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AMERICA'S FIRST NATIONS CURRICULA COLLECTION, 2000, 0.15 foot (0.15 foot unprocessed).
Photographs, video recordings, and a retired website from the America's First Nations Summer Institute for K-12 social studies teachers, which 蜜桃影像 hosted with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This collection pertains to K-12 curricula for Native American history in the United States since ancient times.
[Connect to America's First Nations Curricula Inventory]
AMERICAN INDIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS NETWORK RECORDS, 2017-, 0.15 foot + 0.3 GB (0.15 foot + 0.3 GB unprocessed).
Records of a Catholic schools network that supports quality Catholic education and their students' Native American cultural identities. Member schools are located on the Blackfeet (Montana), Pine Ridge (South Dakota), Winnebago-Omaha (Nebraska), San Carlos (Arizona), and Navajo (Arizona) reservations.
[Connect to American Indian Catholic Schools Network Inventory]
, 1956-1972, undated, 0.8 foot.
26 song recordings of approximately 17 hours of Native American music in Dakota-Lakota and other Native American languages of the Great Plains region.
[Connect to Frank Andrews Inventory]
, 1937-2008, undated, 0.4 foot.
Papers of a Hunkpapa Lakota teacher-scholar and Sister of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity who was best known for reflections on the Oglala Lakota holy man, Black Elk, 1863-1950 (Nicholas W. Black Elk, Sr., 1866-1950).
[Connect to Marie Therese Archambault Inventory]
, 1957-1996, undated [1970s-1990s], 0.2 foot
Primarily photography of Native American religious sisters and brother and clergy at ANRC annual retreats, a statement from the 1992 Tekakwitha Conference (Orono, Maine), and notes from an interview of Rev. Georges P. Mathieu (Potawatomi, 1912-1996).
[Connect to Native Religious and Clergy Inventory]
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, 1815-1925, undated, 0.1 foot [3 reels microfilm].
Records pertaining to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church and School, Pembina, North Dakota, and Catholic evangelization among M茅tis and Ojibwa Indians in Manitoba, Minnesota, and North Dakota.
[Connect to Julius Belleau Inventory]
, 1990-1997, 1.3 feet.
Includes interviews on birthing practices from four Siksika Indian women in Montana.
BLACK ELK, NICHOLAS, COLLECTION, 1885-, undated, 0.6 foot + 2.9 GB (2.9 GB unprocessed).
Articles and letters in translation, petitions and minutes, ephemera, and photography about the life, legacy, and canonization cause of Nicholas Black Elk (1860s-1950), an Oglala Lakota medicine man and catechist from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.
[Connect to Black Elk Inventory]
, 1939-1958, 0.2 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Interview transcripts of Siksika Indians regarding their historic life in Montana; from the fieldwork of Susan Dietrich and Oscar Lewis.
[Connect to Blackfoot Research Project Inventory]
, 1848-, undated, 609.8 feet + 113.0 GB [421 reels microfilm] (25.1 feet unprocessed).
The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, formerly, The Office of Catholic Commissioner for Indian Missions (1874-), supports Catholic evangelization among Native American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the United States and dependent territories through advocacy for and financial support of Native American Catholic missions, schools, and parishes in need. Also, the BCIM has supported Native American economic justice and human rights issues through government advocacy, monitoring, and testimony. The BCIM records form Record Group 1 in the collection, which includes correspondence, reports, publications, audio/ video recordings, photography, government documents, and websites. Record Groups 2 and 3 contain the records of two allied agencies, and with the BCIM, they comprise the Black and Indian Mission Office (Washington, D.C.). Record Group 2 contains the records of the Commission for Catholic Missions among the Colored People and the Indians, which in part, pertain to Native American Catholics.
[Connect to Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Inventory]
BUREAU OF CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION
See -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. Selected digital images of Native Americans and related Catholic Church officials from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Sacred Heart Province Franciscan Records, and Walter Bernard 鈥淏en鈥� Hunt Collection.
