 Co., 1969) became a noted scholarly resource on the early history of the Mohawk Nation of Colonial New York.The Caughnawaga Castle Site was declared a National Historical Place in 1973.The Fonda memorial, after the beatification of Kateri by the Catholic Church in 1980, is now the National Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine, whose museum houses the Mohawk Caughnawaga Collection assembled by Grassmann.