GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-1
Our Lady of the Lake Church. Ashland-Bayfield Counties Catholic Community
106 North Second Avenue, East
Ashland, WI 54806
Phone: 715-682-7620
Email: ollcatholicchurch@ourladycc.org
History: Our Lady of the Lake Church and School, Ashland, Ashland and Bayfield Counties, Wisconsin, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Superior (Archives: Superior, Wisconsin). Our Lady of the Lake was formed through the merger of two parishes, one of which was St. Agnes Church, Ashland, which had some Ojibwa Indian parishioners.
St. Agnes Church, Ashland:
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1872-1886 |
La Crosse Diocesan priests at Christ Church, Bayfield, attended first Ashland station and then St. Agnes Mission, Ashland |
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1886-1990 (Ojibwa, in part, to 1910s) |
Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) administered St. Agnes |
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1990-present |
Franciscans have administered Our Lady of the Lake Church and School, Ashland |
Franciscans at St. Agnes attended these missions and stations among the Ojibwa Indians:
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1886-1894 (became a mission) |
Lac du Flambeau Reservation station |
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1892-1899 (transferred to St. Louis, Washburn) |
Drummond station |
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1892-1918 (transferred to St. Francis Solanus, Reserve) |
Holy Angels Mission, Mud Lake |
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1894-1903 (no longer Native) |
Yellow Lake station |
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1894-1904 (became a mission) |
Trade River station |
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1894-1905 (transferred to St. Mary's, Bruce) |
St. Joseph Mission, Bellilfalls |
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1894-1906 (transferred to St. Mary of Good Counsel, Solon Springs) |
St. Mary of the Angels Mission, Gordon |
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1894-1906 (became a parish) |
St. Mary of Good Counsel Mission, Solon Springs/ White Birch |
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1894-1918 (transferred to St. Francis Solanus, Reserve) |
St. Anthony of Padua Mission, Lac du Flambeau, Lac du Flambeau Reservation |
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1894-1918 (transferred to St. Francis Solanus, Reserve) |
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission, Mouth of Yellow River |
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1894-1918 (became a parish) |
St. Francis Solanus Mission, Reserve, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation |
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1894-1922 (transferred to St. Francis Solanus, Reserve) |
St. Anthony of Padua Mission, Pakwawong, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation |
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1895 (transferred to St. Francis Solanus, Reserve) |
St. Joseph Mission, Lac du Flambeau, Lac du Flambeau Reservation |
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1895-1899 (closed) |
Apple River station |
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1895-1906 (closed) |
Wolf’s Creek station |
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1895-1910 (closed) |
Bashaw station |
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1897-1908 (transferred to Holy Family, Bayfield) |
Balsam Lake station |
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1897-1910 (became a mission) |
Springbrook station |
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1899-1904 (closed) |
Eureka station |
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1899-1905 (transferred to St. Mary's, Cumberland) |
Clam Falls station |
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1899-1906 (closed) |
Superior Junction station |
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1902-1912 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Hayward) |
Hayward Government Indian School, Hayward |
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1904-1906 (closed) |
Luck station |
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1904-1910 (closed) |
Loon Lake station |
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1904-1910 (closed) |
Sacred Heart Mission, Trade River |
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1905-1910 (closed) |
Arbuckle station |
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1910-1912 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Hayward) |
St. Mary Magdalene Mission, Springbrook |
St. Mary’s/ Our Lady of Seven Dolors Mission, Odanah, Bad River Reservation:
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1855-1860 |
Rev. Augustu Van Parmel from St. Joseph Church, La Pointe, visited the Bad River Reservation (Ojibwa) |
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1860-1886 |
Diocesan priests (Milwaukee to 1868, then La Crosse Diocese) at Christ Church, Bayfield, attended first the Bad River Reservation station and then St. Mary/ Our Lady of Seven Dolors Mission, Odanah, Bad River Reservation |
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1883-1969 (closed) |
Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration (Archives: La Crosse, Wisconsin) administered and staffed St. Mary School, Odanah |
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1886-1954 |
Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Agnes attended St. Mary/ Our Lady of Seven Dolors Mission |
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1954-1969 |
Franciscans from St. Mary/ Our Lady of Seven Dolors Church administered St. Mary's |
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1969-1977 |
Franciscans from St. Agnes attended St. Mary’s |
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1977-1990s |
Superior diocesan priests at St. Anthony of Padua, Lac du Flambeau, attended St. Mary’s |
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1990s-present |
Franciscans at Our Lady of the Lake, Ashland, have attended St. Mary’s |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1884-ongoing, undated
Volume: Over 1.6 cubic feet
Description: When reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980, the records at St. Agnes Church were not arranged according to a classification scheme. Consequently, the records are described by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1884-ongoing
Volume: 1.5 cubic feet
Description: Records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials):
A. Ashland, Our Lady of the Lake Church, 1990-present, few volumes
B. Ashland, St. Agnes Church, 1886-1990, several volumes: for St. Agnes and its Indian missions and stations
C. Odanah, St. Mary/ Our Lady of Seven Dolors Mission, 1884-present, 11 volumes: baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1884-present; first communions, 1899-present; confirmations, 1898-present
/2 Historical notes
Inclusive dates: 1930s-1970s, undated
Volume: 2 folders
Description:
A. Works Progress Administration Indian Research Project, 1936-1940, comprised of Bad River Indian Reservation oral history recollections compiled by student of St. Mary School under the direction of Sister Macaria Murphy, F.S.P.A.; includes the origin of the Dream Dance (Big Drum) religion with the vision by Wiyaka Sinte Win (Tail Feather Woman) (Dakota) after 1862. The Marquette University Archives borrowed and copied the project records as the W.P.A. Indian Research Project Collection; two reels of microfilm; see Marquette Archives, Search the Collections for more information.
B. Excerpts from "Indian Missions of the Lake Superior Region" by Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst, O.F.M., a biographical sketch of Rev. John Gafron, O.F.M., by Rev. Casimir Vogt, O.F.M., and clippings regarding missions among Native Americans in northern Wisconsin.
/3 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1960s-1970s
Volume: 40 prints
Description: Prints of St. Mary Mission, Odanah, and St. Agnes Church, Ashland.
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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