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The Commission for Catholic Missions among the Colored People and the Indians (1884-), also known as the Black and Indian Mission Collection, has supported Catholic evangelization among African Americans and Native Americans in the United States and dependent territories with advocacy and financial support of the Catholic missions, schools, and parishes that have served these populations. This has been accomplished through the solicitation and redistribution of funds through dioceses in the United States and dependencies, plus adjacent countries ecclesiastically subject to and/or supported by the Church in the U.S. (e.g. Bahamas, Haiti, Philippines, U.S. Virgin Islands). The Commission records include correspondence, reports, publications, audio/ video recordings, photography, and websites, which comprise Record Group 2 within the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records. Today, the Commission and BCIM represent two of three affiliated agencies in the Black and Indian Mission Office (Washington, D.C.).
[Connect to Commission for Catholic Missions among Colored People and Indians Inventory]
This inventory describes the department's print and/or microfilm holdings of national Catholic directories for Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and Jesuit province catalogs worldwide since the 19th century. The directories aid in illuminating Marquette special collections, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, by identifying the Catholic institutions and the priests and religious who staffed them. The provides further information on the content and arrangement of the directories.
, 1980s-, bulk 1980s-2000s, 7.0 feet + 15.5 GB (7.0 feet + 15.5 GB unprocessed).
Photography and writings by independent photographer Richard G. Flamer regarding the poor, refuges, and the Catholic Worker Movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Subjects include Maya Indians, prominent leaders, landscapes, and the development of a Catholic Worker community center and farm in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.
[Connect to Chiapas and Central America Inventory]
, 1876-1980, 0.1 foot [3 reels microfilm].
Benedictine mission and school records regarding evangelization of Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, Hunkpapa, Santee, and Sisseton-Wahpeton Indians in North and South Dakota.
[Connect to Conception Abbey Inventory]
CONGREGATION OF THE GREAT SPIRIT RECORDS, 1987, 1989-, 0.2 foot + -- GB (0.2 foot + 1.56 GB unprocessed).
Primarily printed materials, photography, and video recordings of a socially active inter-tribal American Indian Catholic parish in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1989, it actively supported the Siggenauk Interfaith Spiritual Center (1989-2004), a social justice ministry, which it acquired and has maintained as a parish outreach since 2004-.
[Connect to Congregation of the Great Spirit Inventory]
, 1986-, 187.0 feet (153 feet unprocessed).
Records of humanitarian projects throughout the world, which were administered by Catholic religious sisters and funded by the Hilton Fund for Sisters (1986-). Most projects sought to alleviate critical community needs in education, health care, clean water, and economic or energy development, whereas others targeted the internal needs of congregations of Catholic women religious, especially those in former Communist countries. Several projects in the United States, and elsewhere in North and South America, targeted needs among indigenous Native American, African American, and other minority populations.
[Connect to Hilton Fund for Sisters Inventory]
, 0.1 foot [2 reels microfilm].
Yankton Indian kinship and Dakota language.
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DIETRICH, SUSAN, PAPERS
See-- Blackfoot Research Project Collection.
[Connect to Susan Dietrich Inventory]
DIOCESE OF HELENA RECORDS, 1855-2003, 0.1 foot [3 reels microfilm].
Sacramental records of Siksika Indians in Montana. This collection is restricted.
, 1580-1716, 1981-1992, undated, 0.5 foot + 11.6 GB [400 35mm slides].
Spanish language correspondence and reports regarding Dominican and Franciscan evangelization of Maya and Zoque Indians in Chiapas and Jesuit evangelization of Tarahumara Indians in Nueva Vizcaya (Chihuahua and Durango), Mexico amid Spanish government colonization of the region.
[Connect to Diocese of San Cristobal Inventory]
, 1977-2016, undated, 3.8 feet + 0.9 GB (0.7 cubic foot unprocessed).
