GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Louisiana: LA-28
St. Joseph Church
307 Hammond Street
Zwolle, LA 71486
Phone: 318-645-6155
History: St. Joseph Church, Zwolle, and St. Ann Church, Ebarb/ Noble, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, have had substantial numbers of Native American (e.g. Mestizo, Apache, Caddo, Choctaw) parishioners in the Diocese of Shreveport (Archives: Shreveport, Louisiana).
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1721-1773 (closed) |
As a barrier to French expansion west of Natchitoches, Spanish authorities founded Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes Presidio with Spanish-Mestizo soldiers, many of whom married local Caddo and Lipan Apache women (the latter were brought to the area as slaves); many of their families then populated the area |
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After 1803 |
A band of Choctaw Indians intermarried and settled in the area |
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1881-1986 (transferred to Shreveport Diocese) |
Alexandria diocesan priests founded St. Joseph Church (e.g. Mestizo, Caddo, Choctaw, Apache), Zwolle, which first Alexandria, and then Alexandria-Shreveport diocesan priests administered |
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1935-1986 (transferred to Shreveport Diocese) |
Alexandria-Shreveport diocesan priests founded and administered St. Ann Church (e.g. Mestizo, Caddo, Choctaw, Apache), Ebarb/ Noble |
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1986-present |
Shreveport diocesan priests have administered St. Joseph’s |
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1986-2005 |
Shreveport diocesan priests administered St. Ann’s |
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2005-present |
Shreveport diocesan priests at St. Joseph’s have attended St. Ann’s |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1890s-ongoing
Volume: Many records within several volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Joseph Church and St. Ann Church.
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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