Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 10

St. Joseph's Indian School
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Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 10

Cultural Trip

May 11th, 2026 | S9E10 | 20:45

Each year, seventh graders at St. Joseph’s Indian School take a trip to visit sites significant to the Native American Culture. This trip has become a cornerstone of the Native American Studies Program. The sites the student learns about become real when they walk in the steps of their ancestors.

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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.