From The Road: 562 Blog

  1. Students Pledge To Protect Each Other Post Trump

    “Hi!” His greeting was warm but anxious. “Thank you so much for coming to our university this morning, let me show you into our multi-cultural center. Students have gathered here to support one another. We’re sorry to put you in this position, but do you think you could speak with…

  2. You Need to Know Sho Sho

    Everybody needs some Sho Sho in their life. This otherworldly fashion designer adorns your body in ancestrally timeless haute couture while enriching your spirit in natural wonderment. It’s as if her work comes from the dream world, and those of us here on earth can only marvel at its origin…

  3. Still Native Land: Understanding the Movement at Standing Rock

    The land being protected at Standing Rock Sioux holds the resting bones of the Sioux, Hidatsa, Mandan, Lakota, Nakota and Dakota people. Wherever our bones rest, our ceremonies live. Our histories and stories are intertwined with our identity, and to us, our native identity is inextricably connected to land. The…

  4. We Are Not Protestors, We Are Protectors: Peace, Prayer, Love and War at Standing Rock Sioux

    Last week Project 562 arrived at the ancestral territory of the Hunkpapa Oceti, also known as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. We came to stand in solidarity with our relatives, steadfast in their efforts to protect their land from the poisonous black snake called the Dakota Access…

  5. Miss Indian Nations Eloquently Helps Us to Understand the Meaning of the Dance

    Miss Indian Nations 20, Shannon Hooper, Paiute Shoshone from Fallon, Nevada speaks with eloquence and beauty when she explains the significance of the fancy shawl dance for pow wow Project 562 is grateful to Shannon Hooper and all of the ladies of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation for sharing their message…