GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
South Dakota: SD-32
St. Peter Church and St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church
619 North Main Avenue (physical address)
525 East Chestnut Street (mailing address)
Sisseton, SD 57262
Phone: 605-698-7206
Email: sissetoncath.office@gmail.com
History: St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church and St. Peter Church, Sisseton, Roberts County, South Dakota, have been two mixed Native (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) and non-Native American parishes on the Lake Traverse Reservation and in the Diocese of Sioux Falls (Archives: Sioux Falls, South Dakota). They share offices and staff.
History of St. Catherine Church and the Lake Traverse Reservation
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1883-1886 |
Sioux Falls diocesan priests visited the Lake Traverse/ Sisseton Reservation (Sisseton-Wahpeton) from St. John’s, Wahpeton, North Dakota |
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1886-ca. 1890 |
St. Paul (Minnesota) diocesan priests visited the reservation from St. Mary's, Beardsley, Minnesota 1894-1906 Diocesan priests established and attended St. Andrew Mission, Veblen, from Sisseton |
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1895-1904 |
Ursulines (unknown) established and staffed St. Andrew School, Sisseton |
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1901 |
Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Sisseton, was built |
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1906-1913 |
Sioux Falls diocesan priests attended St. Matthew/ St. Andrew’s, Veblen, from St. John’s, Britton, South Dakota |
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1913-1915 |
Became a parish; Sioux Falls diocesan priests administered St. Matthew Church |
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1923-1965 (closed) |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate established and attended St. Benedict Mission, Peevey Ranch |
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1935-1938 (closed) |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate established and attended Our Lady of the Snows Mission |
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1956-present |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate established and attended St. Joseph Mission, Pickeral Lake |
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1958-present |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate established and administered St. Catherine Mission, Sisseton |
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1962-present |
Oblates of Mary Immaculate established and administered St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church |
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1979-1989 |
Sister Irene (Kathryn) De Marrais, S.D.S. [Sisters of the Divine Savior] (Sisseton and Wahpeton), established and administered the Johnson O’Malley Pre-School |
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2000s-present |
Sioux Falls diocesan priests have administered St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church and have attended to St. Peter Church and the Tekakwitha Living Center |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1895-omgoing
Volume: At least .3 cubic foot
Description: The records at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980. Consequently, the description is by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1895- ongoing
Volume: At least 3 volumes
Description: For St. Catherine Mission, St. Matthew/ St. Andrew Mission, St. Benedict Mission, Our Lady of the Snows Mission, and St. Joseph Mission; baptisms, 1895-ongoing; marriages, 1900- ongoing; deaths 1956- ongoing; first communions, 1944- ongoing
/2 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1976-ongoing
Volume: At least 2 scrapbooks containing 175 prints
Description: Subjects include "summer camp" and various festivals and celebrations.
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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