GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-63

Sacred Heart Church
9 County Road 6820
Waterflow, NM 87421

Phone: 505-598-5454

 

History: Sacred Heart Church and Waterflow Academy, Waterflow, San Juan County, New Mexico, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish and school with some Native American (Navajo) parishioners in the Diocese of Gallup (Archives: Gallup, New Mexico).

1948-1952	Students (Navajo) from Christ the King, Shiprock, attended the parish’s Sacred Heart Academy, Waterflow
1996-2002 (closed)	Gallup diocesan priests at Sacred Heart established and attended to the San Juan Catholic Center (Navajo), Kirtland, New Mexico

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1947-ongoing  

Volume: Few entries among several volumes

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

 

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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