Truxton Canyon Indian Agency (Arizona)

The Truxton Cañon Agency is a currently operating agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Its supervising office is the Phoenix Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Walapai (Hualapai)

History
The Truxton Canyon Boarding School was established on the Walapai Reservation in 1901 and assigned agency duties for the Walapai and Havasupai Indians. In 1904, a separate Havasupai Agency was established.

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 administrative records of the Truxton Canyon Agency are in the Pacific Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Laguna Niguel, California.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Truxton Canon Agency, 1907-1937, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 151-152, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1901-1907, 1910-1926, and from 1928 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 580 and 581. 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.

Records Available through the Family History Library
Vital Records from Indian Census Rolls - above


 * Birth and Death records 1923-1939 FHL film 583040