GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-49
Museum of New Mexico. Fray Ang茅lico Ch谩vez History Library and Photographic Archives
120 Washington Avenue
P.O. Box 2087
Santa Fe, NM 87504
Phone 505-476-5090
Alternative website: Rocky Mountain Online Archive
Hours: See website
Access: No restrictions
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1551-1996, undated
Volume: Ca. 6 cubic feet
Description: 11 collections include Native Catholic records.
/1 鈥淎dolph Bandelier Collection, AC 012鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1880-1914
Volume: Few items
Description: Correspondence, journals, and published and unpublished manuscripts by Bandelier and his wife Fanny Ritter Bandelier; re: Indians and missions in Arizona and New Mexico and Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico; also drafts of manuscripts prepared for Pope Leo XIII: a 鈥淗istory of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Zuni, New Mexico鈥� and a 鈥淗istory of the Colonization of the Missions.鈥�
/2 鈥淟ansing B. Bloom Collection, AC 020鈥�
Inclusive dates: Between 1551-1940
Volume: Few items
Description: A report (copy) translated into English re: activities of Fray Alonso Benavides, O.F.M. in New Mexico, and notes detailing Franciscan missionaries in New Mexico to 1851; primarily from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, and the Bibloteca Archignasio Mezzofanti-Manoscritti, Bologna, Italy.
/3 鈥淔ray Ang茅lico Ch谩vez Collection, AC 040鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1929-1996
Volume: Ca. 2 cubic feet
Description: Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, and biographical notes by Fray Ang茅lico Ch谩vez, O.F.M. [Franciscans], re: San Felipe, Santo Domingo and Cochiti Pueblos [Keresan] and Franciscans and the Catholic Church in New Mexico.
/4 鈥淐onsuelo and Nora Ch谩vez Collection, AC 287鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1927-1996
Volume: Approximately 1.5 cubic feet
Description: Primarily the life and early career of Fray Ang茅lico Ch谩vez, O.F.M. [Franciscans]
/5 鈥淐oeur d'Alene Indian Picture Book Collection, AC 045鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1908, undated (18鈥�)
Volume: 1 volume with letter
Description: Notebook of pencil drawings depicting people and Catholic symbols attributed to an unknown Coeur d鈥橝lene Indian artist with transmittal letter from donor Mrs. C.K. Smith to Edgar Hewett, U.S. Bureau of Ethnology.
/6 鈥淛ohn L. Kessel Collection, AC 122鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1582-1981
Volume: Ca. 1 cubic foot
Description: Records (mostly copies) from the Archivo General de la Naci贸n, Mexico City, Mexico and Kessel鈥檚 manuscript, re: the 鈥淪alinas missions in New Mexico [Piro, Tiwa]: La Natividad de Nue stra Se帽ora de Chilili, San Gregorio de Ab贸, San Miguel de Tajique, Nuestra Se帽ora de la Pur铆sima Concepci贸n de Quarai and San Isidro/ San Buenaventura de Las Humanas (Gran Quivira).鈥�
/7 鈥淔ather Juan Miguel Menchero Collection, AC 146-P鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1752鈥�1968
Volume: 1 folder
Description: Correspondence (includes copies) by Fray Menchero, O.F.M. to/from Captain Tom谩s Velez Cachupin of New Mexico, re: request and agreement to assist in constructing Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Anthony Missions (Tiwa), Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico.
/8 鈥淢ission at Old Acoma Foundation Records, AC 342鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1988-1992
Volume: Ca. .5 cubic foot
Description: Meeting agendas, schedules, correspondence, financial reports, and isometric drawings, re: restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission (Tewa), Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico.
/9 鈥淢auro Montoya Collection, AC 152鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1709-1949
Volume: 5 folders
Description: Franciscans and Native Americans in New Mexico:
A. 鈥淟ist of Franciscan Priests,鈥� Sept. 1694, Folder A-2: Names of the priests assigned to various pueblos
B. 鈥淧rayerbook,鈥� 1709 reprint, Folder A-3: Manuel de Exercisios Para los Desagravios de Christo Senor N. Dedicado Al Gloriso, Patriarcha San Joseph
C. 鈥淟etter from Father Antonio Jose Martinze, Taos to Prefect Pablo Gallegos,鈥� May 11, 1846, Folder 15: Complaint and response, re: Jos茅 Maria Valdez
D. 鈥淢edical Report and Records,鈥� August 1915, Folder 9: Postmortem examination of Rev. Juan Francisco Padilla, Isleta, New Mexico
E. 鈥淟etters of Amado Chavez to Governor L.B. Prince,鈥� January 18-19, 1915, Folder 10: 2 letters, re: Rev. Juan Francisco Padilla, his death, reburial, and exhumation
/10 鈥淲.P.A. New Mexico Collection, AC 228鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1936-1940
Volume: 6 manuscripts
Description: Accounts collected by the Federal Writer鈥檚 Project of the Works Progress Administration in New Mexico:
A. 5-4-15 #1, 鈥淭he Acoma Pueblo,鈥� undated: Building Acoma Mission and the Enchanted Mesa as told by Charles Lummis and Mr. Stallings to B.A. Reuter
B. 5-5-3 #3, 鈥淐onclusions of the Ecclesiastical Commission that investigated an apparition of the body of Father Juan Francisco Padilla [O.F.M.] at Isleta;鈥� translation of an 1896 newspaper account collected by Simeon Tejada
C. 5-5-50 #16, 鈥淗ands that Built America: the Missions:鈥� Spanish missionaries and how they taught various crafts to the Indians
D. 5-5-53 #12, 鈥淭he Old Church of Jemez:鈥� Account of the church structure
E. 5-4-15 #10, 鈥淎coma Pueblo:鈥� Attitudes toward the Catholic Church collected by B.A. Reuter
F. 5-5-9 #11, 鈥淗ow the Name Pecos may have Come to be Applied to the Pecos Pueblo and River:鈥� in part by Reverend Edward Paulhan, pastor at St. Anthony Padua Church, Pecos, collected by B.A. Reuter
/11 鈥淎rtwork and Engravings鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1850s-1898, undated
Volume: At least 15 items
Description: Missions and related Indian festivals in Arizona, Tucson, San Xavier del Bac Mission (Tohono O鈥檕dham, Pima); and New Mexico, Acoma Pueblo, San Estevan del Rey Mission (Tewa); Taos Pueblo, San Ger贸nimo Mission (Taos); and Zuni Pueblo, Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission (Zuni).
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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