Upper Lake - Ukiah Indian Agency (California)

History
The Upper Lake-Ukiah Agency was established in 1909 to administer Indian affairs in Lake County, California and was expanded to include Sonoma and southern Mendocino Counties. In 1911, the agency was abolished and its duties were transferred to Round Valley 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.

A small amount of correspondence and fiscal records for the Upper Lake - Ukiah Agency, 1909-1911, is in the Pacific Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in San Francisco.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Upper Lake - Ukiah Agency, 1910-1911, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 161, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their ).