Indian Mission

Sapa Un Catholic Academy is home to 40 Lakota students on the Rosebud Lakota Reservation. In August, it commenced its fourth year of a comprehensive and holistic approach to growing students and supporting their families.

The co-ed school enrolls students in kindergarten and provides a nurturing space for educational advancement through grade 12. While Sapa Un’s ultimate goal is to prepare students for college, the cross-curriculum emphasis on critical subjects, native tongue, and Catholic faith.

Three Franciscan sisters are reaching out to inactive Catholics on the Standing Rock Reservation.

St Kateri Tekakwitha Mission Church has had a few months of both excitement and sadness.

Having been a part of our parishes almost his whole life and being a member of the Omaha Tribe, Deacon Don Blackbird’s ordination is a big blessing.

Monsignor Stephan and the Indian Schools

Second in a series of historical reflections by Tim Lanigan

As a youth, Black Elk received a great vision to serve Wakantanka, the Great Spirit, and he became a great healer among the Lakota people.