Ancestry – US Indian Census Schedules 1885-1940

Indian Census Records will provide answers to many questions about your ancestry.  The database provided by Ancestry.com lists:

• Name (Indian and or English
• Gender
• Age
• Birth date
• Relationship to head of family
• Marital Status
• Tribe name
• Agency and reservation name

Images by Jurisdiction, from Ancestry.com:

• Clallam, Lummi, Muckleshoot, Nooksak, Suquamish, Puyallup, Skagit, Swinomish, Snohomish Indians
• Laguna Pueblo
• Lower Yanktonai Sioux and Lower Brule Sioux Indians
• Lower Yanktonai Sioux Indians
• Lummi, Muckleshoot, Port Madison, Swinomish, Tulalip, and Clallam Indians For 1912
• Lummi, Port Madison, Swinomish, and Tulalip Reservations
• Navajo, Hopi, and Paiute Indians
• Omaha, Ponca, Santee, and Winnebago Indians
• Paiute and Other Indians
• Paiute, Monache, Shoshoni, and Washo Indians
• Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mohave-Apache Indians of Ftmcdowell, Gila River, Maricopa, and Salt River
• Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, and Camp Verde Apache Indians
• Warm Springs and Other Indians
• Warm Springs, Paiute, and Other Indians
• Absentee Shawnee, Mexican Kickapoo, and Citizen Potawatomi Indians
• Absentee Shawnee, Mexican Kickapoo, Citizen Potawatomi Iowa, and Sauk and Fox Indians
• Albuquerque School (Pueblo and Navajo Indians)
• Apache and Mohave Indians
• Apache Indians
• Apache Indians of The Camp Verde Reservation
• Bad River and Red Cliff Chippewa Indians
• Bad River Chippewa Indians
• Bad River, Bois Fort, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau Indians
• Bad River, Bois Fort, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau, Chippewa
• Bad River, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau, Red Cliff Indians
• Bay Mills School (Chippewa Indians)
• Birch Cooley Agency (Mdewakanton Sioux Indians)
• Bishop Agency (Paiute and Other Indians)
• Blackfeet Agency
• Bloomfield Seminary
• Bois Forte, Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, and White Oak Point Reservations
• Bois Forte, Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Mille Lac, White Oak Point Res
• Brule Sioux Indians
• California Special
• Camp McDowell
• Camp Verde (Apache-Mojave Indians)
• Campo (Mission Indians)
• Canton Asylum
• Cantonment (Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians)
• Carlisle School
• Carson (Chiefly Paiute, Shoshoni, and Washo Indians)
• Carter (Potawatomi Indians)
• Cayuse, Umatilla, Wallawalla, and Other Indians
• Chehalis, Clallam OR Sklallam, Nisqualli, Puyallup, Quinaielt, Skokomish, Squaxon and Other Indians
• Chehalis, Makah, Nisqually, Ozette, Quinaielt, Skokomish and Squaxin Island Reservations
• Chehalis, Nisqualli, Quileute, Quinaielt, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Indians
• Chehalis, Nisqually, Quinaielt, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Reservations
• Cherokee (North Carolina)
• Cheyenne and Arapahoe
• Cheyenne River (Sioux Indians)
• Chippewa Indians
• Choctaw (Mississippi)
• Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, and Kutenai Indians
• Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Nez Perce Indians
• Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Spokan Indians
• Colorado River: (Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Walapai Indians)
• Colville and Spokane Reservations
• Colville, Spokan, Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Lake, Nespelem, Okanagon, Nez Perce, Moses, Columbia
• Colville, Spokan, Coeur Dalene, Lake, Nespelem, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Nez Perce, Moses, Columbia
• Concow, Little Lake, Redwood, Pit River, Nomelaki, Yuki, Wailaki, and Other Indians
• Concow, Little Lake, Redwood, Pit River, Potter Valley, Yuki, Wailaki, and Nomelaki Indians
• Consolidated Chippewa
• Consolidated Ute
• Crow
• Crow Creek (Lower Yanktonai Sioux and Lower Brule Sioux Indians)
• Devils Lake (Sioux and Chippewa Indians)
• Devils Lake Sioux Indians
• Digger
• Eastern Navajo
• Eastern Navajo Reservation
• Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca and Wyandot Indians
• Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians
• Fallon (Paiute Indians)
• Flandreau
• Flathead
• Flathead, Kutenai, Pend D,Oreille, Kalispel, and Spokan Indians
• Flathead: (Flathead, Kutenai, Pend Doreille, and Kalispel Indians)
• Fond Du Lac
• Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, and Nett Lake (Bois Forte) Sub-agencies
