GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-15
St. Michael Church
N816 Highway 47/55
P.O. Box 610
Keshena, WI 54135
Phone: 715-799-3811
Email: stmichaels@livingwaterslivingfaith.org
History: St. Michael Church, Keshena, Menominee Nation, Wisconsin, has been a predominantly Native American (Menominee) parish in the Diocese of Green Bay (Archives: Green Bay, Wisconsin).
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1669-1707 |
French Jesuits (Archives: Vanves, France, and Montreal, Canada) visited the Menominee Indians in the Green Bay, Menominee River, and Oconto River areas |
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1823 |
Rev. Gabriel Richard, a Cincinnati diocesan priest from St. Anne Church, Detroit, Michigan, visited the Menominee Indians in the Green Bay area |
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1825-1828 |
Rev. Joseph Badin, a Cincinnati diocesan priest from St. Joseph Church, Pokagon, Michigan, visited the Menominee Indians in the Green Bay area |
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1828 |
Rev. P.S. DeJean, a Cincinnati diocesan priest from Arbre Croche, Michigan, visited the Menominee Indians in the Green Bay area |
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1830-1838 |
Rev. Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P.[Dominicans], and other Dominicans, and Redemptorists from St. John the Evangelist Church, Green Bay, visited the nearby Menominee Indians |
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1831-ca. 1836 |
An Indian School in Green Bay served the Menominee Indians |
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1836-1843 |
St. John Neopomucene Church and School, Little Chute, served the Menominee Indians |
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1843-1852 |
Rev. Florimond J. Bonduel, a Milwaukee diocesan priest, established and administered St. Francis Xavier Mission and School (Menominee), Lake Poygan, a temporary reservation |
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1852-1854 |
The Menominee Indians moved temporarily to the Oconto River |
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1853-1857 |
Rev. Otto Skolla, a Milwaukee diocesan priest, established and administered St. Michael Mission (Menominee), Keshena/ Wolf River, Menominee Reservation |
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1859-1869 |
Capuchins (unknown) attended St. Michael's intermittently |
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Ca. 1869-1872 |
Green Bay diocesan priests attended St. Michael's from parishes at Duck Creek, New London, and Oconto |
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1872-1880 |
Became a parish; resident Green Bay diocesan priests administered St. Michael's Church |
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1880-1980 |
Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) administered St. Michael’s |
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1881-1980 (closed) |
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (St. Louis Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and staffed St. Joseph’s School (Menominee, Oneida, Stockbridge) |
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1980-present |
Green Bay diocesan priests have administered St. Michael’s |
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2010s-present |
Parishioners founded and maintain a Kateri circle prayer group |
Green Bay diocesan priests, 1876-1880, and Franciscans, 1880-1980, from St. Michael's attended the following missions and stations among the Menominee and Stockbridge Indians:
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1876-1954 (closed) |
Our Lady of the Woods/ St. Mary of the Woods/ Our Lady of Sorrows Mission (Menominee), Kenepoway/ West Branch, Menominee Reservation |
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1874-before 2000 (closed) |
St. Joseph of the Lake Mission (Menominee), Little Oconto/ South Branch, Menominee Reservation |
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1882-1894 (became a mission) |
Stockbridge Reservation station |
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1894-1928 (closed) |
Holy Angels/ St. Mary Mission (Stockbridge), Red Springs, Stockbridge Reservation |
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1909-1931 (became a parish) |
St. Anthony Mission (Menominee), Neopit, Menominee Reservation |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1880-ongoing
Volume: Over 6 cubic feet
Description: The records at St. Michael Church were not arranged according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980. Consequently, the records are described by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1880-ongoing
Volume: 19 volumes
Description: baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1880-present; first communions, 1881-present; confirmations, 1882-present; includes St. Joseph of the Lake Mission, Little Oconto/ South Branch, 1877-before 2000, and some baptisms from Immaculate Conception Church, Oneida, 1890-1897
/2 School records
Inclusive dates: 1883-1980
Volume: 3 cubic feet
Description: Student record cards arranged alphabetically by surname; cards typically include biographical data, attendance, grades, test scores, and "personality evaluations."
/3 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1930s-ongoing
Volume: Over 160 prints
/4 Parish Bulletin
Inclusive dates: 1957-ongoing
Volume: 1.5 cubic feet
/5 Website
Inclusive dates: 2010-present
Volume: Cumulative
Description: Includes selected content, 2010-present, and weekly bulletins, 2018-present
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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