GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Arizona: AZ-28

Heard Museum. Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives
2301 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Phone: 602-251-0281
Email: See website (Education: Library: Archives)
Alternate website: Arizona Archives Online

 

Hours: See website (Education: Library: Archives)

Access: See website (Education: Library: Archives)

Copying facilities: Yes 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1904-1970, undated

Volume: Approximately 1 cubic foot

Description: 3 collections include Native Catholic records:

 

/1 “Simeon Schwemberger Photographs, RC 198”

Inclusive dates: 1904-1906, undated 

Volume: 15 images

Description: Photographs by Brother Simeon Schwemberger, O.F.M. [Franciscans]; re: Navajo, Hopi, and unidentified Indians. 

 

/2 “New Mexico Pueblos: Photographs, RC 14”

Inclusive dates: ca. 1944-1956 Volume: 35 prints

Description: Collected by Rev. Alexander K. Fankoviz; re: Indians of Jicarilla (Apache), San Ildefonso (Tewa), San Juan (Tewa), Santa Clara (Tewa), Santa Fe (various), and Taos (Tiwa), New Mexico; also ruins.   

 

/3 “Remembering Our School Days: The Boarding School Experience, RC 125”

Inclusive dates: ca. 1920-1970 

Volume: Ca. 1 cubic foot

Description: Photographs and interview recordings and transcripts; re: Gila River Reservation (Pima, Maricopa) and St. Michael’s School (Navajo), St. Michaels, Arizona.

 

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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