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New Zealand Tablet, 21 December 1911, Page 2609

According to the figures of the Rev. Father Hughes, lecturer for the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, one-third of the 300,000 Indians in the United States are Catholics, one-third Protestants, and the other third pagans. The Catholics have a large number of churches, chapels, and schools devoted to the Indians. In the missionary field are 165 priests, 400 Sisters, 75 Brothers, and about 100 native Indian catechists. The catechists act as prayer leaders in the absence of the priest. Where the Indians 1 are extensively engaged in farming, and are widely separated, boarding schools are conducted for the benefit of their children. The Indians themselves support 12 of these schools, leaving 51 to be kept up by the charity of the white Catholics of the United States.