00588 UNITED STATES. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS An Inventory of Selected Bureau Files Regarding Minnesota Chippewa Agencies at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Bonnie B. Palmquist Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Dennis Meissner July 15, 2004Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Selected files regarding Minnesota Chippewa agencies. 1890-1939. Photocopied records selected from files in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, gathered together by a researcher for a doctoral dissertation on White Earth Reservation (Minn.) Indian claims. They include White Earth Agency central files (1890-1937), Chippewa Commission correspondence and biweekly reports (1894-1900), Consolidated Chippewa Agency files (1922-1939), Red Lake Agency central files (1909-1939), Chippewa logging files (1903-1924), and some financial records from the Leech Lake (1902-1908) and White Earth (1908-1921) agencies. 2.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The White Earth, Red Lake, and Consolidated Chippewa agency files pertain to land claims, buildings and equipment (schools and hospitals), education, employment and training for Indians, relief work, investigations and inspections, and council decisions. Chippewa logging files include annual reports and also concern land claims and sales, logging activity, and land selections for national forests. Chippewa Commission files contain correspondence and biweekly reports from the Minnesota commissioners to the Bureau, and correspondence with various other Ojibwe agents.

The files in this collection were selected by the researcher from several related series in the custody of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which were called "classified files."

OTHER FINDING AIDS

An inventory that provides additional information about this collection is available in the repository; filed in ALPHA notebooks under the heading: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Selected files regarding Minnesota Chippewa agencies.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Indians of North America -- Minnesota. Logging -- Minnesota. Ojibwa Indians -- Education. Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations -- 1869-1934. Ojibwa Indians -- Land tenure. Ojibwa Indians -- Reservations. Organizations: United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Consolidated Chippewa Agency. United States Chippewa Commission. Places: Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.). White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.). Chippewa National Forest (Minn.). Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- Appropriations and expenditures. Superior National Forest (Minn.). ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Selected Files Regarding Minnesota Chippewa Agencies. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,188

Processing Information:

Processed by: Bonnie B. Palmquist, October 1991

Catalog ID number: 2916934

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 152.H.13.10F 1 White Earth Agency Central Files: Annuities, 1922. Authorities, 1914-1918. Buildings, 1916. Charges against employees, 1921. Complaints, 1915-1918. 2 folders. Contracts and public schools, 1916-1922. Destitute persons, 1922. Employment for Indians, 1912. 2 folders. Farming and stock raising, 1913. Funds from logging, 1908. Funds, 1910-1921. Hospital, 1912. Industrial training, 1921. Industries, 1916. Investigation and inspection reports, 1890-1937. 10 folders. Issues, Miscellaneous, 1910-1917. Lands, 1910, 1914, 1937. Missions, etc., 1914. Officers and employees, 1911. Payments to Indians, 1907, 1911. Public lands, 1908. Removal of restrictions, 1912. Sales, 1914. Schools (reservation, dry, and boarding), 1912-1917. Surveys and appraisements, 1908-1914. Tribal lands, 1910-1911, 1921. Trust funds, 1912-1917. Water supply, 1908-1914. Chippewa Commission correspondence, 1894-1900. 20 folders.

Letters and biweekly reports of the commissioners to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.), as well as correspondence with other Chippewa agents and various other correspondents. The copies are often illegible. Topics include all aspects of reservation life. Principal correspondents are W. M. Campbell (July-Nov. 1894), Benjamin D. Williams (Dec. 1894-Jan. 1895), M. R. Baldwin (Feb. 1895-Aug. 1897), and D. S. Hall (Sept. 1897-1900).

152.H.14.1B 2 Financial Records: Leech Lake Agency financial record book, January 1, 1902-August 6, 1908. 4 folders. White Earth Agency expenditures, 1908-1921. 2 folders. White Earth Agency purchases and supplies, 1911-1915. Red Lake Agency Central Files: Authorities, 1915. Bridges and roads, 1916. Buildings, 1911-1928. Charges against employees, 1925. Destitute persons, indigent Indians, 1922, 1931. Education, 1936. Equipment, 1912, 1923. Hospitals, 1909-1915. Insurance on buildings, 1911-1928. Investigation and inspection reports, 1913-1937. 3 folders. Issues, Miscellaneous, 1918-1921. Relief work, institutions, welfare clinics, 1909, 1934-1939. Trespasses or settlement on tribal lands, 1924. Chippewa Logging Files: Annual reports, 1903-1915. Approved office recommendations, 1903. Complaint of White Earth Indians, 1911-1912. Cooper Island, 1911. Custodians of forest reserve land, 1914-1907. 2 folders. Examination of White Earth timber, 1911-1912. Inspections of timber cuitting, 1905. Logging operations, 1921-1924. Minnesota national forests, 1903-1922. 6 folders. Pigeon River lands, 1904-1905. Re-examination of Chippewa agriculture lands, 1924. Report of F. B. Walker, 1904. Reports: Inspections, 1903-1912. Sale of timber by forestry; scaling timber, 1917-1918. Scale bills, 1906, 1913. Selections of land for Chippewa National Forest, 1903. Summer logging, 1904. Supervision of scalers, 1905. Unsold timber, 1909-1913. 2 folders. Consolidated Chippewa Agency Central Files: Bridges and roads, 1922-1925. Buildings, Insurance on, 1923. Contract and public schools, 1922-1933. Council: Acts of tribunal councils, 1927-1939. 3 folders. Education, 1933, 1936. Forest reserves, 1923, 1934. Hospitals, 1922-1934. Investigation and inspection reports, 1929-1933. 2 folders. Relief work, institutions, welfare clinics, 1935-1939. Schools: Reservation and day, 1924-1926.