Carter Indian Agency (Wisconsin)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Potawatomi, Rice Lake Band of Chippewa

History
The Carter Agency was established in 1911 at Carter, Wisconsin with responsibility for several bands ( Carter, Wausaukee, Phlox, Mincoqua and Star Lake Bands) of Potawatomi Indians in Wisconsin and Michigan. It was moved to Laona, Wisconsin in 1916 and thereafter was known as the Laona 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.

Most of the records are included under the records of Laona Agency, although the following are considered records of the Carter Agency and are cataloged under that name in the records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Carter Agency, 1912-1914, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 11, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City (their ).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1915. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 22. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the FamilySearch Library and its family history centers (their ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.