• Fort Apache (White Mountain Apache Indians)
• Fort Belknap (Grosventre and Assiniboin Indians)
• Fort Berthold (Arikara, Grosventre, and Mandan Indians)
• Fort Bidwell (Paiute, Pit River, and Digger Indians)
• Fort Hall (Shoshoni and Bannock Indians)
• Fort Lapwai (Nez Perce Indians)
• Fort Lewis (Southern Ute Indians)
• Fort McDermitt (Paiute Indians)
• Fort Mojave (Mohave and Chemehuevi Indians)
• Fort Peck (Sioux and Assiniboin Indians)
• Fort Shaw School
• Fort Totten (Devils Lake Sioux and Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians)
• Fort Yuma (Yuma and Cocopa(H) Indians)
• Goshute (Goshute, Shoshoni, Paiute, Kanosh, and Pahvant Indians)
• Grand Portage (Chippewa Indians)
• Grand Rapids (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin)
• Grand Ronde
• Great Lakes (Chippewa and Potawatomi Indians)
• Great Sioux Reservation
• Green Bay (Menominee, Oneida, and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians)
• Greenville (Digger and Other Indians)
• Haskell (Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Iowa, and Sauk and Fox Indians)
• Havasupai
• Hayward (Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa Indians)
• Hoopa Valley: (Hupa OR Hoopa and Klamath Indians)
• Hopi
• Hopi and Navajo Indians
• Hualapai (Walapai OR Hualapai and Havasupai Indians)
• Hualapai OR Walapai Indians–Total Only
• Hupa OR Hoopa, Klamath, and Other Indians
• Indians of Fort Bidwell, Round Valley, and Tule River Reservations and of Modoc County
• Indians of Fort Bidwell, Round Valley, and Tule River Reservations, and Public Domain Indians
• Jicarilla
• Jicarilla Apache Indians
• Kaibab (Paiute and Goshute Indians)
• Kansa OR Kaw, Oto and Missouri, Pawnee, and Ponca Indians
• Kansa OR Kaw, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa Indians
• Kaw
• Keshena (Menominee Indians)
• Keshena: (Menominee and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians)
• Kickapoo (Kickapoo, Iowa, and Sauk and Fox of The Missouri Indians; Potawatomi Indians For 1920)
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Caddo, and Wichita Indians
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo, and Delaware Indians
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians, and Apache Prisoners of War
• Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians, and Apache Prisoners of War OR Fort Sill Apache
• Kiowa: (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Caddo, and Wichita and Affiliated Indians)
• Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Band of Paiute OR Snake Indians
• Klamath, Modoc, Paiute, and Other Indians
• Klamath: (Klamath, Modoc, Paiute OR Snake, and Pit River Indians)
• Lac Du Flambeau, Bad River, and Red Cliff Chippewa Indians, and Potawatomi Indians
• Lac Du Flambeau, Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff Chippewa Indians, and Potawatomi Indians
• Lac Du Flambeau: (Chippewa Indians)
• Leech Lake (Chippewa Indians)
• Lemhi (Shoshoni, Bannock, and Sheepeater Indians)
• Leupp (Navajo Indians)
• Leupp Reservation
• Lovelocks (Paiute Indians)
• Lower Brule
• MacKinac (Chippewa Indians)
• Makah, Ozette, and Hoh Indians
• Malki
• Menominee and Oneida Indians
• Menominee and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians
• Menominee and Stockbridge Indians
• Mescalero
• Mexican Kickapoo (Mexican Kickapoo and Big Jim Band of Absentee Shawnee Indians)
• Mission
• Mission Tule River
• Moapa River (Paiute Indians)
• Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Other Indians
• Mohave, Chemehuevi, Cocopa, Yuma, and Other Indians
• Moqui
• Navajo
• Navajo Springs
• Navajo: (Moqui Pueblo, OR Hopi, and Navajo Indians)
• Neah Bay (Makah, Ozette, Quileute, and Hoh Indians)
• Nett Lake (Bois Fort Band of Chippewa Indians)
• Nevada (Paiute Indians)
• New York
• Nez Percé
• Nisqually and Skokomish (Puyallup, Skokomish, Nisqualli, Squaxon, Sklallam, and Chehalis Indians)
• Northern Idaho (Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Nez Perce Indians)
• Northern Navajo
• Northern Navajo Reservation
• Northern Pueblo
• Oglala Sioux Indians
• Omaha
• Omaha (Omaha and Winnebago Indians)
• Omaha and Winnebago Indians
• Oneida
• Osage
• Osage and Kansa OR Kaw Indians
• Osage: (Osage, Kansa OR Kaw, and Quapaw Indians)
• Otoe (Oto and Missouri Indians)
• Paiute (Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Indians)
• Paiute and Ute Indians
• Pala (Mission Indians)
• Pawnee
• Pima, Apache, and Mohave-Apache Indians of The Camp Verde, Fort McDowell, and Salt River Res
