Sculptor Darwin Wolf Sculpts Prairie Life with Students

Air-dry clay was the medium and sixth through eighth-grade students at St. Joseph’s Indian School were the artists who enjoyed the guidance and wisdom of visiting artist Sculptor Darwin Wolf. Their task: create sculptures of the animals who inhabit the South Dakota...

St. Joseph’s Celebrates Native American Week

As the sun peaked over the dark eastern horizon, bright shades of red and yellow, fringed by the white edge of a band of stratocumulus clouds spelled out “This is Native American Day,” in the traditional colors of the Lakota people. Thirty minutes after the sun rose,...

Two Native Colleagues Receive National Honors

A sincere sense of self is the character trait shared by two St. Joseph’s Indian School colleagues that made them standouts to win national awards announced at the Coalition on Residential Excellence (CORE) Banquet in Mooseheart, Ill., Wednesday evening, October 13,...

Blessing the Animals at St. Joseph’s

As birds gathered above the Wisdom Circle on the campus of St. Joseph’s Indian School on October 4, Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment, students and staff did the same below on the dewy morning grass. At the center of the...