Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk...

...Indian born in 1656, is about to be the first Native American canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. 

According to a story in the Times today, however, some American Indians "doubt the truthfulness of her story as told by the church." 

I'll let you be the judge (my emphasis): 

According to the Jesuits who documented her life, Kateri was born in what is now Auriesville, N.Y., on the southern bank of the Mohawk River, about 40 miles west of Albany. When she was 4, a smallpox epidemic killed her Algonquin Christian mother and Mohawk-warrior father. The disease also badly scarred her face and impaired her eyesight, earning her the name Tekakwitha, which means, “she who bumps into things.” At age 10, after war destroyed her birth village, she moved with her uncle’s family to a long house on the other side of the river. 

In contact with missionaries as a teenager, she decided to become a Catholic, despite opposition from her clan and an impending arranged marriage. After she was baptized at age 20, she fled to a Catholic Indian settlement in what is now Canada. There, she worked with the sick, took a vow of perpetual virginity, and began practicing self-mortification, which included praying for hours outdoors, on her knees, during the winter. She became ill, and died at 24. 

It was a simple life, marked by devotion. But after her death, Jesuits and others said they saw miraculous signs. The pockmarks on her body disappeared, they said. Prayers seeking her assistance were followed by healing. 

In 1880, Catholics began petitioning the Vatican to declare Kateri a saint, and 100 years later, the Vatican certified the first miracle attributed to her intercession. Last year, the Vatican credited her with aiding in the healing of a flesh-eating infection in an American Indian boy in Washington State, the second miracle that was required for canonization. 

Kateri performed her first miracle in 1980, three hundred years after she died? What the heck was she waiting for? And her second, and qualifying, miracle wasn't performed until 2011? 

Now, I'm not an expert on such things, but wouldn't you at least expect a miracle to be performed in a timely manner?