Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 20

Truth and Healing at St. Joseph’s Indian School

September 28, 2026 | S9E20 | 21:38

In this episode of Hóčhoka, Joe Tyrell, Director of Mission Integration, discusses how St. Joseph’s Indian School creates a safe place for truth and healing for students and families experiencing the intergenerational effects of boarding schools. He also shares how the school honors Orange Shirt Day and provides staff with opportunities to grow in understanding and support the work of truth and healing.

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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.