Navajo Service Indian Agency

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Navajo

History
The various independent agencies for the Navajo Indians were consolidated in 1935 to form the Navajo Service, with headquarters in Window Rock, Arizona.

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 records for Navajo Service, 1933-1945, are in the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver).