Hóčhoka Podcast

Hochoka Season 8, Episode 2 - 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 8 Teaser

Don't miss Hóčhoka Season 8 when:
Former President, Mike Tyrell, new CEO, Jennifer Renner-Meyer, and incoming President, Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ, set the vision for the future
Chris Hoklotubbe and Dr. Damian Costello join us once again to enrich the Christian perspective with Indigenous wisdom.
Three alumni from different eras are with us “talking thiyóšpaye.”
We learn about the American Indian Catholic Schools Network from its Director, William Newkirk.
We enjoy highlights from several of the school’s best programs, including Lakota Language Preservation, Visiting Artists, and the Bookmobile.

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.

Hochoka 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?

Hochoka Season 7, Special Edition - Remembering Joseph Marshall III

Today we bear profound grief on the wings of deep gratitude as we invite you to join 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. Let’s learn more.

Hochoka Season 7, Episode 15 - 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!