The Catholic Indian Missionary Association was a

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fund-raising organization that supported

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and mission work among

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History

In 1875, Catholic lay women organized the association in

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, and other major U.S. cities, with Jean-Baptiste Brouillet as its director and treasurer and

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as its principal organizer and fundraiser. It raised $48,700 in donations and bequests for the ''Catholic Indian Mission Fund'', which supported the

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and Catholic missions and schools on Indian reservations. The chapters in

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and

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raised the bulk of its funds and $6,000 was the most raised in any one year. The association ceased in 1887, when the Catholic Bureau experienced success in acquiring government contracts for the Catholic schools from the Office of Indian Affairs.

References

*Kevin Abing. ''Directors of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions'', 1994, “Reverend John Baptiste Abraham Brouillet, 1879-1884.�

Retrieved June 21, 2010. *Peter J. Rahill. ''The Catholic Indian Missions and Grant's Peace Policy, 1870-1884'' (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1953), 121-31, 154-59, 176.

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