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Tribes and Bands of Michigan

The name Michigan comes from a Chippewan word "Michigana" meaning "great or large lake" The following list of tribes and bands of American Indians who have lived in Michigan has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico... and Swanton's Indian Tribes of North America.

• Indians of the Midwest
• Great Lakes Region
• Natives Michigan
• Native American and French Settlement Patterns
• Michigan Tribes
• Michigan Natives
• Wikipedia

Tribes:

• Chippewa

Literature - Welker Chippewa

Tolats Ojib

Native Heritage Project Chippewa

Native Tech

Every Culture

History

• Delaware

Tolats Delaware

• Fox - Tolats
  
• Huron - see Wyandot

Tolats

• Kickapoo

Tolats

• Menominee

Dick Shovel

• Miami

Dick Shovel

• Neutrals - Dick Shovel
  
• Noquet - Access Genealogy
• Ottawa

A starting point for doing Ottawa/Odawa Indian genealogy research - Ottawa Indians

Scott Nicholson

Native Languages

Tolats

• Potawatomi

Trail of Tears - Potawatomi

Potawatomi Traditionals Prairie Band Res. 1930's Part 1

Potawatomi Traditionals Prairie Band Res. 1930's Part 2

Potawatomi Traditionals Prairie Band Res. 1930's Part 3

Tolats

• Sauk - Tolats
  
• Winnebago

Dick Shovel

• Wyandot
• Tribal Map
  

Tribes Recognized by the State of Michigan

Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, Gun Lake Village Band of Grand Lake Ottawa Indians, (Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi), Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribe, and Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan,

Bands:

• Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
• Croix Band of Chippewa
• Grand River- Grand River
  
• Grand Traverse
• Keweenaw Bay
• L'Anse
• Lac Vieux Desert
• Little River
• Little Traverse
• Mackinac
• Ontonagon
• Saginaw - Chippewa
• Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
  
• Michigan Wikipedia
• Michigan Government Documents
  

Agencies and Subagencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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 were created by these offices.

The following list of agencies that have operated or now exist in Michigan has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians, and others.

• Great Lakes Agency
• Lac du Flambeau Agency
• Mackinac Agency , 1828-1880
• Michigan Agency, Federal Square Office Plaza, P.O. Box 884,Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
• 1838 employees
• Saginaw Subagency
• Sault Ste. Marie Agency, 1824-1852

Records

The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:

• Allotment records
• Annuity rolls
• Census records
• Correspondence
• Health records
• Reports
• School census and records
• Vital records
• Mackinac records

Allotment Records

Allotted Tribes of Michigan

•Isabella Reservation (Chippewa of Saginaw, Sawn Creek and Black River), L’Anse and Vieux Desert, Ontonagon

• 1836 Ance's Band
• 1839 Mackinac, Bois Blanc & Round Is.
  
• 1839 Shawbwayway's Band
  
• 1842 Ance's Band
• 1842 Mackinac Band

Census Records

• 1839 Carp River

1860 Indians of Michigan, Index of Indians appearing in the 1860 Federal Census of Michigan; published in Michigan 1860 Federal Census Index (North Salt Lake, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems International,n.d.) pages 420-425.

Church Records

• Michilimackinac Marriage Records
  
• Mackinac Baptism Records 1810-1821
  
• L'Anse - Church Records
  
• Oka, Quebec
  

Families: Indian, Metis

Multiple families:

• Native American Families
  
• Habitant Heritage
  
• Research Resources
  

ALLEN / Naish-ka-ze

Report

ANCE / ANSE

• Genealogy wise
  

ASKIN

ASSIGINACK

• Facebook groups
  

ASSINIWE

• Facebook Groups
  

BAILLEY

• Chesterton Tribune
  
• Facebook Group
  
• Wikipedia
  

BEAUBIEN

• Facebook Group
  

BEAUCHAMP / BOUSHAW

• Facebook Group
  

BERTRAND

• Joseph and Madeleine

BISSAILON

BLACKBIRD

• Facebook Group
  

BOURASSA

• Facebook Groups

CADOT(TE)

