southern Ute Agency from 1887 to 1891, and to the Pueblo and Jicarilla Agency from 1891 to 1901.

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.

Some of the records of the Jicarilla Agency, 1890-1952, have been transferred to the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Denver. They include:


 * Land allotment records
 * School reports
 * Vital Records
 * Censuses

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Jicarilla Apache Indians in New Mexico. The Indians residing on this reservation in 1900 were under the jurisdiction of the Jicarilla Agency and are listed on Indian Population Schedules as District 184, Jicarilla Apache Reservation, in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1900 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 196 thru 198. 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 Jicarilla Agency, 1907-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 66-67, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their.

Records Available through the Family History Library

 * School reports FHL film 1275623-1275626
 * Census supplement Vital records of birth and death 1924-1929 FHL film 576887