Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 9

MMIR Awareness at St. Joseph’s Indian School

April 27th, 2026 | S9E9 | 18:45

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Day is May 5. For several years, a student-initiated recognition project has honored those who are missing. Amanda Hermeling joins Scott Woster to talk about this year’s event and tips for staying safe.

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Scott Woster

Who do you get when you take a wide-eyed guy with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from North Dakota State University and pair him with small-town Chamberlain, S.D., and St. Joseph’s Indian School?

  • Nearly 30 years of love and dedication to the students, the families and other staff and their stories through his work as a Family Service Counselor
  • A 2006 marriage to Sičáŋǧu Lakota Native American Studies Teacher for the school, LaRayne, and her three teenage daughters
  • The 2008 birth of a daughter to the family
  • Hóčhoka Podcast Host Scott Woster

Scott calls all of this a way-of-life he’d trade for no other. The son of a South Dakota journalist and nurse mother, he makes every stint in the Hóčhoka podcast studio a moment of passionately sharing the St. Joseph’s Indian School story.