Northern Navajo Indian Agency (Arizona)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Navajo

History
The original Navajo Agency was established in 1852 for the Navajo Indians in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. After 1901, this agency was gradually divided into several independent agencies. One of those was the Northern Navajo Agency which operated ftrom at least 1903 to 1935. The agency was also known as the Shiprock Agency or Subagency. In 1935, the independent agencies were consolidated into one agency called the Navajo Service, with headquarters in Window Rock, Arizona.

In 1949, the Window Rock Area Office was established and a Navajo Agency was created under the Area Office. Some of the former agencies were reduced to subagency status at that time.

Records
Some correspondence and other records for the Northern Navajo Agency, 1903-1912 and 1949-1955 are in the Pacific Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Laguna Niguel. Additional records for the Northern Navajo Agency, 1933-1945, are also in the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver).

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Northern Navajo Agency, 1927-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 93, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their microfilm number 1724311.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1930 thru 1935. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 303 thru 307. 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 579713-579717). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.