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== Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency == | == Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency == | ||
Winnebago, Sioux, Chippewa, Omaha, Ponca | Winnebago, Sioux, Chippewa, Omaha, Ponca | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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The Agency for the Winnebago Indians was originally called the Prairie du Chien Agency. | The Agency for the Winnebago Indians was originally called the Prairie du Chien Agency. | ||
A special agent was appointed in 1864 for the Winnebago and Potawatomi Indians who had gone to Wisconsin to avoid moving to the Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota Territory. This special agency was located at Plover in Portage County until 1869 and then moved to Necedah and then to New Lisbon, in Juneau County. It was abolished in 1870. Most of the Winnebago Indians settled at the Winnebago Reservation in eastern Nebraska, where the [[Winnebago Indian Agency (Nebraska)|Winnebago Agency]] had moved in 1865. | A special agent was appointed in 1864 for the Winnebago and Potawatomi Indians who had gone to Wisconsin to avoid moving to the Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota Territory. This special agency was located at Plover in Portage County until 1869 and then moved to Necedah and then to New Lisbon, in Juneau County. It was abolished in 1870. Most of the Winnebago Indians settled at the Winnebago Reservation in eastern Nebraska, where the [[Winnebago Indian Agency (Nebraska)|Winnebago Agency]] had moved in 1865.<ref>Hill, Edward E. ''The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches''. New York, New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, Inc., 1974, pp. 205-208.</ref> | ||
== Records == | == Records == | ||
Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the several Winnebago Agencies, 1826-1875, have been microfilmed by the [http://www.archives.gov/ National Archives] as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 931-947. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?first=1000&display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=403528&disp=Letters%2Breceived%252C%2B1824%252D1881%253B%2Bregis%2B%2B&last=1099&columns=*%2C0%2C0 microfilm roll numbers 1661661 thru 1661677]. | Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the several Winnebago Agencies, 1826-1875, have been microfilmed by the [http://www.archives.gov/ National Archives] as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Rolls 931-947.<ref>''American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications''. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998, Microcopy M2343, p. 8.</ref> Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers on their [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?first=1000&display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=403528&disp=Letters%2Breceived%252C%2B1824%252D1881%253B%2Bregis%2B%2B&last=1099&columns=*%2C0%2C0 microfilm roll numbers 1661661 thru 1661677]. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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*''American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications''. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.<br> | *''American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications''. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.<br> | ||