GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Montana: MT-18

St. Jude Church
440 Seventh Avenue
P.O. Box 407
Havre, MT 59501

Phone: 406-265-4261

 

History: St. Jude Church, Havre, Hill County, Montana, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Helena (Archives: Helena, Montana). Jesuits (Turin, California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Jude’s attended to the following Native American schools: 

1903-1906	Fort Peck Government Indian School (Assiniboine, Sisseton), Fort Peck Reservation
1929-1933 (transferred to St. Margaret’s, Big Sandy)	Rocky Boy Government Indian School (Cree, Ojibwa), Rocky Boy Reservation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1890-1944  

Volume: Several entries among 12 volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American students at the Fort Peck Government Indian School and the Rocky Boy Government Indian School.   

 

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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