2013 Tekakwitha Conference Convention; Plus: Native Catholic Stats

ICTMN Staff
April 14, 2013
Native American Catholics have their own national organization, the Tekakwitha Conference ...

First Native American Archbishop: 'Easter and Its Implications'

ICTMN Staff
April 14, 2013
The Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, the Archbishiop of Philadelphia, is the first Native American Archbishiop; he was only the second Native American b...

Easter 2013: First Native American Archbishop Testifies Before U.S. Civil Rights Commission: 'Our First Right: Religious Liberty'

ICTMN Staff
March 31, 2013
On March 25, the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, the Archbishiop of Philadelphia, testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on religious freedom...

White House Delegation to Vatican Includes Mohawk Nun Who Brought Kateri Tekakwitha Miracle

ICTMN Staff
October 21, 2012
A Mohawk nun is part of a Presidential delegation attending the canonization mass of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope at the Vatican in Rome...

Canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha Draws at Least 2,000 Mohawks to Vatican Ceremony

Gale Courey Toensing
October 18, 2012
What is likely to be the largest delegation of Mohawk Indians ever to assemble in Rome will take place this weekend, October 20–21, for the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17t...

Former Vancouver Olympics CEO Battles Allegations He Abused Burns Lake Students in '69

Wawmeesh Hamilton
September 30, 2012
The CEO of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, denied allegations that he abused aboriginal children in Burns Lake more than 40 years ago, as the chief of the Fi...
Alma Ransom

Tekakwitha Acted of Her Own Free Will

It seems like no one realizes that Tekakwitha lived a full life of learning and practicing our traditional culture and knew how to survive before she became a Catholic. There were missionaries who had learned our language and dialects among the Iroquois and she learned their prayers....

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March 18, 2012
Ray Cook

Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha Will Become Saint This Fall; Media Looks for Predicted Mixed Reactions

Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha will become a saint in the fall, and the media is looking for the predicted mixed reactions...

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March 18, 2012

Canadian Bishops Add Aboriginal Web Page to Site

ICTMN Staff
January 22, 2012
As the relationship between aboriginals and the Canadian government comes to a head, the Catholic Church has taken a step to note its ties to the country’s Indigenous Peoples...

South Dakota High Court Green-Lights Native Childhood-Sex-Abuse Case

Stephanie Woodard
January 09, 2012
After dismissing multiple American Indian childhood-sexual-abuse lawsuits against the Catholic Church, the Supreme Court of South Dakota has allowed one suit to go forward...

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