GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-21
Sacred Heart Church
2515 North Main Street
Miami, OK 74354
Phone: 918-542-5281
Email: sacredheartmiami@cableone.net
History: Sacred Heart Church, Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma). Sacred Heart has administered the archival records of the closed, St. Mary of the Quapaws Church, Quapaw, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
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1847-1887
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Jesuits (Missouri Mission) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at Osage Mission, Kansas, attended to the Quapaw Indians |
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1847-1870
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Quapaw Indian children attended the Osage Indian Manual Labor School, Osage Mission, Kansas |
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1887-1888 |
Wichita diocesan priests at Sacred Heart, Chetopa, Kansas, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station (Quapaw) |
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1888-1889
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Benedictines (Archives: Shawnee, Oklahoma) at St. John’s, McAlester, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1889-1890 |
An Oklahoma City diocesan priest at Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1890-1892 |
Benedictines at St. John’s, McAlester, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1890-1892 (closed) |
A lay teacher established and administered St. Ann School, (Quapaw) Paar Creek, Quapaw Reservation, Ottawa County |
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1892-1893 |
An Oklahoma City diocesan priest at Assumption Church, Muskogee, attended to the Quapaw Reservation station |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests established and administered St. Mary of the Quapaws Church and School, Quapaw |
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1893-1904 |
Sisters of St. Joseph (unknown) staffed St. Mary School |
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1904-1927 (closed) |
Sisters of Divine Providence (San Antonio, Texas) staffed St. Mary School |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at St. Mary's attended to the following stations and missions among Native Americans in Oklahoma:
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Peoria Reservation station (Peoria), Ottawa County |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Ottawa Reservation station (Ottawa), Ottawa County |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Seneca Reservation station (Seneca), Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1889-1890 (transferred to St. John's, McAlester) |
Wyandot Reservation station (Wyandotte), Ottawa County |
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1893-1898 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
Afton station (Cherokee), Ottawa County |
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1893-1909 (closed) |
Leonard Settlement station (Cherokee, Creek), Tulsa County, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Modoc Reservation station (Modoc), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Fairland station (Cherokee), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Little Five Miles station (Quapaw), Ottawa County |
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1893-1900 (became a mission) |
Miamitown station (Miami), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Peoria Reservation station (Peoria), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Wyandot Reservation station (Wyandotte), Ottawa County |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Seneca Reservation station (Seneca), Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Shawnee Reservation station (Shawnee), Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties |
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1893-1927 (closed) |
Ottawa Reservation station (Ottawa), Ottawa County |
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1896-1899 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
Welch station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Bluejacket station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Eagle station (Cherokee) [unknown] |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Kennison station (Cherokee) [unknown] |
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1896-1904 (closed) |
Russell Creek station (Cherokee), Craig County, Cherokee Nation |
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1900-1927 (became a parish) (no longer Native) |
Sacred Heart Mission (Miami), Miami/ Miamitown, Ottawa County |
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1902-1915 (transferred to Holy Ghost, Vinita) |
St. Mathias Mission (Cayuga), Cayuga, Delaware and Ottawa Counties |
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1910-1927 (closed) |
Four Mile Creek station (Cherokee), Canadian County |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1847-1927, undated
Volume: .3 cubic foot
Description: The records at Sacred Heart Church were not organized according to a classification scheme when reviewed by Marquette University archivists, 1980. Consequently, description is by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1847-1927
Volume: 3 volumes
Description: Records for Native American parishioners of St. Mary's of the Quapaws Mission and its missions and stations; baptisms, 1847-1927, marriages, 1894-1927, deaths, 1912-1927, first communions, 1914-1918, 1925, and confirmations, 1915-1925
/2 "Documents, historical and ethnographic data"
Inclusive dates: 1894-1908, undated
Volume: 1 volume
Description: Contains lists of Quapaw children attending the Osage Mission School in St. Paul, Kansas, priests who attended the Quapaw Indians, and marriages, 1894-1908
Unless noted otherwise, the repository named above holds (or held) the records described and not the Marquette University Archives. However, Marquette’s holdings, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, include related records about these Native and Catholic groups and places.
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