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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Toka is an Indigenous sport played by the Piipaash (Maricopa) and Akimel O’odham (Pima) nations. This traditional game is experiencing a resurgence thanks to passionate athletes like April Morago. When...

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Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award

In October, several members of the ACE and IEI team traveled to Modesto, California to present the 2025 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education to Joseph, Ofelia...

Annual Red Ribbon Week at St. Joseph’s Indian School

(Chamberlain, S.D.) – Friday, October 22, marked the beginning of St. Joseph's Indian School's annual observance of Red Ribbon Week. Students enjoyed late afternoon pizza with a movie in the...

October 31, 2021

Learning and Growing with the LEI: More Than Just Latino Enrollment

When Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., started the Latino Enrollment Institute (LEI) in 2012, he was not sure what it would become, nor exactly how he would even pull it off...

October 22, 2021

The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program - University of Notre Dame

"Be curious, not judgmental" - (Not) Walt Whitman

59 years ago this week, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address at Cornell College in Iowa. This address was noteworthy for a number of reasons, perhaps chief among...

October 19, 2021

Two Native Colleagues from St. Joseph's Receive National Honors

(Chamberlain, S.D.) – 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...

October 14, 2021

Hector Curiel visits St. Jospeh Indian School

Visiting Artist Captures Character, Caricatures of Students at St. Joseph Indian School

(Chamberlain, S.D.) – When he arrived in town, Hector Curriel went for a walk as he pondered the subject for his artist’s residency with grades 3 through 5 at St...

October 12, 2021

Class during COVID at St. Joseph Mission School in San Fidel, NM

In San Fidel our mission school bell rings at 8am, taking the term “bell schedule” literally where each week our students take turns to ring the bell through a rope...

October 5, 2021

Attention is the beginning of devotion

Attention is the beginning of devotion. This line from one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, punctuates the title piece in a collection of her essays called Upstream. Fundamental to...

October 4, 2021

LEI Mentor Spotlight: Getting to Know Jeanne Von Feldt

Mentor principals have played a critical role in the success of the Latino Enrollment Institute (LEI) since the program’s inception in 2012. The experience, accountability, and personal attention that these...

September 29, 2021

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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award