GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-19
Viterbo University. Archives
900 Viterbo Drive
La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-796-3262
Email: See website
Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1896-1954, undated
Volume: Ca. 1 cubic foot
Description: When reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980, these records were held by the Viterbo University Museum and not organized according to a classification scheme. Consequently, the description is by record type.
/1 "W.P.A. Indian Research Project"
Inclusive dates: 1935-1930s
Volume: .5 cubic foot
Description: The project was funded by a U.S. Works Progress Administration grant, 1935, and implemented by Ojibwa Indians under the direction of Sister Macaria Murphy, F.S.P.A., who taught at St. Mary's School, Odanah. Interviews and questionnaires played a prominent role in the Project. The collection is arranged by subject and was microfilmed by the Marquette University Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1983. Prominent subject headings include: "History of the Ojibwa Indians"; "Chippewa Indian Customs"; "Occupations and Activities"; "Clothing"; "Amusements"; "Recollections and Biographies"; "Legends"; "Military-War Records"; "Treaties and Tribal Claims"; "Folk Lore and Local History of the Bad River Reservation"; and "Chippewa Language, Leaders, and Folk Lore"
/2 Correspondence
Inclusive dates: 1896, 1910, 1915, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1943-1944, 1954
Volume: 13 letters
Description: Major correspondents included Sister Macaria Murphy, F.S.P.A., and Rev. Philip Gordon (Ojibwa)
/3 School publications
Inclusive dates: 1908, undated
Volume: 2 volumes:
A. Noble Lives of a Noble Race, stories from Ojibwa oral traditions with illustrations by the students of St. Mary's School, Odanah, published in 1908: manuscript and published copy
B. Hiawatha Told Again, by the pupils of St. Mary's School, Odanah, undated
/4 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1907, 1918, 1926, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1943-1944, undated
Volume: ca. 150 photos
Description: Includes a sequence of prints depicting the construction of a birchbark canoe, which Peter Whitebird used in creating his series of oil paintings.
/5 Paintings and Etchings by Peter Whitebird
Inclusive dated: Undated
Volume: 24 oil paintings and 23 etching
Description: Depict scenes from Ojibwa culture, including the building of a birch bark canoe.
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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