A Native-American saint Admin Tuesday, December 20, 2011 The Vatican on Monday announced that Kateri Tekawitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman, will be canonized as a Catholic saint, the first Native American from North America so proclaimed. © 2023 The Catholic Thing. All rights reserved. For reprint rights, write to: [email protected] The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own.