• Mathurin Cadeau
  
• Fur Trader's Account Book
  

CAMPAU

• Facebook Group
  

CHEESMAN

CHIPPEWA

• Facebook Group

COBMOOSA aka WALKER

• Facebook Groups
  
• Facebook Groups
  

COON / KOON

• (see attached file)
  

CORNSTALK

• Facebook Group
  

COWN / CANNE / COWAN

• Native American Ancestry Mackinac-Metis-Families

DAVENPORT

• Family Tree Maker

ERMENTINGER

• Ermentinger Family

ESPIEW

• Espiew Family

FAGNANT & FONTAINE

• Mackinac Metis Families

FARLING

• Facebook Group
  

GESICK

• Facebook Groups
  

GORNOR / GURNOE

• Facebook Group
  

GREENSKY

• Facebook Group
  

JACKO

• Facebook Groups
  

JOHNSTON

• John-Johnston
  

KAWBAAHSHE

• Facebook Group

KINONCHAUSIE

LaFRAMBOISE

(De)LANGLADE

• Hoxsie Family
  
• Facebook Group
  

LAPINE

• Facebook Group
  

LaPLANTE

• Facebook Group
  

LEASK

• Facebook Group

LEBLANC

• Facebook Group
  

LOUISIGNAN

• Facebook Groups
  

LOZON

• Facebook Groups
  

MADOSH

• Facebook Groups
  

MAISHCAW / MAISHKAW

• Facebook Group
  

MARCOT

MARTIN - SOUD

• Habitant Heritage
  
• Facebook Group
  

MASTA(W)

• Facebook Group
  
• Facebook Group
  

McGULPIN

• Facebook Groups

McSAWBY

• McSawby Family

MEEMEE

• Facebook Group
  

MONTOUR / MONTURE

• Family

Nay-wash-metta-wash Descendants

• Facebook Groups

(O')FLINN / FLYNN

• Facebook Group

OTTOWANCE

• Facebook Group
  

OZAMICK

• Facebook Groups
  

Pay-She-Ne-Ne-Abe descendants

• Facebook Groups

PONGOWISH

• Facebook Group
  

PONTIAC

• Facebook Groups
  

PRICKETT

• Facebook Groups

SABO / SABBOOE

• Sabbooe Families
  

SHOMIN

• Facebook Groups
  

SHOPPENGON

• Facebook Group

SOLOMON

• Facebook Group
  

ST.ONGE

• Facebook Group

TANNER

• Facebook Group
  

TROT(T)IER

• Facebook Group

WABANIMIKI

• Facebook Group
  

Biographies

Miscellaneous leaders, not all resided in Michigan but may have had descendants -

Chippewa Indian Chiefs and Leaders

• Blackbird, Andrew J.

Andrew Blackbird

Andrew Blackbird

AIS Assets

Michigan Markers

Book Blackbird

• Cobmoosa

Wikipedia

Monument

Life

Sketch

• Minavavana

• Okemos

Michigan Markers

John Okemos

Chief Okemos

The Writings Okemos

• Pontiac
  

Chief Pontiac

American Indians History

Native Heritage Project

Ottawa Chief Pontiac

Chief Pontiac-Ottawa

Genealogy Trails

Biographic

Pontiac and the Indian Uprising, by H.H. Peckham, 1947.

• Shawanese, Jonas.
  Resident of Harbor Springs, Michigan. The first 23 pages consist of a speech pertaining to the Indians of the Cheboygan and Grand Traverse area of Michigan. The paper is supplemented by copies of documents relating to Indian treaties and Indian affairs.
  
• Shaw-shaw-way-nay-beece
  

Wikipedia

• Shoppenagon
  

Hendershot, Robert M. “The Legacy of an Ojibwe ‘Lumber Chief’: David Shoppenagon,
MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 29:2, 41-69.