Photographs, interviews, and background documentation about notable Native Americans, primarily from South Dakota, who were engaged in their Dakota-Lakota cultural reawakening, 1960s-1970s. Most materials were compiled for the book, Vision Quest: Men, Women, and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation. School fund raising calendars from Red Cloud Indian School (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota) and St. Augustine School (Winnebago Indian Reservation, Nebraska) are also included.
[Connect to Don Doll Inventory]
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, 1906-1973, undated, 1.4 feet.
Correspondence of Elizabeth Mary Hulsman Eisenman (1868-1959) and sons Father Omer H. Eisenman (1889-1980), Father Sylvester Eisenman (1891-1948), O.S.B., Leonard John Eisenman (1893-1947), and Father Edward L. Eisenman (1895-1966), which were compiled in the book, My Dear Sons. Father Sylvester developed St. Paul's Mission on the Yankton Reservation, Marty, South Dakota.
[Connect to Eisenman Family Inventory]
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DIOCESE OF SOUTH DAKOTA ARCHIVES, 1879-1908, 0.1 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Four registers of sacraments performed by Episcopal Church clergy among Oglala Indians on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
[Connect to Episcopal Church, Diocese of South Dakota Inventory]
EWENS, MARY, O.P., RESEARCH COLLECTION, 1882-2014, 2.1 feet (2.0 unprocessed).
Primarily notes, facsimile papers, and interview recordings regarding communities of native religious sisters: the Congregation of the American Sisters (Dakota-Lakota) in Dakota Territory and Cuba; Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (Dakota-Ojibwa) in South Dakota; and Sisters of Our Lady the Snows (Yupik Eskimo), a series of three communities in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Restrictions apply to interview recordings.
[Connect to Mary Ewens Inventory]
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, 1937-2005, undated, 0.7 foot [6 reels microfilm] (0.4 foot unprocessed).
Field papers in Spanish and Quich茅 regarding the life and culture of Quich茅 (K'iche') Indians in Guatemala during a government-sponsored reign of genocide. These papers, comprised of interviews, notes, manuscripts, maps, and photography, document massacres in native communities, their struggles for justice and human rights, and their revitalization with assistance from Catholic Action. The author used these papers in his Ph.D. dissertation and published writings.
[Connect to Ricardo Falla-S谩nchez Inventory]
FLUSCHE, DELLA M., PAPERS, 0.4 foot (0.4 foot unprocessed).
Spanish language notes and transcripts regarding 17-18th century Jesuit missions and Spanish colonial government among native peoples in Chile. The author used these papers for her published writings.
, 1863-2012, undated, 2.0 feet.
Primarily correspondence with facsimiles and diaries regarding Father Francis M. Craft (1852-1920), a mixed-descent Mohawk Indian, and the Congregation of American Sisters he founded. The American Sisters were a Catholic religious community of Dakota-Lakota Indians, who served as missionaries, pastoral ministers, and nurses among the Arikara, Mandan, Gros Ventre, and Dakota-Lakota Indians in North and South Dakota. Later, four members and Fr. Craft served as nurses and administered a hospital for U.S. Armed Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
[Connect to Thomas Foley Inventory]
, 1924-1982, 7.5 feet.
Case files, correspondence, clippings, and reports of Noel P. Fox, a U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Michigan, 1962-1979. Most notable is a federal court case regarding the fishing rights of Ojibwa and Ottawa Indians.
[Connect to Noel Fox Inventory]
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GERALD L. IGNACE INDIAN HEALTH CENTER RECORDS, 2014-. 230 MB.
Records from the board of directors, news reports, and recordings regarding the development of a Milwaukee-based health center serving the Native American community in Southeast Wisconsin, e.g. Ho Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, in partnership with the U.S. Indian Health Service, 蜜桃影像, and others. Included are records documenting the health center's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-.
GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES
Revised edition, 2017-2020; 1,100 guide entries, 5 volumes. Through repository-based entries, Marquette's Native Guide provides referrals to records at other repositories and extensive illumination of its Native America collections. The guide entries include contact information and brief descriptions of each repository's targeted records, and for the Catholic organizations, chronologies are included that identify their past involvement with numerous Native American and Catholic groups (e.g. dioceses, priests, women religious). The chronologies, some of which are extensive, provide essential pathways for identifying and navigating diverse topics within the Native America collections, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records.
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, 1912-1973, 2.6 feet.
Includes research and writings about P猫re Jacques Marquette, S.J., a 17th century explorer-evangelist among Native American peoples in the Great Lakes-Mississippi River basins.
[Connect to Raphael Hamilton Inventory]
, 1868-, undated, 162.4 feet + 47.9 GB [40 reels microfilm] (92.3 feet unprocessed).
Records pertaining to Dakota-Lakota (Oglala) Indians on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota with evangelization, pastoral, educational, farming and ranch activities by Jesuits, Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, and Native American collaborators. Of special note is the Heritage Center, which has sponsored the annual Red Cloud Art Show, 1972-. Also included are some materials pertaining to Dakota-Lakota (Brul茅) Indians on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and events there by Jesuits and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity. Notable persons include Chief [Peter] Red Cloud, Holy Man [Nicholas W.] Black Elk, Rev. Eugene Buechel, S.J., and Rev. Joseph A. Zimmerman, S.J.
[Connect to Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud Indian School Inventory]
HOLY ROSARY MISSION -- RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION
See -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud Indian School. Selected digital images of Native Americans and related Catholic Church officials from the Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud Indian School Records.
, 1990-2006, undated, 0.5 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Board minutes, HONOR Digest [newsletter], and other records of a Wisconsin-based independent advocacy organization for treaty rights and justice issues affecting American Indians.
[Connect to Honor Our Neighbors' Origins and Rights Inventory]
, 1924-1947, undated, 0.2 foot + 0.2 GB.
Photography from a de-constructed album compiled by Hunt. Included are mages by Hunt of Black Elk, 1863-1950 [Nicholas W. Black Elk (Oglala), 1866-1950] and other Oglala Indians in South Dakota; Ojibwa Indians and birch-bark canoe-building in Wisconsin; and Hunt and wood-crafted figurines by him.
[Connect to Ben Hunt Inventory]
See also -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. Selected digital images of Native Americans and related Catholic Church officials from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Sacred Heart Province Franciscan Records, and Walter Bernard 鈥淏en鈥� Hunt Collection.
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, 1993-2003, undated, 1.0 foot.
Interviews, notes, and reports regarding Dakota-Lakota and Tohono O鈥檕dham Catholic liturgical adaptation in the dioceses of Rapid City (South Dakota) and Tucson (Arizona) with reports of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Native American Catholics. These meetings were preceded by the Medicine Men and Clergy Dialogue at St. Francis Mission (Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota), 1973-1978.
[Connect to Inculturation Task Forces Inventory]
THE INDIAN SENTINEL DIGITAL PERIODICAL COLLECTION
See also -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > The Indian Sentinel. Features the illustrated English edition (1902-1962) with full-text searchable capability; German edition (1902-1917) not included.
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JANDA, JAMES, PAPERS, undated, 0.6 foot (0.6 foot unprocessed).
Primarily poetry, plays, and children's stories. Of special note is "The Hanbelachia Collection," which pertains to Dakota-Lakota Indians and Jesuit evangelization in South Dakota. This collection is closed.
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, 1989-2012, 2.2 feet + .8 GB.
Recordings, transcripts, testimony, photography, a journal, and notes regarding religious prayer, devotion, and a miracle attributed to the intercession by St. Kateri Tekakwitha (Algonquin - Mohawk), then a sainthood candidate. The contributors were Native Americans (Dakota-Lakota Jemez, Laguna, Mohawk, Navajo, Pima, Tohono O'odham, Menominee, Ottawa, and Winnebago [Ho Chunk] Indians) in South Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington State and Wisconsin.
