Pawnee Indian Agency (Nebraska)

The Pawnee Agency was located in Nebraska until 1875. It is now located in Oklahoma. Its supervising office in the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the Anadarko Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Pawnee

History
The Pawnee Agency was established in 1859 for the Pawnee Indians previously assigned to the Otoe Agency since 1856 and to Council Bluffs Agency prior to that. It was located at Genoa, Nebraska until 1875, when it was moved to the new Pawnee Reservation on Black Bear Creek, about 8 miles from the Arkansas River in Indian Territory.

For the later history of the Pawnee Agency, after its move to Indian Territory, see Pawnee Indian Agency (Oklahoma).

Agents and Appointment Dates
James L. Gillis 1859 and 1860, Henry DePuy 1861, Benjamin F. Lushbaugh 1862, Daniel H. Wheeler 1865, John P. Becker 1866, Charles H. Whaley 1867, Jacob M. Troth 1869, William Burgess 1873, Charles H. Searing 1877, Samuel Ely 1878, A. C. Williams 1878, John C. Smith 1879, and Edward H. Bowman 1880

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 these offices.

Some of the records of the Pawnee Agency are in the National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) and the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City. Most of these records are administrative records of the agency, although there are some probate records, 1915-1940 and school census records, 1916-1945.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Pawnee Agency, 1859-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 659-668. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their.

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 Pawnee Agency, 1873-1880, are on roll 35 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 ).