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Brief narratives give the history of the office that created or accumulated the records as well as the type, scope, and organization of the records themselves. In several cases, the narrative has been omitted because the publication titles are self-explanatory and the publication consists of only a single roll of microfilm. In other cases, narratives are used sparingly because the records on microfilm cover a broad range of subjects, only a few of which relate directly to American Indians. For such microfilm publications, only the rolls dealing primarily with Indian subjects are listed. However, when a microfilm publication relating to Indians and other subjects contains only a few rolls, all the rolls are listed. Rolls of microfilm may be purchased individually.

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For more complete information on the subject, see Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians, compiled by Edward E. Hill (1981), which is for sale from Publications Distribution (NECD), Room G9, National Archives, Seventh and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408. The Guide provides a comprehensive review and description of NARA records, including those on microfilm, that are concerned with American Indians and their relations to the American government and the people of the United States. Indians who lived along the international boundaries of Canada and Mexico and in former colonies of European nations and who had direct contacts with, and were a matter of domestic concern to the United States, are within the scope of the Guide. The Guide does not include information about Indians in other parts of the Americas with whom the United States may have had more remote concern in the conduct of foreign affairs or who were the subject of a survey or study.

The records listed in this catalog are from the following record groups:

11 General Records of the United States Government

22 Records of the Fish and Wildlife Service

29 Records of the Bureau of the Census

45 Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and

Library

48 Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior

56 General Records of the Department of the Treasury

57 Records of the Geological Survey

59 General Records of the Department of State

75 Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

93 War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records

94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917

107 Records of the Office of the Secretary of War

108 Records of the Headquarters of the Army

109 War Department Collection of Confederate Records

123 Records of the United States Court of Claims

153 Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army)

267 Records of the United States Supreme Court

360 Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and

the Constitutional Convention

393 Records of United States Army Continental Commands,

1821-1920

This catalog revision was compiled by Cynthia G. Fox, with assistance from Robert H. Gruber, Robert M. Kvasnicka, Geraldine N. Phillips, Carmelita S. Ryan, and Edward E. Hill. The principal editor was Constance Potter. Mary C. Ryan and Mary Frances Morrow prepared this most recent revision.

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AMERICAN INDIANS:A SELECT CATALOG OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS
(PART 2)

National Archives Trust Fund Board
National Archives and Records Administration
Washington, DC
1984 (Revised 1995)

CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS

RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS (RECORD GROUP 75)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, usually known as the Office of Indian Affairs, was established as a separate agency within the War Department in 1824. Congress established the position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1832. The Office of Indian Affairs was transferred in 1849 to the newly created Department of the Interior, where it has remained. In 1947 the Office of Indian Affairs was renamed the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Records of the Superintendent of Indian Trade

By 1795 the United States government had begun operating factories, or posts, to trade with the Indians, and in 1806, the Office of Indian Trade was formally established.

Letters Sent, 1807-1823. M16. 6 rolls.

This publication includes handwritten copies of the outgoing correspondence of the Superintendents of Indian Trade with the Secretary of War, factors and other representatives of the Office of Indian Trade, Indian agents, the Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury officials, the President, merchants, manufacturers, bankers, and others. The letters relate to the purchase of goods for the factories, the disposal of furs and other commodities received from the factories, the operation of the factories, annuity payments, accounts, and appointments as well as to Indian trade and Indian affairs in general. Each volume is arranged chronologically, but there is some overlapping between volumes. Each volume is indexed by name of addressee.

1 Oct. 31, 1807-May 27, 1809

2 June 1, 1809-June 20, 1812

3 June 26, 1812-Apr. 18, 1816

4 Apr. 12. 1816-Apr. 11, 1818

5 Mar. 31, l818-July 20, 1820

6 July 11, 1820-Apr. 18, 1823

Letters Received, 1800-1824. T58. 1 roll.

This series consists mainly of correspondence received by the Superintendents of Indian Trade. Included are incoming correspondence of the transportation agent and, after the closing of the Office of Indian Trade, of the principal agent for the liquidation of the factories. There are letters from factors, purchasing and transportation agents, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, merchants, members of missionary societies, and others interested in Indian trade or Indians generally. Also included are some drafts of outgoing correspondence, memorandums, and accounting records. For the most part, the letters are arranged chronologically, although sometimes letters received from one person during a calendar year are grouped together.

Letterbook, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. M142. 1 roll.

Records of the Creek Trading House, 1795-1816. M4. 1 roll.

Records of the Creek Factory of the Office of Indian Trade of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1795-1821. M1334. 13 rolls.

The factory for the Creek Indians was one of the two original factories established in November 1795. It was not usually called the Creek factory. Sometimes it was referred to as the Georgia factory, but it was better known by the names of its successive locations: Colerian on the St. Mary's River, 1795-97; Fort Wilkinson, 1797-1806; Ocmulgee Old Fields, 1806-09; Fort Hawkins, 1809-16; and Fort Mitchell, 1816-20.

The records have been filmed in the same order as they have been described in the preliminary inventory of the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as entries 42 through 53, with the exception of one series of records (entry 43), which has been previously microfilmed by the National Archives as M4, Letters Sent, Records of the Creek Trading House, 1795-1816, and has not been refilmed in this publication.