[Connect to Kateri Tekakwitha Project Inventory]
, 1981-1986, undated, 4.6 feet (1.2 feet unprocessed).
Recordings produced at Native ministry seminars and public celebrations in western Canada under the auspices of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Several notable U.S. and Canadian speakers were included.
LEWIS, OSCAR, PAPERS
See -- Blackfoot Research Project Collection.
[Connect to Oscar Lewis Inventory]
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, 1867-1940, 0.1 foot [45 microfiche].
Correspondence and other papers on microfiche regarding Dr. Valentine Trant McGillycuddy, a physician, cartographer, and Pine Ridge (Red Cloud) U.S. Indian Agent to the Oglala Indians in South Dakota.
[Connect to Valentine McGillycuddy Inventory]
MARQUETTE, P脠RE JACQUES, S.J., COLLECTION
See -- University Archives -- D2 Jesuit Community Records and P猫re Marquette Collection.
, 1901-1991, 0.3 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Primarily minutes of the board of directors and The Calumet [newsletter], 1913-1958, of a U.S. lay fund-raising organization for Catholic schools serving Native American students.
[Connect to Marquette League Inventory]
, 1889-1893, 0.6 foot.
Facsimiles of letter books compiled by Thomas Jefferson Morgan as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, which pertain to his administration of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, American Indian assimilation and education and conflicts with the Catholic Church.
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, 1593-1977, undated, 0.9 foot [29 reels microfilm].
Microfilmed records authored by French Government and Jesuit explorers and evangelizers in the Great Lakes, Mississippi, and St. Lawrence regions. Includes related research notes by Rev. Raphael N. Hamilton, S.J.
[Connect to North American French Regime Inventory]
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OBLATE SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT COLLECTION, 1960s-1980s. 0.5 foot (0.5 foot unprocessed).
Recordings from three South Dakota conferences regarding Dakota-Lakota Indian traditions and digitized photography of Dakota Indians in South Dakota. Benedictines and Oblate Sisters are included in the materials.
, bulk 1920-1956 [16 reels microfilm].
Correspondence and writings by Bishop O'Hara regarding Bible translations, the Catholic Broadcasters Association, the Chemawa Government Indian School (Salem, Oregon), the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, rural life and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and Catholic Action or Acci贸n Cat贸lica. His concerns regarding rural life and Catholic Action pertained to Latin America and the United States.
[Connect to Edwin O'Hara Inventory]
, 1847-1881, 0.4 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Records authored by Jesuits at the Osage Mission and the Osage Manual Labor School for Osage Indian students in Kansas.
[Connect to Osage Mission Inventory]
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, 1887-1960, 0.2 foot.
Papers authored and collected by Juliana Pena Calac regarding her schooling and family life and that of her siblings in California; U.S. military service by Cupe帽o Indians; and her work on U.S. Government acknowledgement and economic justice concerns of Cupe帽o Indians of Pala, California.
[Connect to Juliana Pe帽a Calac Inventory]
, 1992-2005, undated, 0.6 foot. (0.5 foot unprocessed).
Records of a national pastoral ministry by and about the Mayas in the United States under the auspices of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
[Connect to Proyecto Pastoral Maya Inventory]
, 1927-[ongoing], 23.8 feet.
Papers regarding United States Government 鈥� Native American tribal relationships by a 蜜桃影像 history professor. The papers include correspondence, teaching notes, lectures, and subject and research project files for books with photography, e.g. Indian Peace Medals in American History, 1971, The Churches and the Indian Schools, 1979.
[Connect to Francis Paul Prucha Inventory]
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, 1727-2003, undated, 13.1 feet + .9 GB (4.3 feet unprocessed).
