The Knights of Columbus have produced a one-hour film, by the name of “Enduring Faith,” about Catholicism and Native Americans, covering a wide range of related topics, including damages caused by Europeans and benefits afforded by certain popes. 

The film is now available for streaming online, according to The Florida Catholic.

"It is clearly the position of the Church that people have a right in public life to participate in decisions affecting their lives," the pope said in September of that year. "It has particular applications for you as Natives peoples, in your striving to take your rightful place among the peoples of the earth, with a just and equitable degree of self-governing,” Pope John Paul II said in his 1984 address to Native American Catholics in Canada, according to IndianZ.

The film dives into the contributions that Native Americans made to Catholicism over the years and explains the connection to the faith of American residents hundreds of years prior to the founding of the U.S., in relation to Catholicism.

John Paul II made a number of visits to indigenous communities during his pontificate, which lasted for 27 years. He was responsible for canonizing the first Native American saint, Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, who was an Aztec man from the 1500s, as well as beatifying Kateri Tekwakitha, a Mohawk woman from the 17th century.