Mary Annette Pember is a Red Cliff Ojibwe journalist and national correspondent for ICT News. So, what’s the traditional purpose and intention behind sage smudging? Where did the practice originate?

Smudging is the cultural practice of burning ... who is a Johnson High School Alumni and a member of Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe, "For me, it really helps to recenter, ground myself, to clear ...

"I took a few Ojibwe classes a few years ago," Smith said ... adding that they also practice smudging, a Native American tradition that involves cleansing a space to invite positive energy ...

(Harbour Publishing) Ojibway author Drew Hayden Taylor says he doesn't understand why the Indigenous practice of smudging is being equated with religious rituals. A mother in Port Alberni ...

DULUTH — It’s a little after 8 a.m. on a gray Friday when Waabigwanikwe kneels in the center of a gaggle of students at Lowell Elementary School and unpacks a brightly colored bag. Inside ...

including smudging, a cleansing ceremony that involves the burning of sage, sweet grass, cedar and tobacco. He will tell the Ojibwe creation story and demonstrate and involve the children in ...

"We'll smudge to open things up for the day and we talk about things like the name of the month in Ojibwe," she said. The language is woven into the way she's teaching her students about the world.

$18.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-77162-133-5 Prominent Ojibway author Wagamese (Indian ... ritual of entering a new day with prayer and a smudge of sage, sweet grass, tobacco and cedar.

With external stressors and pressure from modern life at an all-time high, many are turning to the ancient, time-tested technique of smudging. “Smudging is becoming more common in the modern ...

Mary Kunesh (DFL-New Brighton). This bill, S.F. 2998, would permit Indigenous students to smudge in Minnesota public schools with staff supervision. Prior to the introduction of this bill ...

Smudging, a traditional Indigenous practice involving the burning of sacred herbs, is an important part of life for many Indigenous students at the University of Michigan. However, students say ...