Kickapoo Indian Agency (Kansas)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Kickapoo, a few Potawatomi

History
The Kickapoo Agency was first established in 1855 for the Kickapoo Indians of Kansas and a few Potawatomi who had been assigned to the Great Nemaha Agency since 1851. Before 1873, the agency headquarters alternated between Kennekuk and Muscotah in northeastern Kansas. In 1873, it was moved farther wast to Netawaka. In 1874, the Kickapoo Agency was consolidated with the Potawatomi Agency.

In 1903, the Potawatomi and Great Nemaha Agency was divided,the Kickapoo Agency was again established for the Kickapoo, the Sauk and Fox, and the Iowa tribes. It was recombined with the Potawatomi Agency in 1919 and called the Kickapoo Agency, but in 1921, the name was changed to the Potawatomi Agency and the Kickapoo Agency name was discontinued.

Agents and Appointment Dates
Royal Baldwin April 21, 1855, William P. Badger June 3, 1858, Charles B. Keith July 16, 1861, Abram Bennett May 7, 1864, Franklin G. Adams March 16, 1865, John D. Miles June 22, 1869, and B.H. Miles January 3, 1873

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.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Kickapoo Agency, 1855-1876, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 371-374. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their ).

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Kickapoo Agency, 1907-1920, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 70, 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 1903 thru 1920. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 210. 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.