GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Oregon: OR-4

St. Francis of Assisi Church
2450 Northeast Twenty-Seventh Street
Bend, OR 97701

Phone: 541-382-3631
Email: See website (About Us: Contact)

 

Hours: See website (About Us: Contact)

 

History: St. Francis of Assisi Church, Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Baker (Archives: Redmond, Oregon). Capuchins (Irish Province) (Archives: Dublin, Ireland) at St. Francis of Assisi attended to Native American stations in Oregon:

1908-1929	Klamath Government Indian School (Klamath), Klamath
1913-1950 (transferred to St. Thomas, Redmond)	Warm Springs Reservation station (Paiute, Walla Walla, Wasco)
1929	Warm Springs Government Indian School (Paiute, Walla Walla, Wasco), Warm Springs, Warm Springs Reservation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1908-1950

Volume: Several entries within several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of the Warm Springs Reservation station and students at the Klamath and Warm Springs Government Indian Schools. 

 

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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