Mohiigan (Kiehtan), Maïngan Deity News: Herbs are Tobacco, Sweet grass, Sage, Herbs and NOT Cigarettes!

5/13/11

Herbs are Tobacco, Sweet grass, Sage, Herbs and NOT Cigarettes!

Native American Herbs and Tobacco is still the number one question out on the Internet!

As with Native American names, one should never have to pay for any Sacred Herbs.

Herbs not previously blessed from Creator, are not yet Sacred.

Native American Tobacco is Kinnick~Kinnick, Sweet grass, or Sage.

You can always purchase non sacred Native American Tobacco ( Kinnick-Kinnick) on line if you trust the site, or you can purchase Kinnick-Kinnick at your local powwow gathering.

Please remember, there is nothing sacred about any chemical, they are all poison so, what you would be saying if gifting a cigarette as tobacco to this person would be, I do not think enough about you to give safe tobacco, I poison you!

My ancestors were simple common sense people.

Their tobacco was grown without chemicals, the ancestors did not need them!

Today our elders know that cigarettes cause cancer, even if they smoke, someone that they know and love has died a horrible death from this cancer.

Please do not insult them by an offering of a cancer causing cigarette.

Will you please use Kinnick~ Kinnick (herbs)?

If you do not know how to get a name or herbs that have been blessed correctly, never buy a name or herbs! Creator is watching!

Only Creator can Bless a name or herbs, or anything else for that matter.

Back before first contact Traditional Native American Tobacco was not ever used for smoking, Period!

This tobacco was much too strong for smoking!

The Europeans mixed chemicals into tobacco making it smooth enough to get hooked on!

The only exception to smoking our herbs was in our Friendship pipe, this would show a true interest about the making of friends, even then it was not inhaled!

Native American Tobacco has many uses however, all of these uses are for the good of the people, never for harm as with smoking!

How did native Americans clean peace pipes?

If this is at an Eastern Woodland American Native Ceremony, the pipe is never cleaned as a European would clean a pipe, a pipe keeper will either take the pipe out or pass it to a trusted student of the pipe, to Mother Earth and by way of our sacred ceremony, give the tobacco (Kinnick~ Kinnick) back to her, Mother Earth.