GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-23

Wisconsin Historical Society. Archives Division
816 State Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Phone: 608-264-6460

 

Hours: See website 

Access: No restrictions

Copying facilities: Yes

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1830-1887, 1922

Volume: Ca. 40 items

Description: Within 3 collections.

 

/1 "Catholic Church in Wisconsin Papers"

Inclusive dates: 1835-1887

Volume: 1 reel of microfilm

Description: Includes a copy of sacramental records created by Rev. Frederic Baraga while among the Ojibwa Indians and Métis at St. Joseph's Church, La Pointe, and Christ Church, Bayfield, Wisconsin. Holy Family Church, Bayfield, holds the original records.

 

/2 "Grignon, Lawe, and Porlier Papers"

Inclusive dates: 1830-1840

Volume: Ca. 40 items

Description: The Collection contains correspondence and financial records relating to the mission and School among the Menominee Indians and Métis at Green Bay, and at St. John's Neopomucene Mission and School, Little Chute, Wisconsin. Major correspondents include Rev. Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rev. J.V. Badin, Rev. Francis Haetscher, and Rev. Theodore Van Den Broek.

 

/3 "Carlos Montezuma Papers"

Inclusive dates: 1922

Volume: 1 item

Description: Letter in microfilm reel 5 from the Catholic Church Extension Society to Rev. Philip B. Gordon (Ojibwa) regarding financial support for St. Francis Solanus Church (Ojibwa), Reserve (Stone Lake), Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Society microfilmed the collection.

 

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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