GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES

Guide to Catholic Records about Native Americans in the United States

Revised, 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.

1: Eastern U.S.
Mark G. Thiel with Nicholas Zettel, 2007, rev2017-2020
Alabama
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mississippi
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
U.S. Virgin Islands
Vermont
Virginia
 
2: Midwest U.S.
Philip C. Bantin with Mark G. Thiel, 1984; Mark G. Thiel with Nicholas Zettel, rev2007-2020
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Wisconsin
 
3: Western U.S.
Mark G. Thiel with Nicholas Zettel, 2007; rev2017-2020, ISBN 978-0-87462-994-1
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
 
4: Outside U.S.
Mark G. Thiel with Nicholas Zettel, 2007, rev2017-2020, ISBN 978-0-87462-994-1
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Cuba
Czech Republic
France
Germany
India
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Peru
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Vatican City
 
5: Help & Search
Mark G. Thiel with Nicholas Zettel, 2007, rev2017-2020, ISBN 978-0-87462-994-1
Search & Search Tips
Acknowledgements
Preface, 1984
Preface, 2006
Catholic Terms
Catholic Groups
Native Terms
Native Groups
Non-Catholic Church Repositories
Choctaw Indian children holding a poster of St. Kateri Tekakwitha and joined by a priest of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and a sister of the Missionary Servants of the Blessed Trinity at Holy Rosary Mission, Tucker, Mississippi, 1934

Choctaw Indian children with a poster of St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity (priest) and Missionary Servants of the Blessed Trinity (religious sister), Holy Rosary Mission, Tucker, Mississippi, 1934; Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University.

Brulé Indian children, Jesuits, and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity at St. Francis Mission School    

Brulé Indian children, Jesuits, and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity at St. Francis Mission School, Rosebud Indian Reservation, St. Francis, South Dakota, ca. 1905; Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University.

San Xavier del Bac Mission, near Tuscon, Arizona

San Xavier del Bac Mission, San Xavier Indian Reservation, near Tucson, Arizona, undated (1940s), Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University.

Osage Indian tourists from Oklahoma at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, Palestine, ca. 1919-1932 by G. Felici, photographer

Osage Indian tourists from Oklahoma at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, Palestine, undated (ca. 1919-1932) by G. Felici, photographer; Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University.

 
Monsignor William Henry Ketcham with his adopted son Tom (Choctaw), in his office at the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions

Monsignor William H. Ketcham, Third Director, and his adopted son Tom (Choctaw) at the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, D.C., undated (ca. 1900-1920); Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University 01746.