Hayward Indian Agency (Wisconsin)

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Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewas

History
The Hayward School was established in 1901 and was under the La Pointe Agency until 1904. In 1911 it was given agency duties for the Lac Courte Orielle Reservation. When the school closed in 1933, the agency duties were transferred to the Lax du Flambeau Agency.

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.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Hayward Agency and School, 1908-1933, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 63, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1916-1926, and for 1928-1933. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 179-181. 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.