Sacramento Indian Agency (California)

History
The Sacramento Agency was created 1 October 1923 by the consolidation of the Round Valley Agency, Greenville Agency, Tule River Agency, and part of the Reno Agency jurisdictions. The Sacramento Agency was super-ceded by the California Agency in 1947.

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 records for the Sacramento Agency, 1911-1947, are in the Pacific Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in San Francisco, including:


 * Allotment register, 1906-1928
 * School census cards, 1920-1940
 * Day school records, 1923-1932
 * Supplement to census roll of California Indians, 1928
 * Student case files, 1933-1945
 * And other administrative and fiscal records, 1911-1947

Census Records
Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1926 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 417. 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.

Records Available through the Family History Library

 * Birth and Death 1924-1932 (Indian Census supplemental roll- above) FHL film 581-450


 * Census Records, 1923-1939. FHL films: 581450 - 581451


 * Census Records, 1928, 1935. FHL films: 976980 item 7 and 976982


 * Heirship early 1900's. FHL film: 977774


 * Vital Records, 1910-1947. FHL films: 976980-976982