GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-23
University of Oklahoma. Western Historical Collections
Monnet Hall, Room 452
630 Parrington OvalNorman, OK 73019
Phone: 405-325-3641
Email: See website
Hours: See website
Access: No restrictions
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1870s-1950s
Volume: Ca. .2 cubic foot
Description: Within 6 collections.
/1 "Indian-Pioneer Papers"
Inclusive dates: 1937
Volume: Ca. .1 cubic foot
Description: 112 volumes of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Works Progress Administration workers in 1937, which include the following references to Catholic missions/ missionaries and schools serving Native Americans:
A. "Anadarko, St. Patrick’s Mission and School," 20 references
B. "Antlers, St. Agnes Mission and School," 5 references
C. "Pawhuska, St. Louis School," 9 references
D. "Purcell, St. Elizabeth’s School," 6 references
E. "Quapaw, St. Mary's Mission and School," 8 references
F. "Sacred Heart [Konawa], Sacred Heart Mission and Schools," 20 references
/2 Newspapers and Periodicals
Inclusive dates: 1888-1931
Volume: 6 reels of microfilm
Description:
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>A. Indian Advocate, 1888-1910, 3 reels: publication of Sacred Heart Mission, Oklahoma</p>
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>B. The Indian Sentinel, 1902-1931, 3 reels: publication of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, D.C.</p>
/3 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1892-1923, undated
Volume: 13 prints
Description: Missions and schools in Oklahoma.
A. Anadarko, St. Patrick Mission and School, 1899, 1909-1910, 1912, 4 prints
B. Antlers, St. Agnes Mission and School, undated, 1 print
C. Quapaw, St. Mary Mission and School, 1905-1907, 1923, 4 prints
D. Sacred Heart [Konawa], Sacred Heart Mission, 1892, 4 prints
/4 “Rose M. Wyatt Collection”
Inclusive dates: 1886-1889
Volume: 6 letters
Description: To Mrs. Wyatt from religious sisters [Sisters of Mercy] at St. Mary Academy, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma.
/5 “Sacred Heart Abbey Collection”
Inclusive dates: 1909-1933
Volume: 1 reel of microfilm
Description: “Annals of Sacred Heart Abbey (Konawa, Oklahoma), 1876-1933,” written ca.1909-1933, 161 pages; and “Reminiscences of Brother John Laracy,” O.S.B., 1933, 13 pages.
/6 Thomas, Sister Ursula
Inclusive dates: 1939
Volume: 1 reel of microfilm
Description: Dissertation by Sister Ursula Thomas, The Catholic Church on the Oklahoma Frontier, 1824-1907.
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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