Loretto Sisters Project Page
Detail of “Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata” by Gerardus Mercator (1569)
Land-history research for:
(515 Nerinx Rd, Nerinx, KY 40049)
( NE ¼ of Sec. 19, Township 22S, Range 24W and SE ¼ of Sec. 18, Township 22S, Range 24W)
(Tract 4, Block 37, San Elizario Land Grant, El Paso County, Texas)
European Contact
The Doctrine of Discovery at the Loretto Parcels
“Taking possession of Louisiana and the River Mississippi, in the name of Louis XIVth, by Cavalier De La Salle” by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin (c. 1860)
“Map of the Indian nations in the Southern Department,” by John Gerar William De Brahm (1766)
Curated Resource List for the Loretto Sisters
There’s more
For an Indigenous perspective on erasure:
Read Jean M. O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
For narrative nonfiction about the Osage Reign of Terror:
Read David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday, 2017)
For a podcast exploring modern Osage identity:
Listen to Code Switch, Family, fortune, and the fight for Osage headrights (NPR 2023)
For the role of religion in federal Indian policy:
Read Linda Clemmons, Conflicted Mission: Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2014)
For indigenous perspectives on U.S. history:
Detail of photo from St. Ann’s Academy, St. Paul KS
Read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015)
Read Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023)