Pawnee Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

The Pawnee Agency is located in Oklahoma. Its supervising office in the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the Anadarko Area Office.

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
1859-present -- Pawnee

1919-1921 -- Otoe, Ponca, Kansa

1927-present -- Pawnee, Otoe, Ponca, Kansa, Tonkawa

Link to US Department of the Interior Indian Affairs - Pawnee Agency " four tribes under jurisdiction: Ote-Missouria Tribe, Pawnee Nation, Tonkawa Tribe, and the Ponca Tribe"

History
The Pawnee Agency in Nebraska was established in 1859 for the Pawnee Indians previously assigned to the Otoe Agency since 1856 and to Council Bluffs Agency prior to that. It was located at Genoa, Nebraska until 1875, when it was moved to the new Pawnee Reservation on Black Bear Creek, about 8 miles from the Arkansas River in Indian Territory.

In 1882, the Ponca Agency and the Otoe Agency merged with the Pawnee Agency to form the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency. In 1885, a group of Tonkawa Indians joined them and the agency was known as the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency. During the years of 1901-1904, the Otoe Agency and the Oakland Agency were re-established.

In 1919, the Otoe and Ponca Agencies were merged with the Pawnee Agency. In 1921, the Ponca Agency was again re-established, but the Kansa Indians, who had been a part of the Ponca Agency, stayed with the Pawnee Agency. The Ponca Agency was permanently merged with the Pawnee Agency in 1927.

Pawnee Pride: A History of Pawnee County. by Kenny A. Franks and paul F. Lambert. Oklahoma City, OK. 1994

Some Things are not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers. by Martha Royce Blaine and Garland James Blaine. Lincoln, NB. University of Nebraska Press. 1997.

The Pawnee Indians. by George E. Hyde. Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press. 1974.

The Dunbar-Allis Letters on the Pawnee. Woldo Rudouph Weztel, John Dunvar, and Samuel Allis. New York, NY: Garland Pub. 1985.

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.

For Records of the Pawnee Tribe search agency records: Pawnee Indian Agency (Nebraska) and Pawnee Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

Some of the records of the Pawnee Agency are in the National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) and the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City. Most of these records are administrative records of the agency, although there are some probate records, 1915-1940 and school census records, 1916-1945.

Some Pawnee Agency (Oklahoma) records 1873-1918 are in the Indian Archives Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Family History Library has a collection of 55 microfilm

Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Pawnee Agency, 1859-1880, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 659-668. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their.

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 Pawnee Agency, 1873-1880, are on roll 35 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 copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Pawnee Agency, 1907-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Rolls 100-102, 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 1902 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 336-343. 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

 * Birth and Death records 1924-1932, FHL film 579750 (This film is part of the Indian Census Rolls - Census Supplement)


 * Allotment Rolls and Index to allotment numbers, 1887-1929.United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Pawnee Indian Reservation Land Allotment ledger. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Annuity Payroll Records, 1883-1928. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth,TX.


 * Ponca Tribe, 1886-1952 (Annuity, Census, Heirship, School, Probate,and Vital) FHL films:1204632-33, 1021359-62,


 * Otoe-Missouri, 1895-1944 (Allotment, Census, School,Vital) FHL films: 1205233, 1023978, 1204635


 * Heirship records: Department finding determining the heirs of deceased Indians prior to 1940. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency.


 * Register of Indian families, Pawnee Tribe, 1905-1907. Unites States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Original Discharge Papers, 1864-1877 ( Military-Civil War) United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Register of Vital Statistics, 1909-1952; delayed birth certificates, 1944-1952. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pawnee Agency.


 * Register of births and deaths of Pawnee, Kaw, Ponca, Otoe, and Tonkawa Indian tribes, 1915-1929. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Tonkawa Tribe, 1895-1952 (Allotment, School and Vital). FHL films 1205529 and 1204633


 * School Census, 1934-1944. United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Pawnee School Student Roster, 1947-1950. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Blue line maps. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pawnee Agency. Fort Worth, TX.


 * Senate Document no. 512, Twenty-Third Congress, 1st Session. By Larry S. Watson. Laguna Hills, CA: Histree, 1988. {FHL|42744|item|disp= |FHL book 970.1 W335s vol. 1-5}