James McLaughlin active 1876–1923, Devils Lake Agency (1876–1881), Standing Rock Sioux Agency (1881–?) Nathan Meeker, Indian agent for the White River Utes for a brief time, 1878–1879, until killed in the Meeker Massacre Return J. Meigs Sr., agent to the Cherokee in Tennessee from 1801 to 1823 John DeBras Miles, Indian agent for the Kickapoo Agency, 1868–1871. Indian agent for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, 1878–1884. Major Laban J. Miles, Indian agent at Osage Agency to the Osage and Kaw, 1878–1893. Uncle of president Herbert Hoover. Abel C. Pepper, Indian agent in Indiana Robert Latham Owen, Indian agent in Indian Territory 1886–1890. Part-Cherokee by birth, Owen was later elected one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. Henry Schoolcraft, agent to the Ojibwe in Michigan in the 1820s and 1830s Lawrie Tatum, Indian agent at Fort Sill Agency to the Kiowa and Comanche. Guardian of future President Herbert Hoover and his siblings Theodore and Mary. John Q. Tufts, Indian agent in Muskogee Indian Territory, 1879–1887 William Wells, Indian agent from 1792 to 1812; considered a "white Indian" because of his former association with the Miami Indians and role as an Indian agent interpreter Major David John Mosher Wood, Indian agent for the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency, in the Indian Territory, 1889–1893. Brother of Col. Samuel Newitt Wood. O. M. Wozencraft, Indian agent in California, 1850–1852 See also William Holland Thomas Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian agency police Board of Indian Commissioners Department of War Department of the Interior References Works cited "Indian Agents: Rulers of the Reserves" By John L. Steckley, 2016 Peter Lang Publishing "Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas" By Jack Jackson, 2005 Texas A&M University Press "The Silver Man: The Life and Times of Indian Agent John Kinzie" By Peter Shrake, 2016 Wisconsin Historical Society "The Official Correspondence of James S. Calhoun: While Indian Agent at Santa Fé and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico" by James S. Calhoun, 1915 U.S. Government Printing Office "Christopher Gist: Colonial Frontiersman, Explorer, and Indian Agent" by Kenneth P. Bailey, 1976 Archon Books External links Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture – Indian Agencies Fort Wayne Indian Agency Collection at the William L. Clements Library Indigenous affairs ministries United States federal Indian policy United States Indian agents