The September 21, 1912 Colville Agency Report: Central Classified Files [CCF], 1907–1939. Entry PI-163 121A. Part File No: 33448-1908-053. Part 5. Box 8. Stack Location: 11E3, 10/5/6 Record Group 75. U.S. Department of Interior: Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Theses records are the BIA headquarters records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Record Group 75, in part of the Colville Indian Agency enrollment period. These records include the Central Classified Files (CCF), which serve as the main correspondence series for BIA headquarters during the twentieth century.
Some of the BIA records in the CCF files include, but not limited to, letters received, copies of letters sent, reports, memoranda, Colville Indian Council Minutes, tribal enrollments, affidavits, tribal applications, and more.
The document gives critical insight and evidence in the file about the Cree Indians from Canada who settled, lived, and were apart of the Fort Colville Indian Agency that was supervised by the BIA with the Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Many of these early Indian families went back and forth among the Confederated Tribes from Canada, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Further, the evidence gives specific historical details about the Cree Indian families identified as the two brothers: Jim Finley and Patrick Finley and their children the enrollment period as the late Mrs. Catherine Finley-Peone, Mrs. Mary Finley-King, and grandchild, Mrs. Mary Louise King-Conrady.
