GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-29

Immaculate Conception Church
1314 Lynn Avenue
Pawhuska, OK 74056

Phone: 918-287-1414
Email: See Tulsa diocesan website (parish finder)

 

History: Immaculate Conception Church, Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly Native American (Osage) parish in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma).

1887-1893

Benedictines (Archives: Shawnee, Oklahoma) established and administered Immaculate Conception Church (Osage), Pawhuska, Osage Nation

1887-1915

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia (Archives: Ashton, Pennsylvania) established and staffed St. Louis Girls Boarding School (e.g. Osage, Cherokee, Quapaw, Potawatomi), Pawhuska

1889

Fire destroyed St. Louis School, which was rebuilt and reopened the same year

1893-1972

Oklahoma City diocesan priests administered Immaculate Conception

1901-1913 (closed)

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia established and staffed St. Louis Girls Day School (e.g. Osage, Cherokee, Quapaw, Potawatomi), Pawhuska

1915-1942

Sisters of Loretto (Archives: Nerinx, Kentucky) staffed St. Louis Girls Boarding School

1922-1942

Sisters of Loretto established and staffed Immaculate Conception Day School

1942-1949 (closed)

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People (Archives: Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) staffed St. Louis School

1942-1969 (closed)

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament staffed Immaculate Conception School

1972-present

Tulsa diocesan priests have administered Immaculate Conception

Benedictines and Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception have attended to the following Native American missions and stations in Oklahoma:

1887-1888 (transferred to St. Elizabeth's, Purcell)

Kiowa and Comanche Reservation station (Kiowa, Comanche), Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Jefferson, Kiowa, Stephens, Tillman, and Washita Counties

1887-1889 (transferred to St. Mary's, Guthrie, and St. Joseph's, Oklahoma City)

Iowa Reservation station (Iowa), Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne Counties

1887-1889 (transferred to Quapaw Agency)

Peoria Reservation station (Peoria), Ottawa County

 

1887-1889 (transferred to St. Mary's, Guthrie, and St. Joseph's, Oklahoma City)

Otoe Reservation station (Otoe), Noble County

1887-1889 (transferred to Quapaw Agency)

Ottawa Reservation station (Ottawa), Ottawa County

1887-1889 (transferred to St. Mary's, Guthrie, and St. Joseph's, Oklahoma City)

Pawnee Reservation station (Pawnee), Noble, Pawnee, and Payne Counties

1887-1889 (transferred to St. Mary's, Guthrie, and St. Joseph's, Oklahoma City)

Ponca Reservation station (Ponca), Kay and Noble Counties

1887-1889 (became a mission)

Hominy Creek station (Osage), Osage Nation

1887-1893 (transferred to St. John's, Gray Horse)

Kaw Reservation station (Kansa), Kay County

1889-1908 (closed)

Caney Creek station (Osage), Osage Nation

1895-1921 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Skiatook)

Hominy station (Osage), Osage Nation

1889-1906 (became a parish) (no longer Native)

St. John Mission (Cherokee), Bartlesville, Washington County, Cherokee Nation

1889 (became a parish)

St. John Mission (Osage), Gray Horse/ Hominy Creek, Osage Nation

1900-1906 (closed)

Dewey station (Cherokee), Washington County, Cherokee Nation

1900-1921 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Skiatook)

Big Heart Settlement station (Osage), Osage Nation

1904-1905 (became a mission)

Cleveland station (Pawnee), Pawnee County

1904-1906 (transferred to St. John鈥檚, Gray Horse)

Fairfax station (Osage), Osage Nation

1904-1906 (closed)

Skiatook station (Osage), Osage Nation

1904-1906 (closed)

Washunga station (Kansa), Kay County

1905-1906 (transferred to St. John鈥檚, Bartlesville)

St. Joseph Mission (Pawnee), Cleveland

1906-1913 (transferred to St. John鈥檚, Pawnee)

Foraker station (Osage), Osage Nation

1911-1913 (transferred to St. John鈥檚, Pawnee)

St. Joseph Mission (Pawnee), Cleveland

1912-1921 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Skiatook)

Avant station (Osage), Osage Nation

1912-1921 (became a parish)

Skiatook station (Osage), Osage Nation

1915-1921 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Skiatook)

St. Joseph Mission (Pawnee), Cleveland

1915-1925 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Fairfax)

Immaculate Conception Mission (Osage), Foraker, Osage Nation

1915-1925 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Fairfax)

Burbank station (Osage), Osage Nation

1915-1925 (transferred to Sacred Heart, Fairfax)

Shidler station (Osage), Osage Nation

1926-1930 (became a mission)

Hominy station (Osage), Osage Nation

1930-1949 (became a parish)

St. Joseph Mission (Osage), Hominy, Osage Nation

1932-1949 (transferred to St. Joseph鈥檚 Hominy)

St. Joseph Mission (Pawnee), Cleveland

1980-present

St. Mary Mission (Osage), Barnsdell, Osage Nation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1887-ongoing

Volume: 2 cubic feet

Description: The records at Immaculate Conception Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a 向日葵视频 archivist, 1980. Consequently, the description is by record type.

 

 /1 Sacramental records

Inclusive dates: 1887-1908, 1922-ongoing

Volume: 9 volumes

Description: For Immaculate Conception Church and its Native missions and stations; baptisms, 1887-1808, 1925-ongoing, marriages, 1887-1907, 1922-ongoing, deaths, 1925-ongoing, first communions, 1895, 1898, 1925-ongoing, and confirmations, 1895-1900, 1925-ongoing; baptismal and death records for 1908-1925 were lost in a flood

 

/2 School records

Inclusive dates: 1887-1965

Volume: 1 cubic foot

Description: Student files for St. Louis and Immaculate Conception Schools, alphabetically arranged; majority are "permanent record" cards, one for each student, which include the following information: name, age, parents, residence, attendance, grades, and when entered, graduated, or transferred; according to a note in the files, record cards of students attending the schools before 1942 were "compiled from data on old attendance records; many are incomplete"; beginning in the 1960s student records are more complete 

 

/3 Subject file

Inclusive dates: 1930-present (most 1960s)

Volume: .3 cubic foot

Description: Alphabetically arranged; noteworthy files include "Indian," containing correspondence, 1930s-present, between the priests at Pawhuska, the bishops of Oklahoma City, and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions; deeds and wills and financial reports, 1960-present

 

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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