• Waukazo(o)

Descendants

• Wolfe, Payson

Payson-Wolfe

History Grand Rapids

Wiki Tree

Histories, Culture & Customs

Burt Lake Band

• Burt Lake Indians
  (FRIDAY, Matthew J. “Morality vs. Legality: Michigan’s Burt Lake Indians and the Burning of Indianville,” MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 33:1, 109-123.)
  

  MICHIGAN HISTORY magazine, Jan/Feb 2016 issue has an article “The Burt Lake Burn-Out”  

  by Eric Hemenway. 
 

  MICHIGAN JOURNAL

Miscellaneous

• [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~trotochaud/genealogy/ "That Ignorant Frenchman- Jean Baptiste Trotochaud"

• Onalee Jean CableA short history and description of the Ojibbeway Indians

• The childhood of Ji-shib, the Ojibwa
  
• Ojibwa Texts
  
• Letters on the Mission to the Ojibwa Indians
  
• The Mideẃiwin: Or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
  
• A short history and description of the Ojibbeway Indians
  
• Preliminary survey of the remains of the Chippewa settlements on La Pointe
  
• History of the Ojebway Indians
  
• The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation
  
• Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes
  
• Chippewa Music
  
• Claims Against Certain Chippewa Bands
  
• The Dream Dance of the Chippewa and Menominee Indians
  
• History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
  
• Catholic Encyclopedia
  
• Suggested Reading List: Potawatomi
  
• The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley
  
• Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians
  
• NARRATIVE OF AN Attempt to Establish a Mission Among the Chippewa Indians of Canada
  
• Anishinabe: 6 studies of modern Chippewa
  
• The Indian in Michigan
  
• Memorial of the Chippeway, Pottawatomy and Ottawa Indians
  
• Retracing Detroit's Native American Trails
  
• Cass County
• Village life
  
• Indian Villages, Reservations, and Removal
  
• Clements Library holdings

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW articles

CALLOWAY, Colin G. “The End of an Era: British-Indian Relations in the Great Lakes Region after the War of 1812,” 12:2, 1-20.

CASSIDY, Michelle. “‘The More Noise They Make”: Odawa and Ojibwe Encounters with American Missionaries in Northern Michigan, 1837-1871,” 38:2, 1-34. 

CLIFTON , James A. “ Michigan’s Indians: Tribe, Nation, Estate, Racial, Ethnic, or Special Interest Group?” 20:2, 93-152.

DOHERTY, Robert. “‘We Don’t Want Them To Hold Their Hands Over Our Heads’: The Economic Strategies of the L’Anse Chippewas, 1830-1860,” 20:2, 47-70.

FIXICO, Donald L. “The Alliance of the Three Fires in Trade and War, 1630-1812,” 20:2, 1-23.

GENSER, Wallace. “‘Habitants,’ ‘Half-Breeds,’ and Homeless Children: Transformations in Métis and Yankee-Yorker relations in Early Michigan,” 24:1, 23-28.

GILLS, Bradley J. “Navigating the Landscape of Assimilation: The Anishnabeg, the Lumber Industry, and the Failure of Federal Indian Policy in Michigan, 34:2, 57-74.

GOUGH, Barry. “Michilimackinac and Prairie du Chien: Northern Anchors of British Authority in the War of 1812,” 38:1, 83-105.

GRAY, Susan E. “Limits and Possibilities: White-Indian Relations in Western Michigan in the Era of
Removal,” 20:2, 71-91.

JUNG, Patrick J. “To Extend Fair and Impartial Justice to the Indian: Native Americans and the Additional Court of Michigan Territory, 1823-1836,” 23:2, 25-48.

KARAMANSKI, Theodore J. “State Citizenship as a Tool of Indian Persistence: A Case Study of the Anishinaabeg of Michigan,” 37.2, 119-138.

