Tuba City Indian Agency (Arizona)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Navajo,

History
The Tuba City Agency or Subagency is another name for the Western Navajo Agency. It sometimes is referred to by the Tuba City name as that is the location of the 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 records for the Tuba City Subagency, 1944-1958, are in the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver).

A map of the roads on the Navajo Reservation, created in 2008, is available online.

See also Western Navajo Agency for a listing of the records pertaining to this agency.