Department of the Interior material: National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Other material: the Archives of the University of Notre Dame.
Frederic Baraga Papers (BAR), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Copies of typewritten transcripts of documentation assembled by the Bishop Baraga Association in support of the cause for his canonization as a saint; consisting of correspondence, reports, journal and account-book entries, and invoices.
Also microfilm containing correspondence, 1850s-1860s; an Indian language (Ottawa or Chippewa) catechism; an introduction to Catholicism in North America, in German, possibly written for the Leopoldine Society; and correspondence and records of the Michigan Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1825-1850, concerning a conflict between Baptist and Catholic officials over the proceeds coming from the sale of mission lands near Grand Rapids, Michigan, with correspondents including Bishop Peter LeFevre, John Tyler, James Polk, department officials and representatives of the litigants.
In English, German, and Ottawa or Ojibwa.
Missionary among the Chippewas in Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan (1831-1853). Consecrated a bishop in 1853, he served as Bishop of Sainte-Marie (1857-1865) and of Sault Sainte-Marie and Marquette (1865-1868).
Index :
Baraga, Frederic, 1797-1868. Indians of North America -- Missions. Lefevre, Peter Paul, 1804-1869. Tyler, John, 1790-1862. Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849. Bishop Baraga Association. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Michigan Superintendency. Ojibwa Indians -- Catechisms. Ottawa Indians -- Catechisms. Catechisms Letters. Account books.
German introduction to Catholicism in North America, containing some correspondence, and a catechism written in Ottawa or Chippewa made up of a Catechism, meditation book, and hymn book, published in 1866.