The hochokaaudio’s Podcast

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 5 - The American Indian Catholic Schools Network

Mother Teresa is often quoted, "I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things." That is the great benefit of collaboration, which shapes much of the work we do at St. Joseph’s. Let’s learn more about the school’s relationship with the University of Notre Dame.

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 4 - St. Joseph’s Bookmobile Reprise

Why are three college-age women traveling throughout the Indian Country of the Northern Plains distributing books? Let’s find out.

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 3 - Talking Thióšpaye, Part I - Getting to Know Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ

How is it that a former U. S. Marine from Texas with a Poly-Sci major finds himself deeply involved in the spiritual and administrative life of St. Joseph’s Indian School? Let’s talk with Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ, and learn all about it. 

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 2 - Jennifer Renner Meyer - Getting to Know the New CEO

Leadership is a role performed uniquely by the person who holds the role. At St. Joseph’s Indian School, we are experiencing a transition in leadership that brings a new title and a new face. Let’s get to know this person!

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 1 - Mike Tyrell - Through (with) 40 Years

President Ronald Regan and Vice President George W. Bush begin their second term in office. Coke releases new-and-improved New Coke, meeting so much opposition that old Coke is back on the shelves in three months. The Unabomber is on the loose. “Back to the Future” opens in theaters across America, and Mike and Kim Tyrell arrive for their first year as houseparents at St. Joseph’s Indian School. These things happened 40 years ago. Here to tell us what it’s like 40 years later, the school’s President, Mike Tyrell.

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 18 - Talking Thiyóšpaye, Part III - Hope McCloskey

"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air." St. Joseph’s alum Hope McCloskey favors this quote by Henry Grunwald, former editor in chief of Time, Inc. Let’s find out what the noise is all about.

Season 7, Episode 17 - Fresh Perspectives on Catholicism, Part II – Black Elk and the Prayer of Creation

Our 7th Graders head out on their annual visit to sites sacred to their culture this week. During the school’s 2022 Seventh Grade Cultural Trip, as the boy’s group reached the summit of Matȟó Pahá, their pleasant ascent became shrouded in fog, and they could not see ten feet in front of them. They were pelted with sleet and snow. What can Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk teach us about this event? Dr. Damian Costello has some thoughts.

Hochoka Season 7, Special Episode - Remembering Joseph Marshall III

Today we bear profound grief on the wings of deep gratitude as we invite you to join us in remembering our friend, Joseph Marshall III.

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 16 - Monique Gray Smith – Her Work as an Author

Love is medicine, learning from each other is a precious practice and positive change is possible says successful Indigenous author, speaker and consultant Monique Gray Smith. That sounds like good medicine to me. Let’s learn more.

Hochoka Season 7, Episode15 - Christianity Through an Indigenous Lens, Part IV – Dreams and Visions

It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, Your old men will have dreams, Your young men will see visions,” says the prophet Joel. “What does it mean for Christians to embrace and honor the dreams and visions given to us by Creator?” asks Dr. Chris Hoklotubbe. Let’s find out!