GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Louisiana: LA-2
Tekakwitha Conference. National Center
2225 North Bolton Avenue
Alexandria, LA 71301
Phone: 318-483-3908
Email: tekconf@gmail.com
History:
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1939-1976 |
In Fargo, North Dakota, Bishop Aloysius Muench (later Cardinal; 1889-1962) founded the Tekakwitha Conference in collaboration with missionaries among Northern Plains tribes, which became an annual meeting supporting their pastoral mission |
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1977-1980 |
Under the leadership of Rev. Gilbert F. Hemauer, O.F.M.Cap. (1938-2016), Sister Kateri Mitchell (Mohawk), S.S.A., and others, and with financial support from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, the Tekakwitha Conference reorganized. and emerged as a national association to support the spiritual needs of Native American Catholics. It established a national support center, first in Bozeman, and then in Great Falls, Montana. |
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1977-present |
The annual conferences of the Tekakwitha Conference became four-day events featuring daily inculturated liturgies, workshops, and pilgrimages to local sites of common interest. It promoted the formation of Kateri circles (local chapters). |
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2013 |
The national center moved to a Conference-owned facility in Alexandria, Louisiana |
Holding of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1980s-ongoing
Volume: Few cubic feet possible
Description: Recent records only; ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serves as the archival repository of the Tekakwitha Conference.
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Archives.
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