Published writings, manuscript drafts and notes, and facsimile correspondence from other repositories comprise the bulk of these anthropological papers on orality and religious beliefs in ethnic groups from North America, Africa, and the East Indies. Most notable was his research among African Americans and the Winnebago [Ho Chunk] Indians, which include oral histories. Also included is Radin's file compiled by the FBI.
[Connect to Paul Radin Inventory]
RAPID CITY (SOUTH DAKOTA) JOURNAL NATIVE AMERICAN REFERENCE FILE, 1891, 1939-1941, 1946, 1955-1984, undated, 0.1 foot [72 microfiche].
Clippings with biographical and historical notes on Dakota-Lakota Indians and associates in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Cheyenne River Indian reservations and in Rapid City. Major topics include the American Indian Movement and Black Hills claims against the U.S. Government.
[Connect to Rapid City Journal Native American Reference Inventory]
, 2011-. 0.3 foot + 293 GB.
Digital still photography, sound recordings, notes, and ephemera pertaining primarily to Native American Catholic events in the United States and Europe. Most notable are the Tekakwitha Conference, 2011-; the U.S. pilgrimage to the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Vatican City/ Rome and Washington, D.C., 2012-2013; celebrations and dedications honoring St. Kateri Tekakwitha, 2011-; the opening of the canonization cause of the La Florida Martyrs, Tallahassee, 2015; a national Pro-Life rally, Washington, D.C., 2013; and the World Meeting of Families, Philadelphia, 2015.
[Connect to Herman Ray Inventory]
RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL RECORDS
See -- Marquette Archives > e-Archives (Digital Collections) > Native Collections > Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud Indian School Records.
[Connect to Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud School Inventory]
, 1952-1979, 1.6 feet.
Records comprised of correspondence, publications, and photography regarding the termination and restoration of the government-to-government relationship in Wisconsin between the Menominee Nation and the United States. Also included are records regarding Menominee Indian welfare and the designation of the Wolf River as a National Scenic River.
[Connect to Henry Reuss Menominee Inventory]
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, 1829-1981, 4.8 feet + .6 GB [43 reels microfilm].
Franciscan records regarding Menominee, Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Pima Indians and evangelization by Franciscans, and religious sisters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona.
[Connect to Sacred Heart Franciscan Inventory]
See also -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. Selected digital images of Native Americans and related Catholic Church officials from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Sacred Heart Province Franciscan Records, and Walter Bernard 鈥淏en鈥� Hunt Collection.
, 1878-, undated, 48.1 feet + 251.1 GB [22 reels microfilm] (20.2 feet unprocessed).
Records pertaining to Dakota-Lakota (Brul茅) Indians on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota with evangelization, pastoral, educational, farming, ranch, and radio broadcast (KINI Radio) activities by Jesuits, Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, and Native American collaborators. Of special note is the Medicine Men and Clergy Dialogue, 1973-1978, which was succeeded by the Inculturation Task Force of the Diocese of Rapid City under the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Also included are some materials pertaining to Dakota-Lakota (Oglala) Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation and events there by Jesuits and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity. Notable persons include Holy Man, [Nicholas W.] Black Elk, Rev. Eugene Buechel, S.J., and Rev. Joseph A. Zimmerman, S.J.
[Connect to St. Francis Mission Inventory]
ST. FRANCIS MISSION DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION
See -- Marquette Archives e-Archives > Native Collections > St. Francis Mission. Selected digital images of Native Americans and related Catholic Church officials from the St. Francis Mission Records.
, 1985-1993, 2017-, 0.3 foot (0.3 unprocessed).
Records from an inter-tribal American Indian parish administered by Jesuits in Rapid City, South Dakota. The principal tribes and reservations represented are Brul茅, Rosebud; Hunkpapa, Standing Rock; Oglala, Pine Ridge; and Sans Arc, Cheyenne River.
[Connect to St. Isaac Jogues Church Inventory]
, 1873-1965, undated, 0.2 foot + .4 GB [7 reels microfilm].
