GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 4: Outside United States
Switzerland: CH-1

Benedictines. Our Lady of Einsiedeln Abbey. Archives
Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln
c/o Kloster Einsiedeln Postfach
CH-8840 Einsiedeln, Schweiz

Phone: 055-418-61-11

 

History: Monks from Our Lady of Einsiedeln Abbey (founded 934) and their successors founded the following abbeys in the United States that administered Catholic missions among Native Americans: 

1854-present	St. Meinrad Abbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana
1893-present (elevated to abbey, 1903)	Assumption Abbey, Richardson, North Dakota
1950-2012 (elevated to abbey, 1954; closed)	Blue Cloud Abbey, Marvin, South Dakota

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans in the United States:

Inclusive dates: 1862-1897, undated

Volume: At least .2 cubic foot

Description: Correspondence between the St. Meinrad and Einsiedeln Abbeys, re: Fort Totten Reservation (Santee Dakota), North Dakota, and the Standing Rock Reservation (Hunkpapa Lakota), North and South Dakota Indian missions; major correspondents include Abbot Fintan Mundwiler, O.S.B., Bishop/ Abbot Martin Marty, O.S.B., Rev. Claude Ebner, O.S.B., Rev. John Chrysostom Foffa, O.S.B., Rev. Jerome Hunt, O.S.B., and Christina Wewer (housekeeper of Bishop Marty); in German with some English translations. 

 

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.

New2006/rev2013-2018