GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-2

Northern Itasca County Catholic Community, St. Michael Church
12026 Lake Street
Northome, MN 56661
P.O. Box 11
Bigfork, MN 56628

Phone: 218-743-3255
Email: See website (Contact)

 

History: St. Michael Church, Northome, Itasca County, Minnesota, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Crookston (Archives: Crookston, Minnesota). Crookston diocesan priests at St. Philip Church, Bemidji, have attended to St. Michael’s, and from St. Michael’s, Crookston diocesan priests have attended to St. Catherine Mission (Ojibwa), Squaw Lake, Leech Lake Reservation.

 

History of St. Catherine Mission:

1936-1948	Benedictines (St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota) at St. Joseph's, Ball Club, established and attended to Squaw Lake station (Ojibwa)
1948-1962	Benedictines at St. Joseph's, Ball Club, established and attended to St. Catherine Mission (Ojibwa)
1962-1969	Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Central Province) (Archives: Washington, D.C.) at St. Michael’s, Northome, attended to St. Catherine’s
1969-1979	Became a parish; Oblates of Mary Immaculate administered St. Catherine Church
1979-1981	Oblates of Mary Immaculate at St. Michael’s, Northome, attended to St. Catherine’s
1981-present	Crookston diocesan priests at St. Michael’s, Northome, have attended to St. Catherine’s

Oblates of Mary Immaculate at St. Catherine's attended to Inger station (Ojibwa), 1974-1979 (closed).

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1963-ongoing

Volume: 1 volume

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Catherine Mission and Inger station.

 

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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