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 === 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'''.
+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:<br>
+*[[American Indian Allotment Records|Allotment records]]
+*[[American Indian Annuity Rolls|Annuity rolls]]
+*[[American Indian Census Rolls|Census records]]
+*[[American Indian Correspondence and Reports|Correspondence]]
+*[[American Indian Health Records|Health records]]
+*[[American Indian Correspondence and Reports|Reports]]
+*[[American Indian School Records|School census and records]]
+*[[American Indian Vital Records Supplements in Census Rolls|Vital records]]
 Some of the [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/075.html#75.19.123 textual records] of the Umatilla Agency have been transferred to the [http://www.archives.gov/pacific-alaska/seattle/index.html Pacific Alaska Regional Archives] of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Seattle. Among their many administrative files are the following records which may be of particular interest to family historians:
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 The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Cayuse Indians living on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Umatilla Agency, as well as many pages of [[Indian Population Schedules -- 1900 United States Census|Indian Population Schedules]] for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 182, Reservation Precinct, in Umatilla County, Oregon.
-==== Records Available through the Family History Library ====
+==== Records Available through the Family History Library  ====
 '''Vital Records''' from Indian Census Rolls - above
 *Birth and Death records 1924-1932 FHL film 583080
 *Microfilm copies of[[Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports (BIA), 1907-1938|''...Narrative and Statistical Reports...'']] for the Umatilla Agency, 1907-1938, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, rolls 159-160, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and their family history centers (their {{FHL|479404|title-id|disp=microfilm roll numbers 1724377-1724378}}).
 *Umatilla Agency Records 1889-1932. FHL film: 1024205