GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Wyoming: WY-3
Buffalo Bill Center of the West. McCraken Research Library
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414
Phone: 307-578-4059
Email: See website (Research)
Alternative website: Rocky Mountain Online Archive
Hours: See website (Research)
Access: Some restrictions may apply
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1865-1992, undated
Volume: Ca. .6 cubic foot
Description: 4 collections include Native Catholic records:
/1 鈥淏lack, Anne, Collection, MS 4鈥�
Inclusive dates: Between 1887-1910
Volume: Few letters
Description: Within 15 letter-book volumes of U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Records of the Northern Cheyenne/ Tongue River Indian Agency, collected by Black; include occasional references to Ursulines and Cheyenne Indian students at St. Labre School, Ashland, Montana.
/2 鈥淗uffman, L.A. Collection鈥�
Inclusive dates: undated
Volume: At least 1 photograph
Description: No. 129, 鈥淥ld Catholic mission [St. Labre Mission] with sisters [Ursulines], Tongue River, Montana,鈥� undated
/3 鈥淧lains Indian Seminar鈥�
Inclusive dates: 1986, 1992
Volume: 20 videocassettes and 1 volume
Description:
A. 鈥�1992, The Artist and the Missionary: a Native American and EuroAmerican Cultural Exchange,鈥� 1992, 1994; 9 videocassettes and 1 volume published proceedings; presentations on missionary and Native interaction; topics include Christian teaching devices, Wind River Reservation missions (Arapaho, Shoshoni), St. Francis Mission (Brul茅 Lakota, St. Francis, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota), and Jesuit missionaries.
B. 鈥淩eflections of the People [video recording]: the Plains Indians and their Photographers,鈥� 1986; 11 videocassettes; presentations on photographers and their photographs of Plains Indians, including a presentation by Brother C.M. Simon, S.J. [Jesuits], of Red Cloud Indian School (Oglala Lakota), Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on the use of mission school photographs.
/4 St. Stephen鈥檚 Mission Records
Inclusive dates: 1865-1985
Volume: 9 reels of microfilm
Description: Microfilm collection, re: Arapaho and Shoshoni Indians, Jesuits, and Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia; from 向日葵视频 Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
/5 Digital Collections
Inclusive dates:
Volume: 2 items
Description: Pertain to Nicholas Black Elk, in part (keyword search: 鈥淏lack Elk鈥�)
A. 鈥淚ndian Warriors and Tepees,鈥� P327.0014 in MS 327 James Wojtowicz Collection; image print from Buffalo Bill鈥檚 Wild West by Elliott & Frey, London, 1887; 15 Native men in front of tipis; verso description: 鈥淏lack Elk 6th from left.鈥�
B. 鈥淣orth American Indians.鈥� 鈥淎 page from the Souvenir Album of the visit of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the American Exhibition in London, England containing a list of Native Americans associated with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.鈥� Black Elk鈥檚 name is listed as, 鈥淗arka-sapa Black Elk.鈥�
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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