The Journal of California Anthropology

The document presented here is Indian Agent Clara True's report to her superiors in Washington, D. C. At the time of the Willie Boy manhunt, Indian Agent True was in charge of the Malki Indian Agency at Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, California, and responsible for four other reservations in the area: Torres-Martinez in Indio, Agua Caliente in Palm Springs, Mission Creek in the hills east of Banning, and Twentynine Palms on the Mojave Desert. True (1909) presents an account of her experiences as a woman Indian agent. Her report on the Willie Boy manhunt, titled "The Willie Boy Case and Attendant Circumstances," was discovered in 1958 in the U. S. National Archives by Congressman Dalip Singh Saund. While the report adds little that is new to what is already known about the manhunt, it does present one of the few descriptions of the Indian village of Twentynine Palms, which was inhabited by Chemehuevi and Serrano.