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- “Get Up From the Armchair”: Applying Smith’s Academic Analysis of Ritual in Conjunction with Personal Experience
- A Fragmented Approach to Ceremony
- A Native American Church Birthday Ceremony: Critical Analysis of Spiritual Coincidences
- A Physical Religion
- A Reflection on Flow and Sweat
- An Exploration of Turner’s Ceremonial Framework
- Breaking the Circle
- Ceremony Project: The Power of Setting
- Ceremony Reflection: Music in Sweat Lodge
- Circles in Lakota Ceremony
- Combining Academic and Personal Interpretation
- Comparative Ceremony Reflections
- Does the Lakota sweat ceremony provide a sense of place?
- Experiences in the Sweat Lodge: Body Versus Mind
- Finding a Balance
- Fleeting Profundity in the Third Sweat
- Flow and Lakota Sweat Lodge Ceremony
- Flow and the Sweat Lodge
- Frame, Flow, and Focus
- From Logic to Chaos
- Importance of Experience
- Meaning in Nothing
- Melting: Uniting Ethics and Metaphysics through Embodied Ritual
- More than just Science
- On the Question of Authenticity
- Our Culture Cures Us…
- Performance and Ceremony
- Pieces to the Puzzle
- Pilgrimage to Bear Butte.
- Pine Ridge: The Three Stages of Liminality
- 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
- Ritual and Experience in Yuwipi
- Sacred Star Beings in Yuwipi: How Cultural Values Manifest in Ceremony and Living Beyond Analysis and Individuality
- Scholarly Lens vs. Experience
- Searching For Perfection
- Sensory Performance and Collaborative Liminal Space
- SMITH’S ACCIDENTS IN RITUAL: And A Case Study of the Lakota Tribe
- Smudging, Geertz, and Ceremony
- Strong Emotions in the Lakota Sweat Lodge
- Suffering Through Prayer: When Ceremony Models the Secular
- Sweat and Place
- Sweat Lodge as a Response to Suffering Examined Via Clifford Geertz’s Definition of Religion
- Sweat Lodge Reflection
- Sweat Lodge Tension: The Ritualized Perfection
- Sweat sweat sweat, hot hot hot
- The Academic Approach to Understanding Sacred Ceremony
- The Beauty of Coincidence
- The Ebb and Flow of Flow
- The Lakota Sweat Lodge: Integrating Theory and Experience
- The Outside Perspective Against the Inside
- The Power of Contradiction: Aligning the Ideal and the Actual through the Sweat Ceremony
- The Power of Ritual
- The Sacred in Sweat
- Third Eye Molting
- To Live Again
- Truth in Ritual: Imagining Reality
- Unfocused Lenses
- Universal Ritual?
- Wisdom, Experience, and Bear Butte as a Sacred Model
- Yuwipe
- Independent Projects
- Arts and Crafts of Indigenous Peoples in North America
- 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
- Indigenous Religions and Christianity: Acculturation and Assimilation–A summary
- Inikagapi & Hanblecheyapi
- Lakota Beadwork and the Medicine Wheel
- Lakota Crafts: Significance of Dream Catchers and Prayer Ties
- Lakota Language
- Lakota Language: Art, Oral Tradition, and Language Structure
- Learning Re-embodiment Through the Lakota Tradition
- Leslie Marmon Silko-Ceremony
- Mad Tea Party
- Manifesting Stories – Reflecting on the Web
- Maps: An Exploration of Indigenous North American Cartography
- Media Team, 2014 edition
- Music and Trance
- 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
- Storytelling and the Lakota People
- 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
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- Ellen Smith
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- Haley Montgomery
- Hannah Freyer
- Harrison Rosenfeld
- Heather Ezell
- Helen Wick
- Isaac Radner
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- Kir like the drink
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- Lauren Schneider
- Lucy!
- Lydia’s Introduction
- Maggie Dillon
- Maia Wikler
- Mark Riley
- Melissa
- Mr. David Huston Scott
- Nicole Pey
- Rachel Macdonald
- Reed Snyderman
- RJ Silberman
- Robby Dohrn
- Robert Prior
- Sam LaRochelle Winton
- Tommyboy Crowe
- Whitney Larkins Perry
- Zoe Kian Santos
- IRT Logistics
- Sacred Lands Project
- A Spiritual Battle in Michigan’s U.P
- Achuar and the Amazon Basin
- Achuar Fight for Survival
- Alberta Tar Sands
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Badger-Two Medicine
- Badger-Two Medicine, pt. 2
- Bear Island
- Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming
- Bijagós Archipelagos
- Birney, Mt. and the Proposed Otter Creek Coal Mine
- 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- A Loss of the Holy
- Chimney Rock, CA
- Desert People
- Devils Tower–Climbing on Sacred Land
- Duluwat Island.
