Nevada Indian Agency (Nevada)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Paiute, Shoshone, Washoe

History
The Nevada Agency was a continuation of the Carson Valley Agency. It was abolished in 1921, but in 1952 was established as a statewide jurisdiction reporting to the Phoenix Area Office.

Agents
Frederick Dodge 1858, Jacob T. Lockhart 1861, Franklin Campbell 1865, Lt. Jesse M. Lee1869, George Balcom 1870, Calvin A. Bateman 1871, and A. J. Barnes 1875, William M. Garvey 1879, and James E. Spencer 1879

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.

records of the Nevada Agency are in the Pacific Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in San Francisco

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1886-1907 and for 1909 thru 1921. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 288-289. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the FamilySearch Library and its family history centers (their ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Nevada Agency. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Nevada Agency, as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population. They are recorded as District 51, Nevada Agency (also known as Pyramid Lake Agency), in Washoe County, Nevada. (index and images) - FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Nevada Agency, 1907-1922, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 92, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City,.

Records available through FamilySearch Library

 * Tribal roll for the Pyramid Lake Paiute FS Library Film: 1036740 Item 5


 * Census Rolls 1886-1907, 1909-1921 FS Library Film: 579698 and 579699