Native Footsteps: Along the Path of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

For the first time, Native Footsteps tells the stories of Native North American devotion to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha from past to present. Saint Kateri, a 17th century Algonquin-Mohawk convert, is the first U.S. Native American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. These many documents, photographs, and interviews, most of which came from Marquette Universitys Native Catholic archival collections, illustrate the numerous ways the saints life has touched native people of diverse lifestyles and tribal backgrounds.

Mark G. Thiel is archivist of Native Catholic collections at Marquette University.
He is author of Indian Way and co-author of the online Guides to Catholic-Related
Records about Native Americans in the United States.

Christopher Vecsey is Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of the Humanities,
Native American Studies, and Religion at Colgate University. He is author of the
three-volume series, American Indian Catholics.

Thiel and Vecsey (together with the late Marie Therese Archambault, OSF) are
co-editors of The Crossing of Two Roads: Being Catholic and Native in the United States.