Present The tribes wholly or par tially Catholic are: Arickaree, Assinaboine, Abenaki, Blackfeet, Coeur d'Alene, Chippewa, Crow, Colville, Digger, Flathead, Gros Ventre, Huron, Kalapuya, Mohawk, Mandan, Menomi nee, Mission, Nez Pere& Osage, Ottawa., Pot tawatomie, Piegan, Passamaquoddy, Pueblo, Pa pago, Pima, Quapaw, Sioux, Saint Regis, Tin neh, Tulalip, Umatilla, Winnebago, Wenatchi and Yakima. Catholics are also to be found among the Arapahos, Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Creeks, Comanches, Cayugas, Mi amis, Northern Cheyennes, Otos, Oneidas, Pon cas, Peorias, Stockbridges, Sauk and Foxes and Yumas. Most of these tribes are provided with missions, while a number of others live in the vicinity of missions and fall under Catholic influence. Consequently Catholic Indian mis sion work is carried on in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Montana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ne braska, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Okla homa, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Elsewhere small remains of tribes are cared for by the parochial clergy. More than
150 priests, both secular and regular, aided by catechists (Indian and white), labor on the Indian missions. The total number of priests, teaching brothers, lay brothers, scholastics, sisters and secular teachers engaged in Indian educational work is about 650. There are about 100 schools (boarding and day), with over 6,000 pupils; about 200 churches and chapels; and the value 'of church and school buildings is not less than $1,500,000. The mission records show annually about 3,500 baptisms, 600 Christian marriages, 1,200 Chris tian burials. Of a total Indian population of 291,014 about 100,000 are Catholics.
Consult Shea, 'The Catholic Church in Colonial Days' (1886) and 'History of the Catholic Church in the United States-1844 to 1866' (New York 1892); O'Gorman, 'A His tory of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States' (ib. 1895); Reports of Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions from 1874; Re ports of Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
REV. Wm. H. KETCHAM, Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Mis sions, Washington, D. C.