Keshena Indian Agency (Wisconsin)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Menominee, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Munsee

History
The Keshena Agency was the successor to the Green Bay Agency which was established in 1815. The Green Bay Agency was renamed Keshena in 1909. A separate Oneida Agency existed from 1909 to 1919. The Keshena Agency was merged with the Menominee Indian Mills to form the Menominee 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.

Some records for the Keshena Agency are in the Great Lakes Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Chicago, including:


 * Oneida census rolls, 1892-1934
 * Registers of Oneida births, deaths, and families, 1902-19218
 * Annuity pay rolls, 1909-1939
 * Records concerning determination of degree of blood and tribal roll for the Menominee, 1939-1941
 * And other administrative and financial records, 1910-1943

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1909 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 200 thru 209. 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.

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Keshena Agency, 1910-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, rolls 69-70, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their ).

Records Available through the Family History Library
Births and Deaths, 1924-1932 census Supplements FHL film 576894