GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-76
California State Library
900 “N” Street, Room 200
P.O. Box 942837
Sacramento, CA 94237
Phone: 916-654-0176
Alternate website: Online Archive of California
Hours: See website
Access: No restrictions
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1839-1992
Volume: Ca. 5 cubic feet
Description: 5 collections and items include Native Catholic records:
Manuscript Collections:
/1 “Coy, Owen Cochran, Papers, Manuscript Boxes 1295-1307”
Inclusive dates: 1860-1940
Volume: 3.6 cubic feet
Description: Director of the California [State] Historical Commission; re: deterioration, excavation, reconstruction, and restoration of the 21 Spanish Franciscan Native American missions in California, 1920s-1930s.
/2 “Doyle, John T., Collection, Manuscript Boxes 470-477”
Inclusive dates: 1870-1907, undated
Volume: .9 cubic feet
Description: John T. Doyle (1819-1906) was legal counselor to Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. [Dominicans] and Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan, both of San Francisco; includes legal records of the Pious Fund case that was presented to the International Arbinal Court, The Hague, Netherlands, 1902, to seek monetary compensation from Mexico for the Franciscan Native American mission lands confiscated in California. See also – Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records, Marquette University Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
/3 “Vasquez, José Tiburcio, Papers, Manuscript Boxes 201 and 320”
Inclusive dates: 1839-1865
Volume: .3 cubic foot
Description: Papers of an administrator of San Francisco de Asís [Dolores] Mission, 1839-1846; includes mission financial accounts, 1839-1840.
Rare Books and Publications:
/4 “Official Register of Land Grants”
Inclusive dates: 1839-1840
Volume: 1 oversize volume plus microfilm with less than 5% Native Catholic
Description: Records to lands in California granted by Spain and Mexico; includes Spanish Franciscan mission lands and related petitions from Indians and non-Indians; arranged alphabetically by surname of grant and grantee or petitioner and numerically by case numbers.
/5 “Sherman Institute Publications, Microfilm Numbers 1122-1124”
Inclusive dates: 1892-1992
Volume: 14 reels of microfilm, in part
Description: Sherman Government Institute, Riverside, California; the Native American (e.g. Cahuilla, Cupeño, Kumiai) students were predominantly Catholic.
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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