Sightings Articles

Dakota Access Pipeline | environmentalism | Faith Spotted Eagle | Native Americans | sacred space | Sioux Nation | Standing Rock

Sacred Sites Violated

What if the Sioux Nation decided to build a pipeline through Arlington Cemetery? This question from Faith Spotted Eagle—who lacks a Ph.D. in comparative religion and who would never be employed to teach the phenomenology of burial ritual—got at the h...

February 13, 2017

Faith Spotted Eagle | Rosebud Sioux | Keystone Pipeline | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation | suicide | Indian Health Service | Lakota Sioux | Oglala Sioux | cyber-bullying | teenager-fad contagion | suicide prevention | Slender Man | Tall Man Spirit | suicide spirit | Native Americans

Sioux Suicides

Sightings of religion-related stories among members of Sioux tribes in South Dakota, one would think, could be beyond the scope of the national media, yet two independent stories win space this week on the front pages of, e.g., The New York Times. ...

May 11, 2015