Tekakwitha

Reconnecting with the Catholic faith of her childhood, she also led a San Francisco prayer circle named for Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Algonquin and Mohawk woman who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI.

Those windows were later installed upstate, in the new St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church, in LaGrangeville.

Ms. Shenandoah sang for the Dalai Lama and South African leader Nelson Mandela, and in 2012 she appeared at the Vatican to honor the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint.

But, not wanting to impose another European saint on American land, he instead named it after Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th Century Algonquin-Mohawk woman who converted to Catholicism as a teenager and, in 2012, became the first Native American to be canonized.

Three women born in the country have been canonized: Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton in 1975, Katharine Drexel in 2000 and Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012.