GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-21
Sacred Heart Church
2515 North Main Street
Miami, OK 74354
Phone: 918-542-5281
Email: sacredheartmiami@cableone.net
History: Sacred Heart Church, Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma). Sacred Heart has administered the archival records of the closed, St. Mary of the Quapaws Church, Quapaw, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
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1847-1887
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Jesuits (Missouri Mission) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at Osage Mission, Kansas, attended to the Quapaw Indians |
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1847-1870
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Quapaw Indian children attended the Osage Indian Manual Labor School, Osage Mission, Kansas |
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1887-1888 |
Wichita diocesan priests at Sacred Heart, Chetopa, Kansas, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station (Quapaw) |
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1888-1889
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Benedictines (Archives: Shawnee, Oklahoma) at St. John’s, McAlester, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1889-1890 |
An Oklahoma City diocesan priest at Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1890-1892 |
Benedictines at St. John’s, McAlester, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1890-1892 (closed) |
A lay teacher established and administered St. Ann School, (Quapaw) Paar Creek, Quapaw Reservation, Ottawa County |
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1892-1893 |
An Oklahoma City diocesan priest at Assumption Church, Muskogee, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests established and administered St. Mary of the Quapaws Church and School, Quapaw |
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1893-1904 |
Sisters of St. Joseph (unknown) staffed St. Mary School |
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1904-1927 (closed) |
Sisters of Divine Providence (San Antonio, Texas) staffed St. Mary School |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at St. Mary's attended to the following stations and missions among Native Americans in Oklahoma:
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Peoria Reservation station (Peoria), Ottawa County |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Ottawa Reservation station (Ottawa), Ottawa County |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Seneca Reservation station (Seneca), Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Wyandot Reservation station (Wyandotte), Ottawa County |
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1893-1898 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
Afton station (Cherokee), Ottawa County |
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1893-1909 (closed) |
Leonard Settlement station (Cherokee, Creek), Tulsa County, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Modoc Reservation station (Modoc), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Fairland station (Cherokee), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Little Five Miles station (Quapaw), Ottawa County |
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1893-1900 (became a mission) |
Miamitown station (Miami), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Peoria Reservation station (Peoria), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Wyandot Reservation station (Wyandotte), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Seneca Reservation station (Seneca), Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Shawnee Reservation station (Shawnee), Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Ottawa Reservation station (Ottawa), Ottawa County |
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1896-1899 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
Welch station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Bluejacket station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Eagle station (Cherokee) [unknown] |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Kennison station (Cherokee) [unknown] |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Russell Creek station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1900-1927 (became a parish) (no longer Native) |
Sacred Heart Mission (Miami), Miami/ Miamitown, Ottawa County |
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1902-1915 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
St. Mathias Mission (Cayuga), Cayuga, Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1910-1927 (closed) |
Four Mile Creek station (Cherokee), Canadian County |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1847-1927, undated
Volume: .3 cubic foot
Description: The records at Sacred Heart Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by Marquette University archivists, 1980. Consequently, description is by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1847-1927
Volume: 3 volumes
Description: Records for Native American parishioners of St. Mary's of the Quapaws Mission and its missions and stations; baptisms, 1847-1927, marriages, 1894-1927, deaths, 1912-1927, first communions, 1914-1918, 1925, and confirmations, 1915-1925
/2 "Documents, historical and ethnographic data"
Inclusive dates: 1894-1908, undated
Volume: 1 volume
Description: Contains lists of Quapaw children attending the Osage Mission School in St. Paul, Kansas, priests who attended the Quapaw Indians, and marriages, 1894-1908
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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