Correspondence, photography, and a periodical from the Franciscans of St. John the Baptist (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California) provinces regarding missions and schools among the Apache, Navajo, Pima, Tohono O'Odham, and Yaqui Indians in Arizona and New Mexico.
[Connect to St. John the Baptist - Santa Barbara Franciscan Inventory]
, 1991-1995, undated, 0.5 feet + 6.6 GB.
Interviews by past students (Menominee and Potawatomi Indians) and teachers (Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet) regarding school life at St. Joseph's School on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin.
[Connect to St. Joseph's School Oral History Inventory]
, 1851-1871, 0.03 foot [1 reel microfilm].
Baptismal records from the Jesuit administered mission and school for Potawatomi Indians in Kansas.
[Connect to St. Mary's Mission Inventory]
, 1867-2008, 3.9 foot (3.0 feet unprocessed).
Primarily photographs, the Little Bronzed Angel, [newsletter], and other publications pertaining to Yankton Indians, Benedictines, and Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament on the Yankton Reservation, Marty, South Dakota.
[Connect to St. Paul's Mission Inventory]
, 1865, 1886-, undated, 7.8 feet [10 reels microfilm] (3.2 feet unprocessed).
Records pertaining to Arapaho and Shoshoni Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and evangelization by Jesuits and Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia.
[Connect to St. Stephen's Mission Inventory]
, 1935-2013, undated, 6.2 feet (0.5 foot unprocessed).
Primarily still photography at Catholic Church events in Canada, the United States, and the Vatican/ Rome, most of which relate to Native North Americans. Most notable are the Eucharistic Congresses (Philadelphia, 1976, Qu茅bec, 2008); Tekakwitha Conference meetings, 1979-2012; visits to United States and Canada by Popes John Paul II, 1979-2002, and Benedict XVI, 2008; the beatifications/ canonizations and related events honoring Kateri Tekakwitha, 1971-2013, St. Rose Philippe Duchesne, 1988, and Katharine Drexel, 1988; the ordinations of Bishops Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S. (Abenaki), and Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. (Potawatomi), 1986, 1988; and World Youth Day, Denver, 1993, and Toronto, 2002. Also included are reformatted lecture slides from Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., on Jesuit martyrs, undated (ca. 1925), and Kateri Tekakwitha, 1935.
[Connect to Anne Scheuerman Inventory]
, 1974-1990, undated, 3.4 feet.
Correspondence, proceedings, financial records, and miscellany pertaining to American Indian Catholics in Milwaukee and the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's intertribal outreach ministry, 1980-1989, which served them. Included are oral presentations from its Native American Spiritual Day by Sister Genevieve Cuny (Oglala), O.S.F., regarding her formation and life as a native religious sister, and Sister Kateri Mitchell (Mohawk), S.S.A., regarding her devotion to now St. Kateri Tekakwitha. In 1989, the Siggenauk Center was succeeded by Congregation of the Great Spirit and the Siggenauk Interfaith Spiritual Center.
[Connect to Siggenauk Center Inventory]
SIGGENAUK INTERFAITH SPIRITUAL CENTER RECORDS, 1988-2004, undated, .65 cubic foot
Correspondence, proceedings, and financial records of an interfaith and intertribal Native American spiritual and social justice ministry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1989-2004. It was preceded by the Siggenauk Center of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, 1980-1989, and succeeded by the Siggenauk Center, of Congregation of the Great Spirit, 2004-.
[Connect to Siggenauk Interfaith Spiritual Center Inventory]
SIOUX SPIRITUAL CENTER RECORDS, 1972-, undated 5.0 feet (5.0 feet unprocessed).
Primarily photography and minutes, printed materials, and video recordings pertaining to Dakota-Lakota (Brul茅, Hunkpapa, Oglala, Sans Arc) and other Indian Catholics and their activities of the Sioux Spiritual Center, Plainview, South Dakota. In 1978, Jesuits, under the auspices of the Diocese of Rapid City, established and have administered the center, which supports permanent diaconate (established 1973) and lay ministry formation in the diocese and beyond.
