Southern Pueblos Indian Agency (New Mexico)

The Southern Pueblos Agency is a currently operating agency. Its supervising office in the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the Albuquerque Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Pueblo, Navajo

History
The Southern Pueblos Agency was established in 1919, along with the Northern Pueblos Agency. These two agencies assumed responsibilities formerly held by the Pueblos Agency. The Southern Pueblos Agency had jurisdiction over the Laguna Sanatorium, the Navajo communities of Canoncito and Puertocito, and the pueblos and day schools in the proximity of Albuquerque, where the agency had its headquarters. The Laguna Sanatorium became independent in 1924. The Southern Pueblos Agency was abolished in 1935 and its responsibilities were transferred to the new United Pueblos 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.

Some of the historical textual records of the Southern Pueblos Agency, which may include records of earlier agencies having jurisdiction over the same tribes, are now housed at the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Denver. Among those records, of particular value for genealogical and historical research, are:


 * Allotment records, 1909-1928
 * List of patients at health facilities, 1814-1934
 * Birth and death certificates, 1918-1920
 * a list of students, 1924

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1920 thru 1935. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 532-542. 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.

Records Available through the Family History Library
Vital Records from Indian Census Rolls (from above collection)


 * Birth and Death records 1924 -1931 FHL film 581914 Birth and Death records 1926-1932 FHL film 581915


 * Correspondence, Allotment, Census, Vital, School,;1911-1935 FHL Film: 1266685-1266687and 1249703-1249708