South Dakota school provides hope

St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, S.D. thrums and hums with happy talk and laughter as Thanksgiving and Christmas draw closer.

Even though these children are far from Cheney, you can sense their enthusiasm as they dream of receiving and giving gifts.

In a letter I recently received in the mail, Father J. Anthony Kluckman, SCJ chaplain of the school, gives us a brief picture of Emily, one of the students.

“Emily is 8 years old and came to us a year ago,” Kluckman writes. “You could see the hopelessness in her dark brown eyes. At St. Joseph’s, Emily lives in a loving home provided by th...