Over 80 years serving Lakota children

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It is difficult to conceive, walking the manicured grounds of St. Joseph's Indian School, how many trials the small educational facility has endured since 1927.

The blue-green stretch of Missouri River here offers no hint of the dust storms and grasshopper plagues of the Great Depression. The tall trees catching the morning sun don't speak of the tornadoes of 1930 and 1931. And, the buzzing of children playing makes it hard to remember the crackle of fires or bang of hammers rebuilding through the years.

Click on the links below and travel back into history as we tell the story of St. Joseph's Indian School.