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St. Joseph Industrial School

Keshena, Wisconsin
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Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):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