Vermillion Lake Indian Agency (Minnesota)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Bois Fort Band of Chippewa

Records
The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:


 * Allotment records
 * Annuity rolls
 * Census records
 * Correspondence
 * Health records
 * Reports
 * School census and records
 * Vital records

Some of the records of Vermilion Lake Agency are in the Central Plains Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Kansas City, including:


 * Census, 1906
 * Applications for admission to Vermilion Lake Schools, 1910-1918
 * Employee register cards, 1917

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1907. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 628. 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 website.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Vermilion Lake School, 1907-1919, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 161, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City (their.