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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.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 5 - Memory Songs of This Lakota Poet

“I retreat to the edge of dreams, empty my heart of haunting fears. I fly with the red-tail hawk along the bank of rolling thunderheads into the mysteries of prayer.” This is poetry that gives voice to the Lakota Way with heart-stirring imaginative power. Join our conversation with Lakota Poet Lydia Whirlwind Soldier.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 4 - Bookmobile Revisited

How is it that a seminarian from Vietnam and a business major from Ft. Myers, Florida, find themselves traveling through Indian Country of the Northern Plains distributing books? Let’s find out.

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 3 - Well, Then. What About Indigenous Evaluationi

As Native communities across the country reclaim their narratives and embrace their cultural heritages, our work at St. Joseph’s Indian School has become increasingly enriched through Indigenous ways of knowing. It is time to ask, “Well, then, what about an indigenous evaluation framework for our students?” Listen to our conversation with Dr. Melanie Nadeau

Hochoka Season 6, Episode 2 - What's All This Talk About Indigenous Ways of Knowing

What’s all this talk about Indigenous ways of knowing? Why should a school for Native American students seek to develop measurements of student achievement based on Indigenous knowledge systems? Let’s talk Dr. Melanie Nadeau, who can help us appreciate this complex topic.