Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs

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History
The Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs was established in 1850. After the Superintendency was abolished in 1870 and the agents reported directly to the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC. Some correspondence continued to be filed under "Utah" until the change of filing systems in 1881, however.

Records for Superintendencies exist in the National Archives and copies of many of them are also available in other research facilities.

Tribes
Ute, Paiute, Shoshoni, Bannock, Pahvant, Washoe

Superintendents
Brigham Young, Jacob Forney, Benjamin Davies, Henry Martin, James D. Doty, Thomas A. Marshall, Orsamus H. Irish, Franklin H. Head, Bvt. Col. J.E. Tourtellotte

Agencies
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.


 * Carson Valley Agency
 * Fort Bridger Agency
 * Uintah Valley Agency

Records
Records of the Utah Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1853-1874, are at the National Archives and have been microfilmed as their Microcopy Number M834. Copies are also available at the Denver and San Francisco Regional Archives. This set of microfilm of the records of the Utah Superintendency is also available at the and itsfamily history centers.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Utah Superintendency, 1849-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the and its family history centers on their microfilm roll numbers 1661627 thru 1661636.