GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Washington: WA-32

Whitman Mission National Historic Site
328 Whitman Mission Road
Walla Walla, WA 99362

Phone: 509-522-6360
Email: See website (Contact Us)

 

Hours: See website (Plan Your Visit)

Access: No restrictions

Copying facilities: Yes  

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1834-1847, undated 

Volume: Few items 

Description: The “Marcus and Narcissa Whitman Papers” (copies) include commentary on local Catholic missionaries and a map (copy), “Principal Mission and Stations,” 1834-1847, which notes the locations of Catholic and Protestant missions among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

 

Rev. Henry Spaulding, a Protestant missionary like the Whitmans’, believed that Rev. J.B.A. Brouillet, a Catholic missionary, was involved in a Cayuse Indian plot that resulted in the massacre of Rev. Marcus Whitman. Rev. Brouillet became a director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, the records of which have been archived by the Ӱ Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

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

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