- Elwha River: Sanctified by Salmon
- Emeryville Shellmound
- Emeryville’s Burried Shellmounds
- Fish Lake: Environmentalism as a Common Language
- 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
- Miwok Artifacts Found in Larkspur, California
- Morro Rock, CA
- Mount Graham
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Taylor
- Mount Tenabo, Nevada
- Nine Mile Canyon
- Ocmulgee Old Fields
- Peel Watershed Preservation
- Penobscot Nation and their River
- Rainbow Bridge
- Rainbow Bridge: Is It Still Sacred?
- Sacred Land
- Sacred Lands Project: Success After Death
- Sacred Mist of Snoqualmie Falls
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Salmon as a Sacred Resource in the Klamath River
- San Bruno Mountain Shellmound
- Seminole Tribal Land
- Shasta Dam and the Winnemem Wintu People
- Snoqualmie Falls, WA
- Snoqualmie Falls: Sacred Grounds Transformed by the Power of Technology
- Sutter Buttes: The Middle Mountain Controvery
- Taos Blue Lake
- The Arizona Snowbowl: Flushing a Religion Down the Toilet
- The Battle Over Fish Lake
- The Black Hills: Mount Rushmore versus Crazy Horse Memorial
- The confluence of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River: Escalade Development
- The Controversy of Uluru
- The Effect of the Governmental Understanding of the Sacred on Tribal Relations
- The Heights of Machu Picchu
- The Hill of Tara
- The Hill of Tara, Wholly Endangered
- The Lens of Scarcity amongst the Haida
- The Oka Crisis
- The Old Salt Woman: Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico
- The Sacred Headwaters
- The Sami Reindeer Herders of Sweden
- The Yakutat Forelands
- Tongariro National Park, New Zealand; the Struggle to Protect Waahi Tapu
- Tongariro National Park:The Implications of a Joint National Park and Sacred Site
- 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
- Valmont Butte: The Meeting of People, Valleys, Mountains, Rivers, Earth and Sky
- 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
- Yucca Mountain
- Yucca Mountain
- Yucca Mountain and the Proposed Nuclear Waste Storage Site
- Zuni Salt Lake
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Author Archives: bcoriell
The First Day of Class (Mark’s blog from the CC featured course page)
The First Day of Class The first day of class. Remember how you used to get those dreams that you would forget to wear your clothes to school? I get those sort of dreams before a block starts. Except instead … Continue reading
Posted in Block 3: 2012-13
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Welcome to IRT-Block 3 (Oct 31, 2011)
This is my second time teaching this course and I couldn’t be more excited. This course seeks to understand the importance of land, ceremony and identity in contemporary native spiritual traditions. Our trip to the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation during … Continue reading
Posted in Block 3: 2011-12, Course news
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taking it for granted
Like many of us, I had a very interesting experience coming back from Pine Ridge. Almost immediately after arriving on campus, my brain switched into 19-year-old-college-student mode. The weekend was eventful, albiet presenting a bit of a culture clash. I … Continue reading
Posted in Block 5: 2010-11
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Post-Pine Ridge troubles and euphoria
written by Sam (posted by Bruce) Jumping back into life at CC after our pine ridge field trip was a lot harder than I was expecting. Even though we were only gone for a week, coming back feels like I … Continue reading
Posted in Block 5: 2010-11
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A few days in…
Two days into the course and so far so good. Am really looking forward to next week in Pine Ridge 🙂 Hopefully Thursday will be a good introduction to what we have to look forward to (and what we’ll have … Continue reading
Posted in Block 5: 2010-11
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Intro
http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/IndigenousTraditions Register your account at sites.coloradocollege.edu Once I’ve added you visit your course cms log in to sites.coloradocollege.edu/IndigenousTraditions/wp-admin/ Create a Page for yourself and make it a child page of the Introduce Yourself Page Create a reflection post with the “Reflection” … Continue reading
