Hey! My name is Kristin Sawyer. I am a junior from Ojai CA and a biology major here at CC, with a possible religion minor.
they put penguins in sweaters after oil spills and i think it is the cutest ever…
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- About IRT
- Ceremony Reflections
- A Fragmented Approach to Ceremony
- A Native American Church Birthday Ceremony: Critical Analysis of Spiritual Coincidences
- An Exploration of Turner’s Ceremonial Framework
- Coincidence in Ritual
- Combining Academic and Personal Interpretation
- Comparative Ceremony Reflections
- Finding a Balance
- Frame, Flow, and Focus
- From Logic to Chaos
- Importance of Experience
- Meaning in Nothing
- More than just Science
- Our Culture Cures Us…
- Performance and Ceremony
- Pieces to the Puzzle
- Pilgrimage to Bear Butte.
- Practical and Spiritual Understanding
- Raising Prayer Through Voices
- Reflection and Analysis of My First Sweat Lodge
- Religion: The Idea of Control and Unity
- Religious Performance and Plural Reflection
- Sacred Star Beings in Yuwipi: How Cultural Values Manifest in Ceremony and Living Beyond Analysis and Individuality
- Scholarly Lens vs. Experience
- Sensory Performance and Collaborative Liminal Space
- SMITH’S ACCIDENTS IN RITUAL: And A Case Study of the Lakota Tribe
- Strong Emotions in the Lakota Sweat Lodge
- Sweat and Place
- Sweat Lodge Reflection
- Sweat Lodge Tension: The Ritualized Perfection
- The Academic Approach to Understanding Sacred Ceremony
- The Beauty of Coincidence
- The Lakota Sweat Lodge: Integrating Theory and Experience
- The Outside Perspective Against the Inside
- The Power of Ritual
- Third Eye Molting
- Truth in Ritual: Imagining Reality
- Universal Ritual?
- Wisdom, Experience, and Bear Butte as a Sacred Model
- Yuwipe
- “Get Up From the Armchair”: Applying Smith’s Academic Analysis of Ritual in Conjunction with Personal Experience
- Independent Projects
- Dance as Ritual
- Devil’s Tower: Contested Sacred Land
- Elders
- Facebook Activism and Native American Religious Freedom in Prison
- Ghost Dance and Sun Dance
- Indigenous People and Globalization
- Lakota Language: Art, Oral Tradition, and Language Structure
- Leslie Marmon Silko-Ceremony
- Mad Tea Party
- Manifesting Stories – Reflecting on the Web
- Maps: An Exploration of Indigenous North American Cartography
- Musica & Words
- Native American Cuisine!
- Native American Poems
- Native Americans in Cinema
- Native Americans in Comedy
- Native Identity, Oppression, and Resistance
- Native View of the Cause of Illness
- Native Visionary Experience
- Paula Gunn Allen and the Feminine in Indigenous Traditions
- Peyote in Native American Traditions
- Poetry Inspired by Pine Ridge
- Sacred and Medicinal Plants of Native America
- Spiritual Coincidence
- Sweat Lodge Art Project
- The Sacred Hoop as inspiration for the feminist movement and myself
- The Web of Life
- Traditional Lakota Games and Toys
- Virtual Scrapbook and Mike Littleboy Sr.’s Story
- Vision Quest Traditions
- Youtube It!
- Introducing Ourselves
- *Bruce
- Anela Minuth
- Caitlyn
- Courtney Blackmer-Raynolds
- Ellen Smith
- Em Naranjo
- Emily
- Evie Aaron
- Haley Montgomery
- Hannah Freyer
- Harrison Rosenfeld
- Heather Ezell
- jac attack
- Justine
- Kate Vukovich
- Kir like the drink
- Kristin
- Laura E Sullivan
- Lauren Schneider
- Lucy!
- Mark Riley
- Mr. David Huston Scott
- Rachel Macdonald
- Reed Snyderman
- Robert Prior
- Sam Seiniger
- Zoe Kian Santos
- Sacred Lands Project
- A Spiritual Battle in Michigan’s U.P
- Achuar and the Amazon Basin
- Achuar Fight for Survival
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Badger-Two Medicine
- Bear Island
- Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming
- Bijagós Archipelagos
- Black Hills – Stories of the Sacred
- Black Mesa
- Black Mesa and the Navajo Aquifer
- Blue Lake and Rio Pueblo de Taos
- Cave Rock
- Chickaloon Village
- Chimney Rock, CA
- Chimney Rock- A Loss of the Holy
- Desert People
- Devils Tower–Climbing on Sacred Land
- Duluwat Island.
- Emeryville Shellmound
- Haskell-Baker Wetlands
- Hawaiian Land in Hawaiian Hands: Restoring Kaho’olawe
- Hidden Valleys
- Indigenous People of Arctic Russia
- Machu Picchu
- Mauna Kea
- Medicine Lake Highlands
- Morro Rock, CA
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Tenabo, Nevada
- Ocmulgee Old Fields
- Rainbow Bridge
- Rainbow Bridge: Is It Still Sacred?
- Sacred Land
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Salmon as a Sacred Resource in the Klamath River
- San Bruno Mountain Shellmound
- Seminole Tribal Land
- Snoqualmie Falls, WA
- Sutter Buttes: The Middle Mountain Controvery
- Taos Blue Lake
- The Battle Over Fish Lake
- The confluence of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River: Escalade Development
- The Controversy of Uluru
- The Heights of Machu Picchu
- The Hill of Tara
- The Hill of Tara, Wholly Endangered
- The Oka Crisis
- The Old Salt Woman: Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico
- The Sacred Headwaters
- The Sami Reindeer Herders of Sweden
- Tosodilo Hills
- Tsodilo Hills: The Invisible San Experience
- Uluru from All Angles: The Modern Controversy of Climbing the Sacred
- Uluru/Ayers Rock
- Upper Skagit Tribe
- Vatican Observatory VS San Carlos Apache Sacred Land
- Ward Valley and the Sacred Desert Tortoise
- Weatherman Draw
- Wirikuta: The Point of No Return
- Woodruff Butte, Arizona
- Xingu Tribes and the Belo Monte Dam
- Zuni Salt Lake
- •Lakota Stories
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- American Indian Law Center
- Foster Care Scandal for Lakota Children: NPR Reports
- Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation: A TED talk by Aaron Huey
- Native American Rights Fund
- Pine Ridge Children-ABC News
- Pine Ridge-Littleboy Family History
- Sacred Land Film Project
- White Horse Circle
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