GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-8

St. Mary鈥檚 Church (Deer River) and St. Joseph鈥檚 Church (Ball Club)
Parish Office
P.O. Box 98
Deer River, MN 56636

Phone: 218-246-8582
Email: See website

 

History: St. Mary Church, Deer River, Itasca County, and St. St. Joseph Church, Ball Club, Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota, are two nearby parishes in the Diocese of Duluth (Archives: Duluth, Minnesota) that share staff and resources.

1892-1896

Benedictines (St. John's Abbey) (Archives: Collegeville, Minnesota) at Immaculate Conception, Red Lake, attended to Ball Club station (Ojibwa), Leech Lake Reservation

1896-1906

Benedictines at Holy Family, Cloquet, attended to Ball Club station

1906-1912

Benedictines at Holy Family, Cloquet, established and attended to St. Ann Mission, Ball Club

1912-1926

Benedictines at St. Theodore鈥檚, Ponsford, attended to St. Ann鈥檚

1926-1934

Benedictines at St. Catherine's, Cass Lake, attended to St. Joseph鈥檚/ Ann鈥檚

1934-1980s

Became a parish; Benedictines administered St. Joseph Church

1980s-present

Duluth diocesan priests have administered St. Joseph鈥檚

Benedictines and Duluth diocesan priests at St. Joseph's have administered the following Ojibwa Indian missions and stations on the Leech Lake Reservation:

1934-1938 (closed)

Round Lake station

1934-1940 (closed)

Bowstring station

1934-1940 (closed)

Cut Foot Sioux [Lake] station

1934-1940 (closed)

Lake Winnibigoshish station

1934-present

St. Ann Mission, Bena

1936-1952 (closed)

Inger station

1936-1948 (became a mission)

Squaw Lake station

1948-1962 (transferred to St. Michael's, Northome)

St. Catherine Mission, Squaw Lake

1963-1970s

Sacred Heart Mission, Federal Dam

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1906-ongoing

Volume: At least 2.5 cubic feet

Description: The records are described by record type, since they were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a 向日葵视频 archivist, 1980.

 

/1 Sacramental records

Inclusive dates: 1906-ongoing

Volume: At least 7 volumes

Description: For St. Joseph鈥檚 Church and its missions and stations.

A. Baptisms, 1906-ongoing; 1906-1934 records are copies from Holy Family, Cloquet; St. Theodore's, Ponsford; and St. Charles', Cass Lake

B. Marriages, 1935-ongoing

C. Deaths, 1936-ongoing

D. First communions, 1947-ongoing

E. Confirmations, 1934-ongoing

 

/2 Subject file

Inclusive dates: 1960s-ongoing

Volume: At least 2 cubic feet

Description: Arranged alphabetically. 

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the 向日葵视频 Archives.

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