Montana Superintendency of Indian Affairs

History
The California Superintendency of Indian Affairs was established in. After the Superintendency was abolished in

Agencies
The records of the Montana Superintendency relate to most aspects of Indian affairs in its area, including negotiation and enforcement of treaties, Indian migration and subsistence, removal of Indians, annuity and other payments to Indians, location of agencies, traders and licenses, suppression of liquor traffic, hostilities and military operations, depredation claims, construction and repair of buildings, purchase and trasnportation of goods and supplies, employees, and accounts.

Agencies in the correspondence and tribes served by them were the Blackfeet Agency for Blackfoot, Piegan, Blood (Kainah), and Grosventre Indians; Flathead Agency for the Flathead, Upper Pend d'Oreilles, and Kutenai Indians; Crow Agency for Crow Indians; Milk River Agency for Grosventre and Assiniboin Indians but aiding to some extent Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshoni, Santee, Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Indians; Lemhi Agency for Bannock, Shoshoni, and Tukuarika Indians.