Michigan Superintendency of Indian Affairs

History
The Michigan Superintendency of Indian Affairs was established in. After the Superintendency was abolished in

Agencies
The records of the Michigan Superintendency includes correspondence mainly to and from the Detroit District, the Chicago Agency, Mackinac Agency, Sault Ste. Marie Agency and Fort Wayne Agency but also from the St. Peters Agency, the Picqua Agency, La Pointe Agency, Saganaw Subagency, and Green Bay Agency, concerning Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Sauk, Piankeshaw, Kaskaskia, Oneida, Milwaukie, Sandusky, Wea, Seneca, Mohawk, Fox, and Menominee Indians. The letters include annuities paid to Indians, gifts to them, military affairs, rations, accounts, schools, missions, treaties, law and order, blacksmiths, and licenses to trade with the Indians.

Records
Records of the Michigan Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1814-1882, are at the National Archives and have been microfilmed as their Microcopy Number M1. Copies are also available at the Chicago and San Francisco Regional Archives. This same set of microfilm of the records of the Michigan Superintendency is also available at the Family History Library and its family history centers.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Michigan Superintendency, 1824-1851, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their microfilm roll numbers 1661149 thru 1661157.