Field Office Records.

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Field Office Records.

There are records for the periods indicated for the following superintendencies: Arizona, 1863-73, Dakota, 1860-78, Idaho, 1863-70, Minnesota, 1849-56, Montana, 1867-79, Nevada, 1869-70, New Mexico, 1849-74, Northern, 1851-76, Oregon, 1848-78, Utah, 1855-70, Washington, 1853-74, Wisconsin, 1836-48, and Wyoming, 1870. Field records of the Central Superintendency, 1813-78, include materials for its predecessor, the Western Superintendency, and some of the Arkansas Superintendency, and the Wichita Agency, which were established by the Confederacy during the Civil War. Records of the Michigan Superintendency, the Mackinac Agency, and the Sault St. Marie Agency and Subagency, 1814-85, are filed together. There are field records for the following agencies: Cherokee, East, 1798-1838, Cherokee, West, 1816-19, Chickasaw, 1812-16, Choctaw, East, 1817-21, Consolidated Chippewa, 1913-35, Creek, East, 1794-1818, Green Bay Subagency, 1850, Leech Lake, 1889-1922, Malheur, 1875-82, Moqui Pueblo, 1875-83, Nett Lake, 1908-17, New York, 1938-49, Southern Apache, 1871-78, Union, 1867-1911, and White Earch, 1875-1922. Among the White Earth Agency records are the records of the Chippewa Commission of 1889, established to negotiate with the Chippewa in Minnesota for the cession and relinquishment of certain reservations and the reduction in size of the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations.

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