Summary Information
United States. Office of Indian Affairs: Records
1910-1939
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs
Micro 108
9 reels of microfilm (35 mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Annual reports from the Indian agencies in Wisconsin to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding such concerns of the Indian population as agency personnel, agriculture, alcohol, peyote, and mescaline use, health, industries, land allotments, law and order, living conditions, lumber mills, morals and mores, schools, social life and customs, and trading facilities. Includes narrative reports, 1910-1939, and statistical reports, 1920-1939, by the superintendents of the agencies; and annual inspector's reports, 1909-1939.
English
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Scope and Content Note
These annual reports are excellent material for a history of any Indian Agency, or collectively for a history of the Indian Wards of the United States Government in Wisconsin in the period from 1910 to 1939. Generally speaking, the reports are quite detailed, highly informative, and interesting. They include information on the Indian population, health, industries, lumber mills, living conditions, schools, law and order, trading facilities, morals and mores, the personnel in charge of the Agencies, agriculture, land allotments, and a host of other things. The Narrative Reports (reports of the superintendent of an agency to the United States Office of Indian Affairs) are supposed to be, and many are, full and free in description of the work being carried on by the agency, its problems and successes. In these reports, the superintendent is encouraged to turn himself loose, and some do, though many are quite sterile. The Inspector's Reports are candid, graphic, and frank. An inspector was sent out to inspect each Indian jurisdiction annually and to report on all aspects of its administration and program. He discusses all aspects of the Agency, personnel, administrators, how agriculture is progressing, schools, etc. The separate Statistical Reports were introduced in 1920 and are strictly a “form” report covering all the work of an Indian jurisdiction that is subject to a statistical approach. The existing file of these reports in the National Archives is not complete for each year for every agency or jurisdiction in Wisconsin, but it is comparatively so.
Although the constituency served by the agencies changed occasionally, records from the Carter Agency and Lac du Flambeau and Laona agencies generally concern the Ojibwe (Chippewa) and Potawatomi Indians; records from the Grand Rapids Agency concern the Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians; records from the Hayward, La Pointe, and Red Cliff agencies concern the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians; records from the Keshena Agency concern the Menominee, Munsee, Oneida, and Stockbridge Indians; records from Menominee Mills concern the Menominee Indians; records from the Oneida Agency concern the Oneida Indians; and records from the Tomah Agency concern the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Munsee, Oneida, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Stockbridge, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Purchased, 1951. The original reports in Record Group 75 in the National Archives.
Contents List
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Micro 108
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Series: Narrative Reports
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1
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Grand Rapids Jurisdiction, 1916-1926
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Hayward School
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1
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1910-1913
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2
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1913-1933
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2
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Keshena School and Agency, 1910-1933
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2
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Lac du Flambeau School and Agency, 1910-1933
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2
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Carter, 1912-1914
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2
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Laona, 1916-1925
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3
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Laona Agency
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3
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La Pointe Agency
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3
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Oneida School
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3
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Red Cliff School
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3
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Tomah School and Agency
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Series: Statistical Reports
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3
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Grand Rapids
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4
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Grand Rapids (continued)
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4
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Hayward School
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4
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Keshena School
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4
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Oneida School
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5
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Keshena and Oneida Schools (continued)
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5
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Lac du Flambeau Jurisdiction
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5
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La Pointe Agency
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5
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Red Cliff School
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5
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Laona School
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6
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Lac du Flambeau Jurisdiction
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6
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Red Cliff School
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6
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Hayward Indian Hospital
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6
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Leona School
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6
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La Pointe and Red Cliff Schools
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6
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Menominee Mills
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6
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Tomah School
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7
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Tomah School (continued)
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7
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Grand Rapids Sub-agency
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Series: Inspector's Reports
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7
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Grand Rapids
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7
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Wisconsin Winnebago Agency
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7
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Hayward School
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8
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Keshena School
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8
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Lac du Flambeau School
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8
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Laona Agency
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9
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Lac du Flambeau
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9
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Laona
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9
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La Pointe
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9
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Red Cliff
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9
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Oneida
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9
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Tomah
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