GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Minnesota: MN-3

St. Charles Church
308 Central Avenue North
P.O. Box 368
Cass Lake, MN 56633

Phone: 218-335-2359
Email: See website

 

History: St. Charles Church, Cass Lake, Minnesota, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Duluth (Archives: Duluth, Minnesota). administered by Duluth diocesan priests. St. Charles has held the records of St. Catherine Church, Cass Lake, which has been a center for Native American (Ojibwa) missions. 

St. Catherine Church:

1873-1975

St. Paul diocesan priests at St. Benedict/ Our Most Holy Redeemer, White Earth, attended to Cass Lake station (Ojibwa)

1875-1879, 1889

Northern Minnesota vicariate apostolate priests (Archives: St. Cloud, Minnesota) at St. Benedict/ Our Most Holy Redeemer, White Earth, attended to Cass Lake station (Ojibwa)

1879-1884

Benedictines (St. John's Abbey) (Archives: Collegeville, Minnesota) at Immaculate Conception/ St. Ignatius, Red Lake, attended to Cass Lake station

1880s-1895

Duluth diocesan priests at St. Benedict/ Our Most Holy Redeemer, White Earth, attended to Cass Lake station (Ojibwa)

1895-1898

 

Benedictines (St. John's Abbey) (Archives: Collegeville, Minnesota) at Immaculate Conception/ St. Ignatius, Red Lake, attended to Cass Lake station

1898-1905

Benedictines at Holy Family, Cloquet, attended to Cass Lake station

1905-1926

Benedictines at St. Theodore’s, Ponsford, attended to Cass Lake station

1926-1934

Became a parish; Benedictine’s administered St. Catherine Church

1934-1945

Benedictines at Holy Family, Cloquet, attended to Cass Lake station, and later, to St. Catherine Mission, Cass Lake

1945-1952 (closed)

Duluth diocesan priests at St. Charles', Cass Lake, attended St. Catherine’s

Benedictines at St. Catherine’s, Cass Lake, attended to the following Native American (Ojibwa) missions:

 

1926-1934 (transferred to Immaculate Conception, Red Lake)

St. Anne Mission, Naytahwaush

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Ball Club)

Cut Foot Sioux station

 

1926-1928 (transferred to St. Theodore's, Ponsford)

Sacred Heart Mission, Onigum

1926-1934 (became a parish)

St. Joseph Mission, Ball Club

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Ball Club)

St. Ann Mission, Bena

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Ball Club)

Bowstring station

1926-1928

Island Lake station

1926-1934 (transferred to Holy Family, Cloquet)

St. Joseph Mission, Mission Corner

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Ball Club)

Round Lake station

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Joseph's, Ball Club)

Lake Winnibigoshish station

1926-1934 (transferred to St. Michael's, Mahnomen)

Big Elbow Lake station

1928-1934 (transferred to Immaculate Conception, Red Lake)

St. Agnes Mission, Island Lake

1945-1952 (closed)

St. Joseph Mission, Mission Corner

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1926-1952

Volume: 4 volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Catherine Church and its missions and stations; also includes the records for parishioners of St. Joseph’s, Mission Corner, 1935-1944, when attended from Holy Family, Cloquet.

 

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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