| | Foreword / Christopher J. Kauffman | |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Preface | |
| | General Introduction / Christopher Vecsey | |
| Pt. 1 | The Spanish Heritage | |
| 1 | Confesionario of Fray Francisco Pareja, O.F.M., 1613 | 1 |
| 2 | Don Juan de Onate Describes the Acoma Indians' First Contacts with Christianity, 1598 | 8 |
| 3 | Revised Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, O.F.M., 1634 | 11 |
| 4 | Declaration of Pedro Naranjo on the Pueblo Indians' Revolt, 1681 | 13 |
| 5 | Bishop Tamaron's Visitation of New Mexico, 1760 | 16 |
| 6 | Fray Francisco Atansio Dominguez's Description of the Missions of New Mexico, 1776 | 19 |
| 7 | Eugene Van Patten, President of the Tortugas Indians [Los Indios de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe], to Reverend William H. Ketcham, May 12, 1919 | 20 |
| 8 | Nativity Myth at Laguna, Recorded by Elsie Clews Parsons, 1918 | 22 |
| 9 | Letter to Santa Claus by Esther Naktewa (Zuni), St. Anthony Indian School, October 18, 1937 | 24 |
| 10 | Reverend Regis Darpel, O.F.M., Writes of the Jemez Hosts to the Christ Child, 1949 | 25 |
| 11 | Archbishop Rudolph A. Gerken's Declaration to the Governor, Officials, and People of the Santo Domingo Pueblo, July 16, 1935 | 27 |
| 12 | Augustine Aguilar and Other Santo Domingo Officials to Archbishop Gerken, August 6, 1935 | 29 |
| 13 | Archbishop Gerken to Aguilar, August 8, 1935 | 30 |
| 14 | John Bird to Santo Domingo to the Editor, 1940 | 33 |
| 15 | Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne to the Governor, Santo Domingo Pueblo, December 30, 1943 | 34 |
| 16 | Fred Tenorio et al., San Felipe Pueblo, to Archbishop Byrne, March 2, 1949 | 35 |
| 17 | Archbishop Byrne to Tenorio, March 15, 1949 | 36 |
| 18 | An Isleta Committee for Religious Freedom Writes to Archbishop James P. Davis, June 28, 1965 | 37 |
| 19 | Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez to Gilbert Valdez, Santa Fe Fiesta Council, September 23, 1977 | 38 |
| 20 | Delfin J. Lovato, All Indian Pueblo Council, to Archbishop Sanchez, September 26, 1977 | 40 |
| 21 | A Yaqui Maestro's Story, 1940 | 40 |
| 22 | A Yaqui Easter Sermon by Ignacio Alvarez, 1941 | 41 |
| 23 | Reverend Remy Rudin, O.F.M., Describes O'odham [Papago] Pilgrims to Magdelena de Kino, 1953 | 45 |
| 24 | Joseph W. Thomas Speaks of O'odham [Pima] Religion and Catholicism, July 22, 1995 | 47 |
| 25 | Sister Gloria Ann Davis, S.B.S., Tells to Navajo Religion, the Native American Church, and Catholicism, 1975 | 49 |
| 26 | Tony Machukay (Apache) Writes of "The Status of St. John's Mission School," April 22, 1981 | 51 |
| 27 | Fray Juan Crespi's Journal of Alta California, 1769 | 54 |
| 28 | Testimony of Runaway Christian Indians, August, 12, 1797 | 55 |
| 29 | Pablo Tac (Luiseno), A Record of California Mission Life, 1835 | 57 |
| 30 | Fathers Fernando Martin, O.F.M., and Vicente Oliva, O.F.M., to Comandante General Jose Maria Echeandia, regarding Citizen Gill, 1826 | 60 |
| 31 | Certificate of the Marriage of Malvina Sawebel (Cupeno) and Suanee Mooat (Cupeno), Presided by Catechist Ambrosio Ortega (Cupeno), 1891 | 60 |
| 32 | Memoir of Pala by Father Julian Girardot, O.F.M., ca. 1935 | 61 |
| 33 | Santa Rosa Mission Indians to Bishop Charles F. Buddy, October 16, 1939 | 63 |
| 34 | Mrs. Mariano Saubel et al., Morongo Mission Indians, to Pope Pius XII, May 23, 1952 | 63 |
| Pt. 2 | The French Heritage | |
| 35 | Reverend William M. Hughes, "The Happiest People in the World," 1913 | 65 |
| 36 | Bishop Amedee W. Proulx's Memo, "Peter Dana Point," October 20, 1982 | 71 |
