The Catholic priests did great evangelism to the North American Indian tribes. Some priests were martyred like St. Lawrence, and then there is the mass conversion of the Aztecs to Catholicism causing them to embrace Jesus and to abandon centuries of human sacrifice.
That was a true miracle.
and Chaput himself is descended from a French fur trader who came over with the French Papal emissaries and an Indian. that’s is also why there’s that whole area of Quebec mostly Catholic and atheist to this day