Native Americans have fought for the right to engage in their religious practices.
In the United States, the freedom to exercise one’s spiritual beliefs is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Sadly, people from Indigenous cultures have faced multiple avenues of di…
Smudging involves the burning of herbs or other kinds of plant matter.
Sage smudging is used for a wide variety of purposes by people following traditional Indigenous spiritual paths as well as New Age, Neopagan and various shamanic belief systems. To fully underst…
Ceremonial pipes factored into the religious and social lives of many cultures.
What is a “peace pipe”? When asked this question, some may conjure up mental images of Indigenous people from cartoons, old Western movies, and books who smoked these pipes with Eur…