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Southern Navajo Indian Agency (Arizona)
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History
The Southern Navajo Agency is another name for the Fort Defiance Agency. It operated under the Southern Navajo name for a few years in the mid-1900s.
Records
Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Southern Navajo Agency, 1927-1935, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 141[1], available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their microfilm number 1724359).
Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1930 thru 1935. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 518 thru 531[2]. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their microfilm numbers 581893-581906). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.
See also Navajo Agency and Fort Defiance Agency for a listing of other records pertaining to this agency.
References
- ↑ American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998, Micropcopy M1011, p. 27.
- ↑ American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998, Microcopy M595, p. 51.
- American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.
- 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.
- Preliminary Inventory No. 163: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Services. Available online
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