| 37 | Reverend Andrew White, S.J., in Maryland, 1639 | 73 |
| 38 | Reverend Jerome Lalemant, S.J., Describes Joseph Chihouatenhoua, a Huron Convert, 1640 | 75 |
| 39 | Reverend Simon le Moyne, S.J., Describes the "Captive Church" of Hurons among the Iroquois, 1654 | 78 |
| 40 | Reverend Joseph Marie Chaumonot, S.J., Describes a Pilgrimage to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, 1671 | 79 |
| 41 | Reverend Paul Ragueneau, S.J., Describes Huron Martyrdom, 1658 | 80 |
| 42 | Reverend Claude Dablon, S.J., Describes Daniel Garakontie, a Christian Onondaga, 1671-72 | 81 |
| 43 | Remembrance of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Saintly Mohawk, by Reverend Pierre Cholenec, S.J., 1696 | 84 |
| 44 | Christian Daniel Claus, "Memorandum at Onondaga," 1750 | 87 |
| 45 | Reverend Michael K. Jacobs, S.J., to Bishop James J. Navagh, March 9, 1961 | 89 |
| 46 | Reverend Francois le Mercier, S.J., Describes the Anishinabe Encounter with Catholicism, 1668 | 94 |
| 47 | Reverend Dablon, "Of the State of Christianity at the Mission of Saint Marie du Sault," 1670 | 97 |
| 48 | Reverend Dablon Describes Diseases and Baptisms among the Anishinabe, 1671 | 100 |
| 49 | Leopold Pokagon to Bishop Frederick Rese, 1830 | 104 |
| 50 | Reverend Louis Baroux Records Elizabeth Pokagon's Last Words, 1851 | 105 |
| 51 | Antonine Denomie (Ojibwa) to Monsignor Joseph A. Stephan, October 4, 1888 | 106 |
| 52 | John B. Masskogijigwek (Ojibwa) to Monsignor Stephan, December 10, 1890 | 107 |
| 53 | "Cha-pah-kes-kut - Ghost Dinner," St. Michael's Church, October 21, 1979 | 107 |
| 54 | The Diaries of Louis Riel, 1884-85 | 108 |
| 55 | Houma Indian Church Records, Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, 1843-1911 | 109 |
| 56 | Choctaw Letters from Union, Mississippi, to Reverend William H. Ketcham, 1917-20 | 110 |
| 57 | Reverend Louis Taelman, S.J., Obituary of Louis Ignace La Mousse (Flathead), 1927 | 113 |
| 58 | Anthony Del Orier, William H. Tinker, and Louis C. Reveard (Osages) to the Editor, Freeman Journal, April 16, 1874 | 115 |
| 59 | Lakota Sioux Chiefs to President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877 | 118 |
| 60 | Reverend Henry Grotegeers, S.J., "Instruction by Means of the Two Roads," 1931 | 119 |
| 61 | Bishop Joseph F. Busch to the Catholic Indians of the Diocese of Lead, ca. 1910-15 | 120 |
| 62 | St. Joseph Society, Organization Rules, January 1917 | 122 |
| 63 | Parishioners, St. Paul's Church, Yankton Sioux Reservation, to Reverend Ketcham, May 14, 1920 | 125 |
| 64 | Obituary of Leah Rooks (Lakota), "A Rose of the Bad Lands," by Reverend Eugene Buechel, S.J., 1921 | 125 |
| 65 | John Goes in Center [John Bull] (Lakota), Affidavit, February 7, 1931 | 127 |
| 66 | Minutes of the Golden Jubilee Catholic Sioux Congress, Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge Reservation, 1938 | 128 |
| 67 | Correspondence of Nicholas Black Elk, Lakota Catechist and Medicine Man, 1907-34 | 134 |
| 68 | Pine Ridge Petition to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 5, 1934 | 140 |
| 69 | Freeman A. Mesteth (Lakota) from South Dakota State Penitentiary to Reverend Ted F. Zuern, S.J., March, 7, 1993 | 141 |
| 70 | Reverend Joseph P. Logan, S.J., Report on Catholic Missions among the Indians, Diocese of Seattle, August 16, 1948 | 142 |
| 71 | Swinomish Tribal Community to Bishop Thomas A. Connolly, March, 18, 1971 | 143 |
| 72 | Martin J. Sampson (Skagit) Lectures on Catholicism's Spiritual Power, May 16, 1977 | 146 |
