Pawnee Indian Agency (Nebraska)

The Pawnee Agency was located in Nebraska until 1875. It is now located in Oklahoma. Its supervising office in the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the Anadarko Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Pawnee

History
The Pawnee Agency was established in 1859 for the Pawnee Indians previously assigned to the Otoe Agency since 1856 and to Council Bluffs Agency prior to that. It was located at Genoa, Nebraska until 1875, when it was moved to the new Pawnee Reservation on Black Bear Creek, about 8 miles from the Arkansas River in Indian Territory.

For the later history of the Pawnee Agency, after its move to Indian Territory, see Pawnee Indian Agency (Oklahoma).

Records
Some of the records of the Pawnee Agency are in the Southwest Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Fort Worth and the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City. Most of these records are administrative records of the agency, although there are some probate records, 1915-1940 and school census records, 1916-1945.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Pawnee Agency, 1859-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 659-668. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their microfilm roll numbers 1661389 thru 1661398.

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 Pawnee Agency, 1873-1880, are on roll 35 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 1617728).