Wyoming Superintendency of Indian Affairs

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History
The Wyoming Superintendency functioned from April, 1869, until November, 1870.

Records for Superintendencies exist in the National Archives and copies of many of them are also available in other research facilities.

Agencies
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.

It had one agency, the Shoshone and Bannock Agency for Shoshoni and Bannock Indians.

Governor and Ex Officio Superintendent
John S. Campbell 1869

Records
Records of the Wyoming Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1870, are at the National Archives and have been microfilmed as part of their Microcopy Number M1016. Copies are also available at the Denver Regional Archives. This same roll of microfilm of the records of the Wyoming Superintendency is also available at the and its family history centers.

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Wyoming Superintendency, 1851-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the and its family history centers on their microfilm roll numbers 1661683 thru 1661688.