KERRIGAN, William. “Apples on the Border: Orchards and the Contest for the Great Lakes,” 34:1, 25-41.

LEWIS, G. Malcolm. “First Nations Mapmaking in the Great Lakes Region in Intercultural Contexts: A Historical Review,” 30:2, 1-34.

LEWIS, G. Malcolm. “Intracultural Mapmaking by First Nations Peoples in the Great Lakes Region: A Historical Review,” 32:1, 1-17.

MCCLURKEN, James M. “Ottawa Adaptive Strategies to Indian Removal,” 12:1, 29-55.

MEAD, Rebecca J. "The Kawbawgum Cases: Native Claims and the Discovery of Iron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan." 40:2. 1-32.
MIDDLETON, Richard. “Pontiac: Local Warrior or Pan-Indian Leader?” 32:2, 1-32.
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MUMFORD, Jeremy. “Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27,” 25:1, 1-23.

PEARCE, Margaret Wickens. “The Holes in the Grid: Reservation Surveys in Lower Michigan,” 30:2, 135-165.

PETERS, Bernard C. “Hypocrisy on the Great Lakes Frontier: The Use of Whiskey by the Michigan Department of Indian Affairs,” 18:2, 1-13.

PETERS, Bernard C. “Indian-Grave Robbing at Sault Ste. Marie, 1826,” 23:2, 49-80.

PETERS, Bernard C. “John Johnston’s 1822 Description of the Lake Superior Chippewa,” 20:2, 25-46.

PETERS, Bernard C. “Wa-bish-kee-pe-nas and the Chippewa Reverence for Copper,” 15:2, 47-60.

PFLUG, Melissa A. “Politics of Great Lakes Indian Religion,” 18:2, 15-31.

SCHENCK, Theresa. “Who Owns Sault Ste. Marie?” 28:1, 109-120.

SCHWARTZ, James Z. “Taming the ‘Savagery’ of Michigan’s Indians,” 34:2, 39-55.

SECUNDA, Ben. “The Road to Ruin?: ‘Civilization’ and the Origins of a ‘Michigan road Band’ of Potawatomi,” 34:1, 119-149.

STEVENS, Paul L. “The Indian Diplomacy of Capt. Richard B. Lernoult, British Military Commandant of Detroit, 1774-1775,” 13:1, 47-82.

TANNER, Helen Hornbeck. “Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian Country: The Contributions of Peter Dougherty,” 31:1, 45-92.

TEASDALE, Guillaume. “Old Friends and New Foes: French Settlers and Indians in the Detroit River Border Region,” 38:2, 35-62.

TUCKER, Patrick M. and Laurel E. Heyman. “Welcome to Hard Times: Two French Merchants and Militiamen in the Detroit River Region during the War of 1812,” 38:1, 53-81.

WIDDER, Keith R. “After the Conquest: Michilimackinac, a Borderland in Transition,” 34:1, 43-61.

WIDDER, Keith R. “The 1767 Maps of Robert Rogers and Jonathan Carver: A Proposal for the Establishment of the Colony of Michilimakinac,” 30:2, 35-76.

• WOLF, Payson

Indian Schools

The Office of Indian Affairs (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs) established a network of schools throughout the United States, beginning with Carlisle Indian School, established in 1879. Some of these schools were day schools, usually focusing on children of a single tribe or reservation. Some were boarding schools that served Native American children from a number of tribes and reservations.

In addition, other groups such as various church denominations established schools specifically focusing on American Indian children. (read more...)

The following list of Indian Schools in Michigan has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians, and others.

