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● The Tribal Nations impacted are listed as they appear in historical documents and may not reflect the names used by the Nations today.
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● This list was last updated on May 5, 2023
Bernalillo Boarding School for Indian Girls
Details:
Dates of Operation: 1885–1935
Current Diocese: Santa Fe
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Sisters of Loretto, 1885–1935*
On a Reservation: Tamaya Reservation
On the Department of the Interior List: Yes
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Genízaro; Mestizos; Tiwa
Notes: In 1875, the Sisters of Loretto opened a day school for local girls. In December 1886, the school received a federal contract to teach Native American girls, and the name was changed to the Bernalillo Boarding School for Indian Girls. Government funding ended about 1901, but the school continued to operate as a Native American boarding school using money received from Mother Katharine Drexel of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.
Bernalillo New Mexico
St. Catherine Indian School
Details:
Dates of Operation: 1886–1998
Current Diocese: Santa Fe
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Sisters of Loretto, 1886–1889*
Order of St. Benedict (St. Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, KS), 1889–1890*
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, 1894–1998*
On a Reservation: No
On the Department of the Interior List: Yes
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Navajo, Pueblos, as well as mission tribes of California and tribes from southern Arizona
Notes: Katharine Drexel (later Mother Katharine of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament) paid for the construction of the school. Lay teachers staffed the school from after the departure of the Sisters of Loretto until the arrival of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1894.
Santa Fe New Mexico