GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-25
St. Peter the Apostle Church
305 W. Fifth Street (physical address)
P.O. Box 353 (postal address)
Park Rapids, MN 56470
Phone: 218-732-5142
Email: sm2inlets@arvig.net
History: St. Peter the Apostle Church, Park Rapids, Minnesota, and its mission, St. Mary’s, Two Inlets, have been two predominantly non-Native American parishes in the Diocese of Crookston (Archives: Crookston, Minnesota). Crookston diocesan priests at St. Mary’s had attended to St. Theodore Mission (Ojibwa), Ponsford, near the White Earth Reservation.
St. Theodore Church:
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1891-1903 |
Benedictines (St. John's Abbey) (Archives: Collegeville, Minnesota) at St. Benedict's, White Earth, attended to Pine Point station (Ojibwa) |
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1903-1969 |
Became a parish; Benedictines administered St. Theodore/ St. Mary Church |
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1969-1976 |
Benedictines at St. Benedict’s, White Earth, attended to St. Theodore's |
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1976-present |
Crookston diocesan priests at St. Mary’s, Two Inlets, attended to St. Theodore's |
Benedictines at St. Theodore's, Ponsford, administered the following Native American (Ojibwa) missions and stations in Minnesota:
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1903-1915 |
Round Lake station, Becker County |
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1903-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
Sacred Heart Mission, Onigum/ Leech Lake, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1905-1923 |
Bena station, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1905-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
Cass Lake station, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1910-1924 (closed) |
Flat Lake station, Becker County |
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1910-1924 (closed) |
Many Points Lake station, Becker County |
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1912-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
St. Ann Mission, Ball Club, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1912-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
Bowstring station, near Leech Lake Reservation |
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1915-1966 (closed) |
St. Gertrude Mission, Round Lake, Becker County |
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1918-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
St. Anne Mission, Naytahwaush, White Earth, Reservation |
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ca. 1922-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
Cut Foot Sioux station, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1923-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
St. Ann Mission, Bena, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1925-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
[Big] Elbow Lake station, Becker County |
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ca. 1925-1926 (transferred to St. Catherine's, Cass Lake) |
Island Lake station, Mahnomen County, near White Earth Reservation |
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1928-1964 (transferred to St. Agnes, Walker) |
Sacred Heart Mission, Onigum, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1928-1964 (transferred to St. Agnes, Walker) |
Ah-Gwah Ching Sanitorium, Walker/ Onigum, Leech Lake Reservation |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1903-ongoing
Volume: At least 0.8 cubic foot
Description:
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1903-ongoing
Volume: At least 8 volumes
Description: For St. Theodore's, Ponsford, and its attended Native missions and stations; sacramental records for Sacred Heart Mission, Onigum, date only to 1940; records for Sacred Heart from 1940-1964 are at St. Agnes Church, Walker: Baptisms, marriages, deaths, 1903-ongoing; first communions, 1940-ongoing; confirmations, 1914-ongoing
/2 "Status Animarium" or census record
Inclusive dates: 1930s
Volume: 1 volume
Description: For Sacred Heart Mission, Onigum; includes names of parents and children with dates when sacraments were administered
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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