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“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!

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 dar...

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.

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.

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.” Listen as she and Joseph Marshall III discuss what it is like to be a Lakota Elder.

“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.

“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.

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...

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.

“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 sch...

“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.

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.

In an era when so many elementary educational institutions are cutting back on physical education and healthy activity, St. Joseph’s Indian School’s holistic approach to student health and wellness spurred us to undertake updates to our Rec Center. Our Native American Students, staff and families are overjoyed with the completion of Phase One

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?”

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

Season 6, Episode 1 - Talking Thiyóšpaye Part I - I Am on a Turtle’s Walk

Season 6 - Teaser

Native American Fashion Show at St. Joseph's Indian School

Season 5, Episode 16 - Native American Literature, Part III - Nurturing Young Illustrators

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Season 5, Episode 15 - Native American Literature, Part II - Words Painting Pictures

Season 5, Episode 14 - Residential Education, Part IV - A Recipe for Successful Adult Life

Season 5, Episode 13 - Lessons from the Bow and Arrow, Part III - Strength and Resiliency

Season 5, Episode I2 - Lessons from the Bow and Arrow, Part II - Simplicity and Purpose

Season 5, Episode 11 - Lessons from the Bow and Arrow, Part I - Transformation with Joseph Marshall

Season 5, Episode 10 - Perspectives, Part IV - Sundance and the Paschal Mysteries

Season 5, Episode 9 - The Spirit that Inspires Us, Part II - What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up

Season 5, Episode 8 - Fresh Perspectives, Part III - St. Patrick, Celtic and Indigenous

Season 5, Episode 7 - Fresh Perspectives - Would the Read St. Patrick Please Stand Up?