GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Montana: MT-32

Sacred Heart Church
325 Round Butte Road West
Ronan, MT 59864

Phone: 406 676-4511

 

History: Sacred Heart Church, Ronan, Flathead Reservation, Montana, has been a mixed Native (Kootenai, Salish) and non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings (Archives: Great Falls, Montana). 

1911-1914	Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception, Polson, established and attended to Sacred Heart Church
1914-present	Became a parish; Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests have administered Sacred Heart
1940-present	Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests at Sacred Heart have attended to St. Joseph Mission (Kootenai, Salish), Charlo, Flathead Reservation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1914-ongoing

Volume: Few entries among several volumes 

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

 

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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