GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-76

California State Library
900 鈥淣鈥 Street, Room 200
P.O. Box 942837
Sacramento, CA 94237

Phone: 916-654-0176
Alternate website: Online Archive of California

 

Hours: See website

Access: No restrictions

Copying facilities: Yes

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1839-1992

Volume: Ca. 5 cubic feet

Description: 5 collections and items include Native Catholic records:

 

Manuscript Collections:

/1 鈥淐oy, Owen Cochran, Papers, Manuscript Boxes 1295-1307鈥

Inclusive dates: 1860-1940

Volume: 3.6 cubic feet

Description: Director of the California [State] Historical Commission; re: deterioration, excavation, reconstruction, and restoration of the 21 Spanish Franciscan Native American missions in California, 1920s-1930s.

 

/2 鈥淒oyle, John T., Collection, Manuscript Boxes 470-477鈥

Inclusive dates: 1870-1907, undated

Volume: .9 cubic feet

Description: John T. Doyle (1819-1906) was legal counselor to Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. [Dominicans] and Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan, both of San Francisco; includes legal records of the Pious Fund case that was presented to the International Arbinal Court, The Hague, Netherlands, 1902, to seek monetary compensation from Mexico for the Franciscan Native American mission lands confiscated in California. See also 鈥 Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records, 蜜桃影像 Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

/3 鈥淰asquez, Jos茅 Tiburcio, Papers, Manuscript Boxes 201 and 320鈥

Inclusive dates: 1839-1865

Volume: .3 cubic foot

Description: Papers of an administrator of San Francisco de As铆s [Dolores] Mission, 1839-1846; includes mission financial accounts, 1839-1840.

 

Rare Books and Publications:

/4 鈥淥fficial Register of Land Grants鈥

Inclusive dates: 1839-1840

Volume: 1 oversize volume plus microfilm with less than 5% Native Catholic

Description: Records to lands in California granted by Spain and Mexico; includes Spanish Franciscan mission lands and related petitions from Indians and non-Indians; arranged alphabetically by surname of grant and grantee or petitioner and numerically by case numbers.

 

/5 鈥淪herman Institute Publications, Microfilm Numbers 1122-1124鈥

Inclusive dates: 1892-1992

Volume: 14 reels of microfilm, in part

Description: Sherman Government Institute, Riverside, California; the Native American (e.g. Cahuilla, Cupe帽o, Kumiai) students were predominantly Catholic.

 

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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