GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Montana: MT-36

Immaculate Conception Church
513 Dawson Street
P.O. Box 789
Wolf Point, MT 59201

Phone: 406-653-2610

 

History: Immaculate Conception Church, Wolf Point, Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, has been a predominantly Native American (Assiniboine, Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota, Métis) parish in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings (Archives: Great Falls, Montana).

1865-1913	Jesuits (Turin, California Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) visited the Fort Peck Reservation
1913-1917	Benedictines (Innsbruck Abbey) (Archives: Tyrol, Austria) at Our Lady of Lourdes, Poplar, established and attended to Immaculate Conception Mission
1917-1931	Became a parish; Benedictines administered Immaculate Conception Church
1931-present	Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests have administered Immaculate Conception
1949-1973 (closed)	Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (Archives: Leavenworth, Kansas) staffed Immaculate Conception School

Benedictines and Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception attended to the following Native American (Assiniboine, Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota) missions on the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana: 

1917-1931 (closed)	St. Joseph Mission, Frazer
ca. 1980 (became a parish)	Our Lady of Lourdes Mission, Poplar

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1917-ongoing

Volume: At least 5 volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages,  burials; some copies) for Native American parishioners of Immaculate Conception Church and its attended missions.

 

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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