White Earth Indian Agency (Minnesota)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Chippewa

History
Transferred to Consolidated Chippewa, 30 June 1922.

Records
Many records for the White Earth Agency are in the Great Lakes Regional Archives of the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) in Chicago and in the Central Plains Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Kansas City.

Some of the records of this agency of particular interest to family historians, in the Great Lakes Archives, are:


 * Annuity rolls, 1880-1907
 * Employee rosters, 1883-1909
 * Allotment records, 1892-1915
 * Medical reports, 1895-1916
 * School reports, 1898-1918
 * Death certificates, 1903-1907
 * School census records, 1914-1918
 * Heirship records, 1914

Records of this agency of interest to family historians, in the Central Plains Archives, are:


 * Land records, 1871-1921
 * Allotment records, 1892-1921
 * Register of families, 1901
 * Births, deaths, marriages, 1904-1922
 * School records, 1916-1922

Some of the agency records from these regional archives have been microfilmed and copies are available in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and through their family history centers. These records are cataloged in their collection under the Consolidated Chippewa Agency, although almost all of the records are dated prior to the establishment of that agency.

Reports of Inspection of the Field Jurisdictions of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1873-1900 have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of Microcopy Number M1070. The reports for White Earth Agency, 1874-1894 and 1896-1900, are on rolls 57-58 of that Microcopy set. Copies are available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their microfilm roll numbers 1617730-1617731).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1885-1888, 1890-1892, and 1894-1922. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 649 thru 662. 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 microfilm numbers 583108-583121). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Yakima Agency, 1907-1922, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 169, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their microfilm numbers 1724387.