GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-4
Holy Family Church
280 Reservation Road
Cloquet, MN 55720
Phone: 218-879-6793
History: Holy Family Church and Queen of Peace Church, Cloquet, Carlton County and Fond du Lac Reservation, Minnesota, are two mixed Native (Ojibwa) and non-Native American parishes in the Diocese of Duluth (Archives: Duluth, Minnesota), which share staff and resources. The contemporary Holy Family Church was created through the merger of two former parishes with holdings of Catholic records about Ojibwa Indians -- Holy Family Church, Cloquet, and Sacred Heart Church, Duluth, Minnesota.
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1835-1843 |
Detroit diocesan priests (Archives: Detroit, Michigan) at St. Joseph’s, La Pointe, Wisconsin, visited the Fond du Lac Reservation (Ojibwa), Minnesota |
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1843-1860 |
Milwaukee diocesan priests (Archives: Milwaukee, Wisconsin) at St. Joseph’s, La Pointe, Wisconsin, visited the Fond du Lac Reservation (Ojibwa), Minnesota |
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1860-1872 |
La Crosse diocesan priests (Archives: La Crosse, Wisconsin) at Holy Family, Bayfield, Wisconsin, attended to the Fond du Lac Reservation station |
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1872-1882 |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Archives: Washington, D.C.) at Sacred Heart, Duluth, Minnesota, attended to the Fond du Lac Reservation station |
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1880-1882 |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Sacred Heart, Duluth, Minnesota, attended to Holy Family Mission, Cloquet |
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1882-1894 |
Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Francis Xavier, Superior, Wisconsin, attended to Holy Family Mission, Cloquet, and the Fond du Lac Reservation station |
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1894-1896 |
Benedictines (St. John's Abbey) (Archives: Collegeville, Minnesota) at Immaculate Conception, Red Lake, Minnesota, attended to Holy Family Mission, Cloquet, and the Fond du Lac Reservation station |
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1896-2010s (closed) |
Benedictines administered Holy Family Church |
Benedictines at Holy Family, Cloquet, attended to the following Native American (Ojibwa) missions in Minnesota:
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1896-1901 (closed) |
Lake Winnibigoshish station, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1896-1901 (closed) |
White Oak Point station |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Kettle River station |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Sandy Lake station |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Stoney Brook and Columbia Junction station |
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1896-1906 |
Ball Club station, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1896-1911 (closed) |
Fond du Lac Reservation station |
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1896-1912 |
Brookston station, Fond du Lac Reservation |
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1896-1922 (closed) |
Sawyer station |
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1898-1901 (closed) |
Pokegama station |
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1898-1905 (transferred to St. Theodore's, Ponsford) |
Cass Lake station, Leech Lake Reservation
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1906-1912 (transferred to St. Theodore's, Ponsford) |
St. Ann Mission, Ball Club, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1907-1911 (closed) |
Beaver Bay station |
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1907-1933 (became a parish) |
St. John the Baptist/ St. Francis Xavier Mission, Grand Marais |
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1907-1933 (transferred to St. John the Baptist, Grand Marais) |
Holy Rosary Mission, Grand Portage |
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1912-1980s (closed) |
St. Patrick Mission, Brookston, Fond du Lac Reservation |
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1915-1917 |
Nett Lake Reservation station |
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1917-1923 (transferred to Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Ontario, Canada) |
Immaculate Conception Mission, Nett Lake, Nett Lake Reservation |
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1934-1945 (transferred to St. Charles, Cass Lake) |
St. Joseph Mission, Mission Corner |
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1934-1945 (transferred to St. Charles, Cass Lake) |
St. Catherine Mission, Cass Lake, Leech Lake Reservation |
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1947-present |
Ss. Mary and Joseph Mission, Sawyer |
From Sacred Heart, Duluth, Oblates of Mary Immaculate attended the following Ojibwa Indian mission and station:
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1872-1882 (transferred to St. Francis Xavier, Superior, Wisconsin) |
Fond du Lac Reservation station, Minnesota |
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1880-1882 (transferred to St. Francis Xavier, Superior, Wisconsin) |
Holy Family Mission, Cloquet, Fond du Lac Reservation, Minnesota |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1872-1882, 1905-ongoing
Volume: At least 2 cubic feet
Description: The records at Holy Family Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980. Consequently, the description is by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1872-1882, 1905-ongoing
Volume: 9 volumes
Description:
A. For the Fond du Lac station and Holy Family Mission, previously at Sacred Heart, Cloquet, 1872-1882, 1 volume
B. For the former Holy Family and its Ojibwa Indian missions, 1905-2010s, at least 8 volumes; records for 1896-1905 were destroyed by a fire in 1918
C. Records for the current Holy Family Church, 2010s-ongoing, volume unknown
/2 "Status Animarum" or census records
Inclusive dates: 1930s
Volume: 2 volumes
Description: For the former Holy Family and its Ojibwa Indian missions; 1 volume was created by Rev. Simon Lampe, O.S.B., in the 1930s and includes names of parents and children with birth and death dates; the other volume was created in ca. 1939 and includes names of parents and children with birth, baptism, and death dates.
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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