Puyallup Indian Agency (Washington)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Chehalis, Clallam (Sklallam), Nisqualli, Puyallup, Quinaielt, Skokomish, Squaxon, and others.

Records
Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1888-1909. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 407-409. 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 roll numbers 581401-581403). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Puyallup Indian Industrial School. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Puyallup Agency, as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 256, Puyallup Indian Industrial School, in Pierce County, Washington.