GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Arizona: AZ-8
Museum of Northern Arizona
Harold S. Colton Memorial Library
3101 North Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Phone: 928-774-5213
Email: info@musnaz.org
Archives Phone: See website
Archives Email: See website
Alternate website: Arizona Archives Online
Hours (Library & Archives): See website
Access (Library & Archives): See website
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1868-1974
Volume: Ca. 12 cubic feet
Description: 4 collections (2 manuscript collections and 2 photography collections) include Native Catholic records:
Manuscript Collections:
/1 “Father Berard Haile Papers, MS 63, MS 112, and MS 171“
Inclusive dates: 1900-1960s
Volume: 50 items
Description: Correspondence, reports, photographs, ethnographic notes and writings, and drawings (copies) by Rev. Berard Haile (1874-1961), O.F.M. [Franciscans], a missionary, linguist, and ethnologist at St. Michael’s Mission, St. Michaels, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, re: Navajo Indians; drawings from the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections Department, Tucson, Arizona.
/2 “Father Emanuel Trockur Collection, MS 244”
Inclusive dates: 1868-1974
Volume: Approximately 8 cubic feet unprocessed
Description: Papers of Rev. Emanuel Trockur (1890-1977), O.F.M., St. Michael’s Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians and Franciscans.
Photography Collections:
/3 “J.W. Hildebrand Collection, MS 168”
Inclusive dates: 1900s
Volume: Includes 27 photographs
Description: By Brother Simeon Schwemberger, O.F.M., St. Michael’s Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians.
/4 “St. Michael’s [Mission] Photograph Collection, MS 119”
Inclusive dates: 1900-1910
Volume: Over 3,600 photographic prints
Description: By Brother Simeon Schwemberger, O.F.M., St. Michael’s Mission, Arizona; re: Navajo Indians, Navajo Reservation, Franciscans, St. Michael’s Mission, and pueblo Indian ruins.
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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