[Connect to Sioux Spiritual Center Inventory
, 1960-2000, 3.2 feet (1.3 feet unprocessed).
Primarily photography, video recordings, and publications pertaining to Maya people and relationships of U.S. church groups in Wisconsin and Oklahoma with the Catholic Church in Chiapas, Mexico, and Guatemala.
[Connect to Sister Relationship Programs Inventory]
SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT RECORDS, 0.1 foot [2 reels microfilm].
Records of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.
, 1933-, undated, 7.5 feet + 57.3 GB.
Primarily oral history recordings in Cheyenne and meetings in English at St. Labre Mission, Ashland, Montana, regarding Cheyenne Indian life, history, and culture in Montana, South Dakota, and Oklahoma. Select transcripts in English and related publications and motion pictures included; also scenes at Mount Calvary and St. Anthony Hospital/ St. Benedict the Moor Mission for African Americans, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Capuchins administered St. Labre Mission, Mount Calvary, St. Anthony Hospital, and St. Benedict the Moor Mission.
[Connect to Soaring Eagle - Emmett Hoffmann Inventory]
STELTENKAMP, MICHAEL F., S.J., PAPERS, 1887-2019, undated, 1.5 feet + 0.9 GB (0.1 foot unprocessed).
Correspondence, photography , manuscripts, interview recordings, maps, and Ojibwa linguistic materials pertaining to pastoral ministry and scholarly research among the Oglala Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and pastoral ministry among Ojibwa Indians in Michigan鈥檚 Upper Peninsula by Steltenkamp and Rev. Paul M. Prud鈥檋umme, S.J. The bulk of the collection pertains to the life and legacy of Nicholas Black Elk (Oglala Lakota) and Oglala Lakota culture.
[Connect to Michael F. Steltenkamp Inventory]
, 1962-1964, undated, 1.4 feet + 56.7 GB (1.0 foot unprocessed).
Songs in native languages sung by Sutton with commentaries in English. Most songs originated among tribes in North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.
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, 1939-, undated, 14.4 feet + 230.2 GB [2 reels microfilm] (3.3 feet unprocessed).
Primarily proceedings, photography, publications, video recordings, newsletters, and websites regarding annual meetings, workshops, and special events. The latter included visits by St. Pope John Paul II and Vatican officials, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1989; beatification, authenticated miracle, and canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (Rome), 1980, 2012-2013; pilgrimages to St. Kateri sites and shrines (New York State and Quebec), 1985, 1995, 2012; World Day of Prayer for Peace (Assisi, Italy), 1986; and the ordinations of Bishops Donald E. Pelotte, S.S.S. (Abenaki), 1986, and Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. (Potawatomi), 1988. The bulk of the Tekakwitha Conference-related photography is held within the Anne M. Scheuerman and Herman D. Ray Photographic Collections and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records hold a few items.
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, 1936-1940, 0.1 foot [2 reels microfilm].
Recollections compiled by a Wisconsin mission school of 19th century Ojibwa Indian history and culture on the Bad River Reservation. Included is the origin of the Dream Dance (Big Drum) religion with the vision by Wiyaka Sinte Win (Tail Feather Woman) (Dakota) after 1862.
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YSLETA DEL SUR PUEBLO ARCHIVES, 1794-1985?, 0.6 foot [18 reels microfilm + 80 aperture cards].
Microfilmed and published records regarding Tiwa and Apache Indians in Texas. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, whose population is predominantly Catholic, compiled these records as part of its successful effort to achieve acknowledgement by the United States Government.
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ZUERN, REV. THEODORE F., S.J., COLLECTION, 1949-1994, undated, 1.2 GB (1.2 GB unprocessed).
Reformatted photography regarding Rev. Theodore F. "Ted" Zuern, S.J., (1927-2007), which depict the celebration of his first Mass and his ministry in South Dakota and Washington, D.C.
