Sacred Heart Church

The Church Jonathan attends in Lancaster PA has a sister church on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and we volunteered to do a free show for their family night as a way of helping out.

Something I found interesting about the reservation church was how they incorporated Lakota culture, traditions, art and folklore into the decorations of the church. For example, paintings of Jesus and Mary depict them as Lakota tribes people, and the stations of the cross are mounted on round cuts of cedar wood, which is significant to Lakota traditions.

It was a fairly small audience at the show, but they laughed loud and hard, so it felt great to us! After the show we were each presented with gifts of beaded art from a local artist.

After the show, we acquired a taste for Lakota food with stew, fried Indian bread, and my new favorite food, Wojapi. Wojapi is basicly a pudding made with berries, and this one was made with buffalo berries, (a shrub grown berry that's bitter until there's been frost), the first in the season. It's served warm, and it's tart, and delicious!