GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Arizona: AZ-8

Museum of Northern Arizona
Harold S. Colton Memorial Library
3101 North Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Phone: 928-774-5213
Email: info@musnaz.org
Archives Phone: See website
Archives Email: See website
Alternate website: Arizona Archives Online

 

Hours (Library & Archives): See website

Access (Library & Archives): See website

Copying facilities: Yes  

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1868-1974

Volume: Ca. 12 cubic feet 

Description: 4 collections (2 manuscript collections and 2 photography collections) include Native Catholic records: 

 

Manuscript Collections:

/1 鈥淔ather Berard Haile Papers, MS 63, MS 112, and MS 171鈥

Inclusive dates: 1900-1960s 

Volume: 50 items 

Description: Correspondence, reports, photographs, ethnographic notes and writings, and drawings (copies) by Rev. Berard Haile (1874-1961), O.F.M. [Franciscans], a missionary, linguist, and ethnologist at St. Michael鈥檚 Mission, St. Michaels, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, re: Navajo Indians; drawings from the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections Department, Tucson, Arizona.  

 

/2 鈥淔ather Emanuel Trockur Collection, MS 244鈥 

Inclusive dates: 1868-1974

Volume: Approximately 8 cubic feet unprocessed

Description: Papers of Rev. Emanuel Trockur (1890-1977), O.F.M., St. Michael鈥檚 Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians and Franciscans.  

 

Photography Collections:

/3 鈥淛.W. Hildebrand Collection, MS 168鈥

Inclusive dates: 1900s

Volume: Includes 27 photographs 

Description: By Brother Simeon Schwemberger, O.F.M., St. Michael鈥檚 Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians.      

 

/4 鈥淪t. Michael鈥檚 [Mission] Photograph Collection, MS 119鈥

Inclusive dates: 1900-1910

Volume: Over 3,600 photographic prints

Description: By Brother Simeon Schwemberger, O.F.M., St. Michael鈥檚 Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians, Navajo Reservation, Franciscans, St. Michael鈥檚 Mission, and pueblo Indian ruins. 

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the 蜜桃影像 Archives.

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