GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
South Dakota: SD-10
Catholic Church. Diocese of Rapid City. Sioux Spiritual Center
20100 Center Road
Howes, SD 57748
Phone: 605-985-5906
Email: ssc@diorc.org
History: The Diocese of Rapid City (Archives: Rapid City, South Dakota) has administered the Sioux Spiritual Center, Howes, Meade County, South Dakota.
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1973-present |
Jesuits (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri), under the auspices of the Diocese of Rapid City and with support from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (Archives: Milwaukee, Wisconsin), established and have administered the diocese’s permanent deaconate program |
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1977-2018 |
Jesuits, under the auspices of the Diocese of Rapid City and with support from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, established and administered the Sioux Spiritual Center as a spiritual retreat and education facility for Native American Catholics across North America (e.g. Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwa) |
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2018-present |
The Center hired a non-Native lay director and opened its programs to non-Native Catholics while retaining a “preferential option” for the spiritual needs of Native American Catholics |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: Current records only. The Marquette University Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serves as the archival repository for the Sioux Spiritual Center.
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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