GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Kansas: KS-7
Immaculate Conception Church
208 West Bertrand Street
St. Marys, KS 66536
Phone: 785-437-2408
Email: icgeneral64@gmail.com
History: Immaculate Conception Church, St. Marys, Pottawatomie and Waubonsee Counties, Kansas, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Kanasas City in Kansas (Archives: Kansas City, Kansas) of that began as St. Mary Mission (Potawatomi).
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1839 |
Potawatomi Indians moved from Potawatomie Creek, Kansas, to Sugar Creek, Kansas |
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1839-1848 (closed) |
Jesuits (Missouri Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered Sugar Creek Mission (Potawatomi), Sugar Creek |
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1840-1848 (closed) |
Jesuits established and administered a School for Boys (Potawatomi) at the mission |
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1841-1848 (closed) |
Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered a School for Girls (Potawatomi) at the mission |
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1848 |
Potawatomi Indians moved from Sugar Creek, Kansas, to St. Marys, Kansas |
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1848-1870s (no longer Native) |
Jesuits established and administered Immaculate Conception Church/ St. Mary Mission (Potawatomi), St. Marys |
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1848-1870s (closed) |
Jesuits and Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart established and administered St. Mary Mission School (Potawatomi), St. Marys |
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1861 |
The Citizen Band Potawatomi relocated to Oklahoma and the Prairie Band relocated to Mayetta, Kansas |
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1869-1879 (no longer Native) |
Jesuits established and staffed St. Mary’s College (Potawatomi), St. Marys; destroyed by fire and rebuilt |
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1869-1879 (closed) |
Sisters of the Society of the Sacred established and staffed the Academy of the Sacred Heart (Potawatomi) at St. Mary Mission; destroyed by fire |
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1870s-1900 |
Jesuits from St. Mary’s Mission attended Silver Lake station (Potawatomi) and elsewhere (Potawatomi) |
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1941-1967 (closed, 1968) |
Jesuits from St. Mary’s College attended to students at Haskell Institute, Lawrence |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1839-1900
Volume: .5 cubic foot
Description: The records at Immaculate Conception Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 198. Consequently, the description is by record type.
A. Sacramental records, 1839-1900, 6 volumes: baptisms, 1851-1900; marriages, 1882-1900; deaths, 1872-1900; first communions, 1839-1842, 1851-1900; confirmations, 1842, 1845, 1851-1900
B. Membership lists in religious societies, 1839-1847, 1881, 1 volume
C. Census records, 1844, 1 volume
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.
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