Constantine Scollen

Missionary, Linguistic Scholar

Father Con Scollen OMI. (4 April 1841 – 8 November 1902) was an Irish Catholic, Missionary priest who lived among and evangelized the Blackfoot, Cree and Métis peoples on the Canadian Prairies and in northern Montana in the United States.

He also ministered to the Ktunaxa people (Kootenay) on their annual visits to Fort Macleod, from British Columbia.Later he worked among the indigenous peoples in modern-day North Dakota and Wyoming, then Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio.