Cantonment Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Cheyenne and Arapaho

History
The Cantonment Agency was established in 1902 from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency. In 1927, the Cantonment Agency, Seger Agency, and Red Moon Agency were all merged back into the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, which today is the Concho 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.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Cantonment Agency, 1907-1927, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 8, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their. Reports for some years are missing.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1904 thru 1927. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 16 and 17. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the FamilySearch Library and its family history centers (their ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.