Hi! My name is Lauren! I a senior sociology major and education minor. I lived in Singapore and Switzerland until 5th grade when moved to Santa Fe, NM. I love to play the guitar, play tennis, sing, cook, hike, and dance! I teach Zumba and am involved with mental health advocacy on campus.
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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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When are your Zumba classes?
Fridays at 5. See you there.
hey hey, Philosophy of Emotions summer 2011! fun ride, right?
Your Zumba class is the bomb! See you on friday