Quapaw Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

History
Known as Seneca School before 13 October 1920.

Records
Many records of the Quapaw Agency are in the Southwest Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Fort Worth, including:


 * Census records --


 * Eastern Shawnee, 1882-1940
 * Miami, 1888-1940
 * Modoc, 1885-1890
 * Nez Perce, n.d.
 * Ottawa, 1883-1888
 * Peoria, 1883-1959
 * Quapaw, 1885-1933, with updates to 1955
 * Seneca, 1877-1940
 * Wyandot, 1871-1956


 * Death rolls, 1931-1935
 * Birth rolls, 1931-1935
 * Miami applications and rejected applications, 1972-1973
 * Land and property records, 1873-1959
 * School records, 1882-1940
 * And many other administrative files and correspondence

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Quapaw Agency, 1871-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 703-713. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their microfilm roll numbers 1661433 thru 1661443.

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 Quapaw Agency, 1874-1898, are on rolls 41-42 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 microfilm roll numbers 1617714-1617715).

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Quapaw Agency, 1921-1938, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 111-112, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their microfilm numbers 1724329-1724330.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1885-1900 and 1922 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 411-416. 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 microfilm roll numbers 581405-581410). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.