GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Michigan: MI-7

Sacred Heart Church
245 North Ontario Street (physical address)
De Tour Village, MI 49725
12841 East Traynor Road (postal address)
Goetzville, MI 49736

Phone: 906-297-5211
Email: 4parishoffice@centurylink.net

Hours: See webpage

 

History: Sacred Heart Church, De Tour, Chippewa County, Michigan, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Gaylord (Archives: Gaylord, Michigan). It had some Native American parishioners.

1884-1888	Grand Rapids diocesan priests at St. Mary’s, Sault Sainte Marie, established and attended to Sacred Heart Mission (Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi)
1889-1891	Grand Rapids diocesan priests at St. Anne's, Mackinac Island, attended to Sacred Heart
1891-1971 (no longer Native by 1920s)	Sacred Heart became a parish administered by Grand Rapids diocesan priests
1971-present	Gaylord diocesan priests have administered Sacred Heart

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1891-1920s

Volume: Several records

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Sacred Heart 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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