Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, Hainai, Iowa, Kaw, Kichai, Tawakoni, Waco, and the Alabama-Coushatti Indians of Texas.

History
The Kiowa Agency and the Wichita Agency were consolidated 1 September 1878 and became the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency. It was still commonly called simply the Kiowa Agency and some of the records are filed under that name. The Agency headquarters for this agency was located at Anadarko, Oklahoma and became the forerunner to the Anadarko Agency.

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.

Some of the records of the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency are in the National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) and in the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City. Included among these records are:

In Fort Worth:


 * Estate and probate records, 1915-1948
 * Reports of births and deaths, 1917-1942
 * Tribal censuses, 1930-1934
 * Miscellaneous administrative records, abt. 1904-1950

In Oklahoma City:


 * Census rolls, 1879-1922
 * School records, 1870-1929
 * Various administrative records, 1854-1930

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 Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency, 1883-1900, are on rolls 20-21 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 ).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1895-1906 and from 1909 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 211 thru 223. 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.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, 1907-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 70-72, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their.