Fort Peck Indian Agency

The Fort Peck Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is located near Wolf Point, Montana.

Old Fort Peck Agency building, Poplar, Montana

History

The agency is responsible for 12,000 Assiniboine and Sioux enrolled tribal members and the reservation contains about 2,094,000 acres of land within its exterior boundary. There are about 939,165 acres of tribal and allotted surface trust acreage that includes Turtle Mountain Public Domain lands.^[1]

Agents

• On September 1, 1882, N. S. Porter (Fort Peck Indian Agent) submitted his fourth annual report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.^[2]
• On August 10, 1883, George W. Wilkinson (U.S. Indian Agent for Fort Peck) submitted his first annual report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.^[3]

Superintendents

• Charles B. Lohmiller 1904 to 1917 ^[4][5]

References

1. "Fort Peck Agency". Bureau of Indian Affairs. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
2. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1882). Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 108–.
3. United States. Dept. of the Interior (1883). Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 161–.
4. Kinnell, Susan K. (1986). Military history of the United States. Abc-Clio. ISBN 978-0-87436-474-3. Major Charles B. Lohmiller, known as Hum-Pa-Zee (Sioux for "Yellow Shoes") served at the Fort Peck Indian Agency, Montana, during 1893-1917, and was Superintendent during 1904-17. Reveals Lohmiller as a man with an unapproachable, ...
5. Kenneth D. Shields Jr. (1998). Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4827-8. Horses Ghost was another one of the Sioux leaders who accompanied Major Charles B. Lohmiller