Laona Indian Agency (Wisconsin)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Potawatomi, Rice Lake Band of Chippewa (mostly residing in Forest and Langlade Counties, Wisconsin)

History
The Laona Agency was the successor to the Carter Agency which had been established in 1911 at Carter, Wisconsin. When that agency was moved to Laona, Wisconsin in 1916, it thereafter was known as the Laona Agency. The Laona Agency was consolidated with the Lac du Flambeau Agency, 16 May 1927, but continued to operate as a subagency for some years thereafter.

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.

Copies of some records for the Laona Agency are in the Great Lakes Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Chicago, with records of the Carter Agency, including:


 * Potawatomi census rolls, 1911-1933
 * Patient health records, 1914-1932
 * Records of births and deaths, 1924-1926
 * Other administrative and financial records, 1910-1932

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Laona Agency, 1916-1927, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, roll 77, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their ).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1916 thru 1927. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, Roll 233. 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.