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
A register of allotments for the Tongue River Agency is in the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in 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 microfilm roll number 1617726).

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 microfilm numbers 583033-583038). 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 microfilm numbers 1724368-1724369.