Coeur d'Alene Indian Agency (Idaho)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency

 * Coeur d'Alene
 * Colville (1914 only)
 * Kalispel
 * Kutenai
 * Nez Perce (after 1934)
 * Spokan (until 1925)

History
The Coeur d'Alene Agency was established in 1905 for the Coeur d'Alene and Spokan Indians which had previously been under the jurisdiction of the Colville Agency. This agency was made responsible for the Kutenai and Kalispel tribes in 1912. These tribes had reservations in Idaho and Washington, respectively. The name of the Coeur d'Alene Agency was changed to the Northern Idaho Agency in 1937.

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.

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Coeur d'Alene Agency, as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 146 in Kootenai County, Idaho.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Coeur d'Alene Agency, 1907-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 21, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their. Reports for some years are missing.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1906 and from 1910 thru 1937. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 43-45. 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.

Vital Records
Coeur d'Alene Agency births and deaths,from supplemental census rolls (M595)1931-1937 FHL Film: 574204

Birth and Death Records 1918-1935 FHL film 1030792 Item 2

1918-1933 Census Records. FHL Film: 1030792 item 1