The hochokaaudio’s Podcast

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!

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 14 - Fresh Perspectives on Catholicism, Part I – The Ghost Dance and Salvation

Some critics of Christianity find a connection between a Christian perspective that places humankind over and other than the created world and the shaky ecological health of our planet. Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk and the Ghost Dance tradition say “Not so quick.”

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 13 - Talking Thiyóšpaye, Part II – Native American Education 360°

What can the former Chaplain and Director of St. Joseph’s Indian School tell us about the Native American education that takes place here when we look back, at the present and ahead to the future?

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 12 - Talking Thiyóšpaye, Part I – Getting to Know You, Again

What do Star Trek, the Chicago White Socks and social activist Dorothy Day have in common? We’re about to find out as we talk with Fr. Steve Huffstetter, SCJ.