Navajo Springs Indian Agency (Colorado)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Southern Ute

History
This jurisdiction became the Ute Mountain Agency in 1915.

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 correspondence, 1908-1914, and a census roll for 1900 for the Navajo Springs Agency are in the National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver).

A 1904 census of the Southern Ute Indians under the supervision of the Navajo Springs Agency is available online.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Navajo Agency, 1910-1914, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 90, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their ).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1909 thru 1914. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 282. 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 ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.