Northern Cheyenne Indian Agency (Montana)

The Northern Cheyenne Indian Agency is the administrative office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in south-central Montana. Its supervising office is the Billings Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Northern Cheyenne

History
The original agency for the Northern Cheyenne Reservation was established in 1886 as the Tongue River Agency. Sometime after 1939, the name was changed to the Northern Cheyenne Agency. The Northern Cheyenne Reservation includes land in Big Horn and Rosebud Counties, Montana.

Records
Many of the historical records of this agency, and its predecessor, the Tongue River Agency, are housed in the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Denver, Colorado. Records in that collection which may be of assistance to the genealogist include:


 * Allotment rolls, 1926-1931
 * Annuity payrolls, 1892-1905
 * Birth and death cards, 1926-1937
 * Census rolls, 1909-1929 (FHL Films 181366-181367)
 * School census cards, 1966-1975

Many more records of lesser genealogical value are also in this collection.

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Tongue River Indian Reservation. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Tongue River Agency (now Northern Cheyenne Agency), as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 208, Tongue River Agency, in Custer County, Montana.


 * Heirship Records 1907-1950 (FHL Films 181364 and 181365)
 * Land Allotment Records 1895-1947 (FHL Films 181368 and 181369)
 * School Records 1891-1945 (FHL Films 1026998-1027000)
 * Vital Records 1914-1939 (FHL Film 181363)