Ponca Indian Agency (Oklahoma)

Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency
Ponca, Tonkawa, Oto and Missouri

History
The Ponca Agency was established in 1859 for the Ponca Indians In Nebraska. When the bulk of the Ponca Indians moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1877, they were merged into a single agency called the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency. From 1882 to 1885, the agency serving the Ponca Indians was called the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency and from 1885 to 1901, it was called the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency.

Between 1901 and 1904, separate Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agencies were reestablished.

In 1912, the Kaw Agency which had been established in 1904, was merged with the Ponca Agency. In 1919, the Otoe and Ponca Agencies were merged with the Pawnee Agency.

In 1921, the Ponca Agency was reestablished for the Ponca, Tonkawa, and the Oto and Missouri Indians. The Ponca Agency was permanently merged with the Pawnee Agency in 1927. . The Ponca Agency continued to operate as a subagency under the Pawnee Agency.

Records
Some records for the Ponca Agency and Subagency are in the Southwest Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Fort Worth and in the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City, including;


 * Register of births and deaths, 1895-1910
 * Census rolls, 1904-1918.
 * Allotment records, 1919-1927
 * And other administrative and fiscal records, 1880-1943

Microfilm copies of ...Narrative and Statistical Reports... for the Otoe Agency, 1907-1919, are included in National Archives Microcopy M1011, Roll 97, available in the National Archives system and in the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (their microfilm number 1724315).

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1906-1910, 1912, and 1915 thru 1919. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, roll 329. 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 roll number 579739). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.