• Bay Mills School
• Bena School
• Mt. Pleasant Indian School

Language

• Anishinaabemowin
• Bird Nomenclature of the Chippewa Indians
  
• A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language
  
• Native Tech
  
• Dictionary
  
• Native Language
  
• A Cheap and Concise Dictionary of the Ojibway and English Languages: English
  
• A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English: Part I
  
• A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English: Part II
  
• Wikipedia
• Ojebway Language Manual

Lists, Census and Payment Rolls

• Michigan Education Library
  
• Family History
• 1839 mixed-blood list It should be noted that the list with notes are published in - All our relations: Chippewa mixed bloods and the Treaty of 1837, (Theresa M. Schenck).
• 1836 mixed-blood list
• 1842 Mix-bloods
  

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• Sioux and Chippewa Half-breed Scrip
  
• Ziibiwing Center listing
• Lantz, Raymond C. - Ottawa & Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1870-1909.
  “ - Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1855-1868.
  “ - Potawatomi Indians of Michigan, 1843 – 1904.
  
• Government records

Maps

• Facebook Photo
  
• 1996 locations
• Canoe Trade Routes
  
• Fur Trade Routes
• Indian Trails
  
• Archaeological Atlas
• Early Settlement
  
• 200 years ago
  

Military Engagements

Battle of Skull Island

Massacre at Fort Mackinac

• Pontiac's Uprising

Facebook Groups

History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac - History of Pontiac

• Civil War

Company K 1st Michigan Sharpshooters Civil War Veterans
Facebook Groups

General info - Civil War Talk

Civil War Talk Threads

Indians at Brompton

Discussions

Civil War Vet

Vets

• Articles
  

“The Bravery of Company K”, by Elizabeth Edwards, in TRAVERSE, Northern Michigan’s Magazine, Feb. 2003, p.50.

“The Chippewa Sharpshooters of Company K”, by Ted Alexander, in CIVIL WAR, Sep-Oct 1992, p.24.

“Unlike the Apache, Michigan’s Ottawa Indians chose to fight for the American government, not against it” (editorial R.M.), AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR, Jul 1996, p.6.

“Into the Abyss”, by Laurence M. Hauptman, in CIVIL WAT TIMES, Feb. 1997, p.47.

"Crack Shots: Michigan's Indian Marksmen Were a Constant Terror for Southern Soldiers", by Brian King, in AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR, May 2016, p.32.

FamilySearch Library

Michigan Superintendency of Indian Affairs 1814-1851. FS Library film 1604649 (first of 71 films)

Northern Superintendency 1851-1876. M1166 FS Library film 1490921 (first of 35 films)

Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1855-1868. by Raymond Clyde Lantz. FS Library Book 970.3 Ot8L[http://www.worldcat.org/title/ottawa-and-chi Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1870-1909. by Raymond Clyde Lantz. FS Catalog book 970.1 L196oWorldCat

FamilySearch Catalog Michigan Native Races

Queries: Messages Boards & Mailing Lists

• Native American > Intertribal > Michigan
  
• Native American > Nations > Chippewa / Ojibwe > Chippewa / Ojibwe
  
• Native American > Nations > Metis > Metis
  
• [ottawa.ottawanat/ Native American > Nations > Ottawa > Ottawa]
  
• Ethnic-Native: NISHNAWBE Mailing List
  
• Ethnic-Native: NAOTTAWA Mailing List
  
• Ethnic-Native: THREE-FIRES Mailing List
  
• Native American Access Genealogy
  
• Michigan Native American Ancestry

Reservations

From the mid-1800s, the official policy of the United States government toward the American Indian was to confine each tribe to a specific parcel of land called a reservation. Agencies were established on or near each reservation. A government representative, usually called an agent (or superintendent) was assigned to each agency. Their duties included maintaining the peace, making payments to the Native Americans based on the stipulations of the treaties with each tribe, and providing a means of communication between the native population and the federal government.

Sometimes, a single agency had jurisdiction over more than one reservation. And sometimes, if the tribal population and land area required it, an agency may have included sub-agencies.

The boundaries of reservations, over time, have changed. Usually, that means the reservations have been reduced in size. Sometimes, especially during the later policy of "termination," the official status of reservations was ended altogether.

