Fort Peck Indian Agency (Montana)

The Fort Peck Indian Agency is the administrative office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana.

Records
Many of the historical records of this agency are housed in the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Denver, Colorado. Records in that collection which may be of assistance to the genealogist include:


 * Records of birth, death, marriages, adoption, and divorce, 1882-1920
 * Land patents, 1914-1918
 * List of Turtle Mountain halfbreeds, 1881
 * List of allottees, no date
 * List of Assiniboine school children, 1910
 * School census, 1916

Many more records of lesser genealogical value are also in this collection.

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 Crow Agency, 1881-1900, are on rolls 18-9 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 microfilm roll numbers 1617681-1617682).

Microfilm copies of “Narrative and Statistical Reports” for the Crow Agency, 1905-1937, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 48-50, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, beginning with their microfilm numbers 1724248-1724249.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1891-1895, 1897-1908, and from 1912 thru 1940. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 79 thru 86. 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 microfilm numbers 575771-575778). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.