Dates of Operation: 1883-1886
Current Diocese: Baker
Previous Diocese Involved:
Oregon City, 1883-1886
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Sisters of Mercy, 1883-1886*
On a Reservation: Umatilla Reservation
On the Department of the Interior List: No
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Cayuse; Umatilla; Walla Walla

Notes: At the urging of Father Louis Conrady, the Umatilla agency established a boarding school near St. Anne’s chapel and contracted with the Sisters of Mercy to staff it. It opened on January 1, 1883, near Pendleton. The school could not be sustained after grievances with the local agent, and the sisters moved off the reservation to St. Joseph’s Academy, east of Pendleton, though it is not known whether this school included Native children or whether it was also a boarding school. It also fell on hard times, and Archbishop William Gross invited the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia to assume charge of it beginning in 1888. See the entry for Pendleton, St. Andrew’s School for more information.