For a current reservation map -Michigan – Indian Reservations- The National Atlas of the United States of America. Federal Lands and Indian Reservations. by the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Geological Survey.

The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America, and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.

• Bay Mills Reservation: Federal, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe: Chippewa
• Chippewa Reservation:
• Grand Traverse Reservation: State, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe: Chippewa and Ottawa
• Hannahville Community: Federal, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe: Potawatomi
• Huron Potawatomi Reservation: Federal recognized,Tribe Potawatomi
• Isabella (Saginaw) Reservation: Federal, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe: Saginaw Chippewa
• L'Anse (Keweenaw Bay) Reservation: Federal, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe: Lake Supior Band Chippeewa
• Little River Reservation
• Little Traverse Bay Bands Reservation
• Michigan Reservation: 1837-1848
• Ontonagon Reservation: State,1854
• Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
• Sault Ste. Marie Reservation: State, under jurisdiction of Michigan Agency, Tribe:

See Also

Michigan History -- for a calendar giving important dates pertaining to Indians

Michigan Military -- for a list of forts

Hanksville

Metis -

• Wikipedia
  
• French and Indian Descendants
  

Books -

• Metis families: a genealogical compendium, (Gail Morin) [Primarily western Canadian Plains families, but some have origins back in Michigan & Quebec], 2 vls.
• The Wisconsin creoles, (Les Rentmeester)
• The People who own themselves: aboriginal ethnogenesis in a Canadian family. 1660-1900 [Desjarlais family], (Heather Divine).
  
• All our relations: Chippewa mixed bloods and the Treaty of 1837, (Theresa M. Schenck).

Great Lakes Flora and Fauna

Treaties

• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, ETC., 1808
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, 1819
  
• TREATY WITH THE OTTAWA AND CHIPPEWA, 1820
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, 1837 Jan. 14, 1837
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, 1837 Dec. 20, 1837
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, 1838
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA, 1839
  
• TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA OF SAGINAW, ETC., 1855
  
• TREATY WITH THE POTAWATOMI, 1826
  
• Native American Treaties: Their Ongoing Importance to Michigan Residents
  
• Saginaw, Swan Creek & Black River Chippewa

References

Bibliography

• Clarke Historical Library, Native American Material. This library has a great deal of information about Native Americans, especially in Michigan. Some of the material is available online. Be sure to use the list on the left side to find materials.
  
• "Accompanying Pamphlet for Microcopy 1011", National Archives Microfilm Publications, Appendix.
• American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.
• Blackbird, Andrew J., History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians - History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
  
• Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981.
• Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches. New York, New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.
• Historical Sketches for Jurisdictional and Subject Headings Used for the Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880. National Archives Microcopy T1105.
• Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907. Available online.
• Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.
• National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.
• Preliminary Inventory No. 163: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Services. Available online
• Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.

Anishnawbe Genealogy Research – comp. by James P. LaLone, rev. Apr. 2013

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Baraga, Frederick - Chippewa Indians as Recorded by Rev. Frederick Baraga in 1847.
Baraga, Frederick – A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English. (available through Google books)
Barce, Elmore – The Land of the Potawatomi (Google book).
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Bellfy, Phil – Three Fires Unity. The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands.
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Buechner, Cecilia Bain – The Pokagons.
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Diedrich, Mark – Ojibway Chiefs: Portraits of Anishinaabe Leadership.
Dinsmore, Dorothy Stott & Anne M. Hallock - Indian Dave's Travels: a Colorful Character.
Dowd, James – Built Like a Bear, Shabni (He Has Pawed Through).
Edmunds, R. David - Kinsmen Through Time: an Annotated Bibliography of Potawatomi History.
Edmunds, R. David - The Potawatomi, Keepers of the Fire.
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Gruett, Phillip - Indian Family History (1868). Unpublished mss. (now online)
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