GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Michigan: MI-43
St. Ignatius Loyola Church
120 Church Street
St. Ignace, MI 49781
Phone: 906-643-7671
Email: stigchurch@lighthouse.net
History: St. Ignatius Loyola Church, St. Ignace, Mackinac County, Michigan, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish that had some Native American (Ojibwa, Métis) parishioners in the Diocese of Marquette (Archives: Marquette, Michigan).
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1837-1853 |
Detroit diocesan priests at St. Anne’s, Mackinac Island, established and intermittently attended to St. Ignatius Loyola Mission (Ojibwa) |
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1853-1855, 1872-1876, 1878-1880 |
Marquette/ Upper Michigan diocesan priests at St. Anne’s, Mackinac Island, intermittently attended to St. Ignatius Loyola |
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1855-1858 (closed) |
A mission school was established |
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1855-1872, 1876-1878, 1880-present |
Became a parish; Marquette diocesan priests administered St. Ignatius Loyola Church |
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1898-1972 (closed) |
Ursulines (St. Ignace, Michigan) established and staffed a boarding and day school |
Marquette diocesan priests at St. Ignatius attended to the following Native American (Ojibwa) mission and station in the Upper Peninsula:
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1884-1923 |
Gros Cap station (Ojibwa), Mackinac County |
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1923-1930s (no longer Native) |
Sacred Heart Mission (Ojibwa), Gros Cap, Mackinac County |
Jesuits at St. Ignatius attended to the following Native American (Ojibwa) missions and stations in the Upper Peninsula:
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1939-1946 |
Entire Upper Peninsula excluding Baraga |
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1946-1948 |
Eastern District of the Upper Peninsula |
Holdings of Catholic-related records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1838-1930s
Volume: .6 cubic foot
Description: Before 1984 when inspected by Marquette archivists, the Native mission records at St. Ignatius Loyola were not organized according to a classification scheme. Consequently, they are described by record type.
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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