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- Outsider Inside Sweat
- “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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- Anela Minuth
- Becca Adams
- Ben Feldman
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- Caitlyn
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- Ellen Smith
- Em Naranjo
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- emma brachtenbach
- Evie Aaron
- Gus Griffin
- Haley Montgomery
- Hannah Freyer
- Harrison Rosenfeld
- Heather Ezell
- Helen Wick
- Isaac Radner
- jac attack
- Jake Brodsky
- James Terhune
- Jean Sung
- Justine
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- Kate Vukovich
- Kir like the drink
- Kristin
- Laura E Sullivan
- 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
- Robin Berk
- 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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