Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 21

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Hóčhoka Season 9 Episode 21

Native American Day and Culture Education at St. Joseph’s Indian School

October 12, 2026 | S9E21 | 21:31

Native American Day is every day at St. Joseph’s Indian School, but the official observance gives us an opportunity to celebrate in special ways. In this episode, Sharla Krogman, Associate Native American Studies Teacher, highlights the activities taking place throughout Native American Day week and shares how she helps first through fourth-grade students explore and connect with their Native culture through meaningful lessons and experiences.

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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.