Native American Heritage Month: Home

Marquette Libraries Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month Marquette Libraries are highlighting resources on Native Americans in our collections. On this home page we note some of the resources on Native Americans in our Special Collections, or Archives. The subsequent pages on Books, Articles, and Web Sites highlight resources for further research into the subject.

Native Americans in Marquette's Special Collections--A Guide
This guide will show you the whole range of resources on Native Americans in our archives, from manuscripts to photos. A few of the larger collections are linked below.
Christianity and Native America
Included are records of Hispanic, French, and Anglo-American Catholics working with Native Americans.
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
This is one of the largest record groups in our Special Collections.
Catholic Native Americans--Digital Collections
There are several digital collections of material on Catholic Native Americans. Scroll down and click on Catholic Native America Collections.
Heritage of Fr. John Paul Prucha, S. J.
Fr. John Paul Prucha is an internationally know scholar of Native American history who taught for decades at Marquette, beginning in the 1960s. His papers provide insights into a generation of historical work on Native Americans.

Marquette, Native Americans, and "The Warriors"

Like many schools across the United States, Marquette once had a Native American as a mascot. Its sports teams were known as The Warriors. In deference to Native Americans, Marquette changed its mascot in the early 1990s to The Golden Eagles. This decision was and remains controversial, and it places Marquette in the middle of a nation-wide cultural debate about the Native American Heritage. Search on "warrior" in the Marquette Special Collections Department's web site to get a flavor of our holdings on this issue. Listed below are a few books on the wider controversy.