GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Montana: MT-9

St. Gabriel Church
152 Eighth Avenue
P.O. Box 1089
Chinook, MT 59523

Phone: 406-357-2073

 

History: St. Gabriel Church, Chinook, Blaine County, Montana, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings (Archives: Billings, Montana). Great Falls-Billings diocesan priests at St. Gabriel’s have administered the sacramental records for St. Thomas the Apostle/ St. Stephen’s Church, Harlem, Blaine County, Montana, also a predominantly non-Native American parish. Jesuits (Turin, California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Thomas had attended to Our Lady of Lourdes/ St. Ursula Mission (Assiniboine, Sisseton), Poplar, Fort Peck Reservation, 1909-1913 (became a parish).

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1943-1985   

Volume: Several entries within 2 volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Mission.

For additional sacramental records of Our Lady of Lourdes Mission -- see -- the repository entry for St. Raphael Church, Glasgow, Montana.

 

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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