GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 4: Outside United States
France: FR-3

Jesuites. Europe Occidentale Francophone. Archives
Jesuits. French-Speaking Western Europe. Archives
15 rue Raymond Marcheron
92170 Vanves, France

Phone: 33 1 41 46 07 55
Email: sjarchives@jesuites.com

 

History: Established in 1976, the Province of France unified the four preceding French Jesuit provinces: Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, and Champagne. French Jesuits had evangelized in Quebec and Louisiana until 1762 (Jesuits expelled/ suppressed). Quebec included the Great Lakes and Ohio areas (e.g. Iroquois, Dakota, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Wyandot) whereas Louisiana included the lower Mississippi and Gulf coastal areas (e.g. Apalachee, Chitamacha, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Houma, Tunica).

Notable Native missions in the present-day United States established by Francophone Jesuits:

1656-1708 (abandoned)	Mission Sainte Marie among the Iroquois (Onondaga), New York
1667-1765	St. Francis Xavier Mission (Menominee, Métis), Fort La Baye, Green Bay, Wisconsin
1668-1767	St. Mary Mission (Ojibwa), Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
1671-1767	St. Ignace Mission (Ojibwa, Ottawa), St. Ignace, Michigan
1701-1767	Sainte Anne Church (Métis, Wyandot), Detroit/ Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
1703-1767	Illinois Mission (Illinois), Fort de Chartres, Illinois
1752-1767	St. Francis Regis Mission (Mohawk), St. Regis [Akwesasne], Quebec-New York
1841-1850, 1865-1888 (Natives relocated to Flathead Reservation)	St. Mary Mission (Salish), Stevensville, Montana; established by Rev. Pierre-Jean Desmet, S.J. [Jesuits]
1844-1854 (transferred to California Province)	St. Ignatius Mission (Kootenai, Salish), Washington; established by Rev. Pierre-Jean Desmet, S.J. [Jesuits]; relocated to Flathead Reservation, Montana

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans in the United States: Unknown. However, some pertinent records exist within the collection of Rev. Brotier, S.J. See also -- the guide entry for Bibliothèques de l'Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, which may hold records pertaining to Rev. Pierre-Jean Desmet, S.J.   

 

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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