GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-10
Northeast Minnesota Historical Center. Archives and Special Collections
Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota-Duluth Annex
202 10 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
Phone: 218-726-8526
Open: See website
Access: No restrictions
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1816-1977, undated
Total Volume: .7 cubic foot
Description: 4 collections include Native Catholic records:
/1 "Reverend Frederick Baraga Papers"
Inclusive dates: 1816-1860
Volume: .4 cubic foot
Description: Papers of Rev. I. Frederick Baraga:
A. Correspondence, 1833-1849, 3 folders: letters (copies) to/from Rev. Baraga; most from the Bishop Baraga Association Archives, Marquette, Michigan; major correspondents include Ramsey Crooks, President of the American Fur Company; J. Hartley Crawford and William Medill, both Commissioners of Indian Affairs; Henry Schoolcraft, Rev. Edmund Ely, and Antonia de Hoeffer, sister of Rev. Baraga
B. Rev. Baraga's diary (copy), 1816-1822, 7 pages: most in German
C. Rev. Baraga's baptismal records (copy), 1835-1860, 1 folder: records of Holy Family Mission, Bayfield, Wisconsin; from Holy Family Mission
/2 "Catholic Indian Mission of Fond du Lac"
Inclusive dates: ca.1908-1977
Volume: 1 folder
Description:
A. A Short History of the Catholic Indian Mission of Fond du Lac Near Cloquet, Minnesota, 1977, 4 pages: written by Rev. Alban Fruth
B. Fond du Lac Tri-Parish Pictorial Directory, 1977, 24 pages
C. Photographs, ca.1908-1970s, 25 prints
/3 "Northwest Missions Papers"
Inclusive dates: 1835-1863, undated
Volume: .25 cubic foot
Description: Typescripts of Letters, diaries, church records, and articles, re: Protestant and Catholic missions and missionaries in Minnesota and the Northwest, which represents a portion of a larger collection held by the Minnesota Historical Society and compiled during the late 1920s-early 1930s by Grace Lee Nute.
A. "Belcourt, G.A. [Georges Antoine], 1835-1848," 5 folders (copies): Correspondence and "Sketch of Red River Mission"
B. "Catholic Missions, 1836-1854," 1 folder (copies): Correspondence and reports from various missions
C. "Goiffon, Joseph, Autobiography, undated," 75 pages (copies): In French
D. "Loras, Mathias, Bishop of Dubuque, 1839-1841," 1 folder (copies): Correspondence
E. "Pierz, Franz (German), 1835-1863," 2 folders (copies): Correspondence in German and a baptismal register, 1835-1839
/4 Pogorelc, Matt
Inclusive dates: undated (before 1936)
Volume: 13 pages
Description: A history of northern Minnesota missions, 1850s-1880s, compiled from Rev. Joseph Francis Buh's diary.
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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