• Pima, Papago, and Maricopa Indians of The Gila River, AK Chin, and Gila Bend Reservations
• Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mohave-Apache Indians of Ft McDowell, Gila River, Maricopa, Salt River Res
• Pima: Pima, Papago, and Maricopa Indians
• Pine Ridge
• Pine Ridge (Sioux and Cheyenne Indians)
• Pipestone (Mdewakanton Sioux Indians)
• Ponca (Ponca, Oto and Missouri, Pawnee, and Tonkawa Indians)
• Ponca and Santee and Yankton Sioux Indians
• Ponca and Tonkawa Indians
• Ponca, Tonkawa, and Kansa OR Kaw Indians
• Ponca, Tonkawa, and Oto and Missouri Indians
• Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, and Sauk and Fox Indians
• Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, Sauk and Fox of The Missouri, and Chippewa and Christian/Munsee Indians)
• Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians
• Pueblo Bonito (Navajo Indians)
• Pueblo Day Schools (Pueblo and Navajo Indians)
• Pueblo Indians
• Pueblo:
• Pyramid Lake (Paiute Indians)
• Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
• Quinault (Quinaielt and Other Indians)
• Red Cliff (Chippewa Indians)
• Red Lake (Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa Indians)
• Red Lake and Pembina, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Bois Fort, Vermillion Lake, and Deer Creek Chippewa
• Red Moon (Cheyenne Indians)
• Reno (Paiute Indians)
• Rocky Boy
• Rosebud and Yankton Sioux Indians
• Rosebud: (Brule and Other Bands of Sioux Indians)
• Roseburg (Shasta, Klamath, Pit River, Wintu, and Other Indians) Round Valley
• Sac and Fox, Iowa
• Salem (Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz Reservations and Non-reservation Indians)
• Salt Lake Special (Paiute Indians)
• Salt River (Camp McDowell, Lehi, and Salt River Indians)
• San Carlos (Apache, Mohave, and Yuma Indians)
• San Jacinto (Mission and Other Indians)
• San Juan (Navajo Indians)
• San Xavier (Papago Indians)
• Santa Fe (Pueblo Indians)
• Santee Sioux and Ponca Indians
• Santee: (Santee and Flandreau Sioux and Ponca Indians)
• Sauk and Fox and Iowa Indians
• Sauk and Fox, Iowa, Citizen Potawatomi, Absentee Shawnee and Mexican Kickapoo Indians
• Sauk and Fox, Iowa, Citizen Potawatomi, and Absentee Shawnee Indians
• Seger (Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians)
• Sells (Papago Indians)
• Seminole (Florida)
• Seneca (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
• Shawnee
• Shivwits
• Shoshoni (Shoshoni and Arapahoe Indians)
• Siletz
• Sioux Indians
• Sisseton (Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians)
• Skokomish, Clallam, Chehalis, Squaxin Island Nisqualli, Muckleshoot, Quinaielt, Queet, Georgetown
• Southern Navajo
• Southern Navajo Reservation
• Southern Pueblo
• Southern Utah (Shivwits OR Shebits and Kaibab Indians)
• Southern Ute
• Southern Ute (Ute and Jicarilla Apache Indians)
• Spokane
• Standing Rock (Sioux Indians)
• Taholah: (Quinaielt, Chehalis, Nisqualli, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Indians)
• Tomah (Winnebago Indians)
• Tongue River (Northern Cheyenne Indians)
• Truxton Canon: (Walapai and Havasupai Indians)
• Tulalip (Lummi, Muckleshoot, Port Madison, Swinomish, and Tulalip Reservations)
• Tule River
• Turtle Mountain (Chippewa Indians)
• Uintah and Ouray: (Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White River Ute Indians)
• Umatilla: (Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Indians)
• Union (Choctaw Indians Only)
• United Pueblos
• United Pueblos:
• Ute Indians
• Ute Mountain (Ute Indians)
• Vermillion Lake (Bois Fort Band of Chippewa Indians)
• Walker River: (Paiute Indians)
• Warm Springs (Warm Springs, John Day, Paiute, Tenino, and Wasco Indians)
• Western Navajo Reservation
• Western Navajo: (Hopi Indians and Navajo and Paiute Indians For 1929)
• Western Shoshone (Shoshoni and Paiute Indians)
• White Earth (Chippewa Indians)
• White Earth Reservation
• White Earth Sub-agency
• Wind River (Shoshoni and Arapahoe Indians) (Supplemental Rolls)
• Winnebago
• Winnebago and Oneida Indians
• Winnebago and Oneida Indians and Stockbridge-Munsee Community For 1938)
• Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Bois Forte, and White Oak Point Reservations
• Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Bois Forte, Mille Lac, White Oak Point Res
• Wittenberg (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin)
• Yakima
• Yakima (Yakima and Other Indians)
• Yankton
• Zuni

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