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Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist12/16/2005 2:50:32 PMFrederic Baraga is considered the first Slovene to call the Keweenaw home. During the winter of 1843, he was earning his nickname as the Snowshoe Priest for his dedicated service to the small number of English, French Canadian, German, and Ojibway Catholics living in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula. He blazed the path for one of the first significant Slovene communities in the North America. Born in Dobernice in 1797, he landed in the United States on December 31, 1830. Baraga was particularly interested in ministering to Native Americans; he established missions in Ohio, downstate Michigan, and Wisconsin before arriving in L’Anse in 1843. Following the Treaty of LaPointe (1842) he purchased the land around the mission at L’Anse and deeded it to the Ojibway in order to prevent their removal to the west. As the only Catholic priest in the Upper Peninsula, he worked hard to serve the spiritual needs of many nationalities and languages, traveling from Ontonagon to Sault Ste. Marie, and north up along the Keweenaw. During this time, he also compiled the first known Ojibway grammar. By 1853 he was elevated to Bishop of Michigan’s Northern Peninsula. Bishop Baraga’s legacy was honored not only by having a county named after him, but also by the number of Slovenian priests whom he inspired to come to the United States. It has been suggested that of all groups who came here, this pattern – priests preceding lay immigrants – is unique to the Slovenian immigrant experience. By the late 19th century, pioneering priests were serving the growing number of Slovenes who immigrated for work in the Upper Peninsula’s copper and iron mines and lumber industry of the upper Midwest. This information and much more about the Slovene community in the Keweenaw Peninsula can be found on the Interior Ellis Island web site.

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Bibliographic Information
Title: Bishop Baraga
Photographer: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Description: Rt. Rev. Baraga at the time of his consecration [A drawing of Bishop Baraga. Additional negative located in the Reeder Collection U-114]
Source of Description: Photo Caption [cataloger]
Subject(s):


 
 Societies - Church Societies
 Christian Communities
Number of Pieces: One Piece(s)
Medium: photographic print;
Color: B&W;
Size: 9.4 cm x 14.1 cm
Polarity: ; Positive.
Contents Note:
Local Note(s):

 
 Print located in the History of the Diocese of Sault Ste Marie and Marquette A. J. Rezek
Donor: Unknown
Institution: MTU Archives
Collection: MTU Archive Book Collection
Collection #:
Image #: Book BX1411R4-020-001
Condition: Good

 

 

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