| 73 | Faye LaPointe (Swinomish) to Monsignor Paul A. Lenz, September 26, 1979 | 150 |
| 74 | A Public Declaration to the Tribal Councils and Traditional Spiritual Leaders of the Indian and Eskimo Peoples of the Pacific Northwest: In care of Jewell Praying Wolf James (Lummi), November 21, 1987 | 151 |
| 75 | Joan Staples-Baum (Ojibwa) to Archbishops Raymond Hunthausen and Thomas Murphy, April 20, 1988 | 153 |
| 76 | Robert Joe's Story, "The Deer Named Fish," 1992 | 154 |
| Pt. 3 | Leadership, Urban Ministry, and Inculturation | |
| 77 | Reverend James Chrysostom Bouchard, S.J., [Watomika], ca. 1850-57 | 157 |
| 78 | Two Letters of Lansing M. Jack (Tuscarora) to Monsignor Stephan, November 9, 1889 | 159 |
| 79 | Albert Negahnquet (Potawatomi), Letters from Urban College, Rome, to His Family and to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, 1901-3 | 161 |
| 80 | Letters to Reverend Philip B. Gordon [Ti-bish-ko-gi-jik] (Ojibwa), 1913-24 | 168 |
| 81 | Letters from Lakota Candidates, Novices, and Sisters of the Congregation of American Sisters, 1891-93 | 175 |
| 82 | Lizzie Obern's Biographical Sketch of Sister Edwardine Denomie, F.S.P.A., 1909 | 179 |
| 83 | Small and Big Happenings among the Inuit Sisters of the Snows, 1933-39 | 181 |
| 84 | Geraldine Clifford (Lakota) to Reverend John F. Bryde, S.J., October 28, 1949 | 183 |
| 85 | Sister Anthony Davis, O.S.B.S., on the Origins of an Indian Sisterhood in South Dakota, June 1994 | 185 |
| 86 | Reverends Rene Astruc, S.J., and Louis L. Renner, S.J., Describe William Tyson, the Late Eskimo Deacon, 1994 | 186 |
| 87 | Reverend Zuern, "A Study of the Catholic Potawatomi Indians in Topeka and Their Practice of Religion," March 21, 1958 | 190 |
| 88 | Milwaukee Indians to Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., November 1977 | 192 |
| 89 | Archbishop Weakland to Sister Mary Margaret Troy, S.S.M., December 8, 1977 | 194 |
| 90 | Anita Hamley to Board Members of the Siggenauk Center, September 25, 1979 | 195 |
| 91 | Proposed Mission Statement for the Siggenauk Interfaith Spiritual Center, January 15, 1989 | 196 |
| 92 | The Story of the LaBelle Family "Spirit" Picture, 2001 | 198 |
| 93 | Transcript of the First Medicine Men and Pastors Meeting, Rosebud Lakota Reservation, February 13, 1973 | 200 |
| 94 | Reverend P. Michael Galvan, "Native Catechesis and the Ministry of the Word," 1987 | 206 |
| 95 | Resolution and Statement by the Tekakwitha Conference, March 13, 1987 | 212 |
| 96 | Father John Hascall, O.F.M., Cap., "President's Letter," May 3, 1988 | 213 |
| 97 | Vision Statement of the National Tekakwitha Conference, 1988 | 216 |
| 98 | National Conference of Catholic Bishops, "1992: A Time for Remembering, Reconciling, and Recommitting Ourselves as a People: Pastoral Reflections on the V Centenary and Native American People," 1992 | 218 |
| 99 | Statement of the Association of Native Religious and Clergy, Distributed at the Tekakwitha Conference, Orono, Maine, August 4, 1992 | 227 |
| 100 | Marvin Clifford's Recollections of Kateri Tekakwitha at a South Dakota Mission School, June 1994 | 229 |
| 101 | Jemez Pueblo Elders Joe and Juana Pecos and Saints, Prayers, and Enshrining Tekakwitha in the Southwest, July 11, 1995 | 229 |
| 102 | Faith, Prayer, and Devotion of Mark J. Cheresposey in Laguna Pueblo, July 11, 1995 | 234 |
| 103 | Sister Kateri Mitchell, S.S.A., and Reverend John Brious, O.M.L. "In Her Footsteps," 1995 | 236 |
| 104 | Native Profession of Faith, Tekakwitha Conference, Kahnawake, Quebec, 1995 | 237 |
| | References and Suggested Readings | 241 |
| | Index | 251 |
