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● The Tribal Nations impacted are listed as they appear in historical documents and may not reflect the names used by the Nations today.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
St. Joseph Industrial School
Details:
Dates of Operation: 1881–1980
Current Diocese: Green Bay
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Order of Friars Minor (Province of the Sacred Heart), 1881–1980
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (St. Louis Province), 1881–1980*
On a Reservation: Menominee Reservation
On the Department of the Interior List: No
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Menominee; Oneida; Stockbridge
Notes: The boarding section closed in 1952, and the school continued to operate as a day school until 1980.
Note about School Archives: Oral histories from St. Joseph’s Industrial School are housed at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. For more information: https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/SJIS/SJIS-sc.php
Keshena Wisconsin
St. Mary’s Indian School
Details:
Dates of Operation: 1883–1969
Current Diocese: Superior
Previous Diocese Involved:
La Crosse, 1883–1905
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Order of Friars Minor (Province of the Sacred Heart), 1883–1969
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, 1883–1969*
On a Reservation: Bad River Reservation
On the Department of the Interior List: Yes
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Lac Court-Oreille and Lac du Flambeau Reservations; Ojibwa and LaPoint Agency, Red Cliff
Odanah Wisconsin
St. Mary’s Industrial Institute
Details:
Dates of Operation: 1880–1938
Current Diocese: Superior
Previous Diocese Involved:
La Crosse, 1880–1905
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate, 1880–1938*;
Order of Friars Minor (Province of the Sacred Heart), 1880–1938
On a Reservation: No
On the Department of the Interior List: No
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Metis (near Red Cliff); Ojibwa
Notes: In 1880, a new day school was built for the parish, and the old buildings were converted into an industrial boarding school for Native American girls.
Bayfield Wisconsin