A Little Book of Medicines and Smudge

This little booklet gently helps you become familiar with Indigenous spirituality as it pertains to the act of ‘smudging’, ‘communicating and connecting through the smoke of our medicines’, ‘oién:kwara’, ‘atisamán’, ‘eligp’ta’q’. Using our medicines, using our ancestors’ language.

Inside you’ll find my Smudge Prayer, instructions on how to grow tobacco, harvesting by original teachings, suggestions on the process of using feathers in smudge, Dawn’s recipe for Cedar Tea, original instructions for harvesting medicine and gratitude prose for our four sacred medicines.

If we don’t keep teaching each other, we will forget, and if you’re just returning home to culture and knowledge, this will be a gentle start. “My only hope is that by spreading gratitude and love, we will help each other strengthen our connections with Creation and each other and move forward with new generations of empowered, kind and humble Indigenous spirits”. 

“We must learn to see each other the way the Moon sees the Sun, vastly different and equally important. This way of thinking is important when living ‘with Good Mind’.