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Hochoka Season 6, Episode 15 - Fresh Perspectives on Catholicism Part III - Our Lady of Guadalupe and Like an Eagle From Fire

“I ponder within my heart, where will I gather the holy, fragrant flowers? Who will I ask? …  If they showed them to me, I will fill my tilma and with them I will greet the nobles, with them I will make the lords happy.” This famous pre-colonial Native song is a key that opens our imaginations to the mystery of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Let’s open that door!

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 14 - Fresh Perspectives on Catholicism Through an Indigenous Lens Part II - Holy Darkness and Advent

Darkness gets a lot of bad press. Few of us want to be “in a dark place” or living in “the darkest hour.” Many are afraid of the dark, the absence of light, and it is under the cover of darkness that nefarious deeds go unseen. Colossians 1:13 proclaims, “He has rescued us from the power of darkness.” But Dr. Damian Costello tells us that Indigenous and Catholic traditions alike tell us that darkness is nothing less than sacred. Listen.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 13 - Talking Thiyóšpaye Part II with Trinity Sazue

Winston Churchill, who served as Prime Minister of England during the Second World War, once said, “I’d rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon.” It’s our good fortune today to spend around a half hour with someone we consider a top carpenter here at St. Joe’s, alum Trinity Sazue.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 12 - The Elders' Circle Part II

To be a Native American Elder today means to have navigated the forced assimilation of the boarding school era and to have witnessed the loss of culture, language and more. How might you have emerged from such an experience? Let’s continue our conversation with two who show us the way.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 11 - The Elders' Circle Part I

Lydia Whirlwind Soldier writes in her poem “To Be an Elder,” “Nope … I am not ready to give up my immature ways, to spontaneously give. I am not ready to examine and prune my behaviors, to ask for those senior discounts, to set examples for those around or let those old patterns vanish.” Joseph Marshall III joins her in a conversation about being a Lakota Elder.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 10 - The Circle of Care and Indigenous Evaluation Part III - Counseling Services

“If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace,” said Lakota Holy Man Frank Fools Crow. A key component of balance at St. Joseph’s Indian School is our Counseling Services Department. Today, we’ll look at their work through an Indigenous lens.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 9 - The Circle of Care and Indigenous Evaluation Part II - The Health Center

“To us, health is about so much more than simply not being sick. It’s about getting a balance between physical, mental, emotional, cultural and spiritual health,” says one Indigenous physician and researcher. Let’s learn how St. Joseph’s Indian School’s health center is taking those words to heart.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 8 - The Circle of Care and Indigenous Evaluation Part I - Program Evaluation

Jonas Salk, medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, once said, “Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answers.” Let’s talk to a couple of people asking the right questions here at St. Joseph’s Indian School.

Hochoka Fresh Perspectives on Catholicism Part I – The Red Heifer Ceremony

What do Jesus, the ancient Red Heifer Ceremony, White Buffalo Calf Woman and Black Elk have in common? More importantly, what deeper connections between Lakota Spirituality and Catholicism does this reveal? Let’s find out in a conversation with Dr. Damian Costello.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 6 - Survival Songs of This Lakota Poet

“Give me a glimpse of what could be – not to ponder what might have been – reveal the blush of dawn – overlook the thorns beneath the rose – welcome the glow of winter’s stars – to laugh and play in drifts of snow – kindle that gentle beauty and pray when night and quiet come.” The poem called “Hope” is from “Survival Songs,” poetry by Lydia Whirlwind Soldier on her Native American boarding school experience.