may term sst
November 20, 2025
Lessons from local Indigenous history
The Local Indigenous Cultures and Perspectives SST course hosted its first cohort this year. This was due to several misfortunes with Goshen College partners in Arizona, which meant that SSTers were not able to immerse themselves in the culture of the Navajo and Hopi people. With the number of changes that had been undertaken before the group was supposed to depart, Jerrell Richer, co-director of global engagement, and his colleague Kendra Yoder quickly changed direction and were able to find connections locally. “[The group] started the program by living at Camp Friedenswald across the state line in Michigan,” Richer said....