Value Our Traditions

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Native Americans share their personal experiences and challenges of quitting commercial tobacco and reclaiming sacred tobacco.

Native Americans share their personal experiences and challenges of quitting commercial tobacco and reclaiming sacred tobacco.


27 Pieces

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Battle to be a Non-Smoker
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Lana acknowledges that remaining a non-smoker is hard, even though her health is doing so much better than before she quit.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Showing Concern for Young
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Jeff talks about the wide diversity of uses for tobacco that he sees in Indian country: from completely ceremonial use to total addicted uses.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Using Tobacco as an Offering
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Jeffrey shares his relief of using tobacco as an offering in ceremony, rather than being addicted to smoking.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Vision Leads Behavior
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Frank shares how ceremony and vision, helped him break the habit of smoking.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Wanting to Quit
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Justice talks about how he keeps trying to quit smoking, and hopes to give it up soon, so he can set a good example for his daughters.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Replacing Smoking with Exercise
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Gary shares how he finally quit smoking after becoming an avid runner.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Losing the Desire to Smoke
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After quitting twenty years ago, Teresa says everyone must find their own way to giving up smoking.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Receiving Prayers
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Lana speaks about the feeling of receiving a prayer when she smokes her traditional tobacco as part of ceremony.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Making the Transition to the Sacred
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David shares how he gave up commercial tobacco, and now only uses Sacred tobacco.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Leaving Smoking Behind
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Jennifer says as an ex-smoker, she knows she is a puff away from a pack a day.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Using Ceremonial Pipes
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Jeff talks about being a ceremonial pipe maker and how people use their pipes in their daily lives.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Offering A Part of Yourself
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Robert talks about how sacred tobacco is one of the grounding and initial parts of his culture.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Learning the Traditional Way
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Robert shares how he learned about ceremony, by asking respectful questions from the time he was a young boy.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Against the Law until 1978
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Matthew speaks about how all sacred tobacco and ceremony was outlawed until 1978, and how important it is to reclaim spiritual and cultural traditi...

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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The Breath of Life
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Matthew shares how sacred tobacco is offered to the creator in gratitude for everything, staring with the day’s first prayer.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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An Example for Children
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Cheyanne shares how using sacred tobacco each day in her morning prayers, helps set a good example for her children.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Two Different Worlds
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Cheyanne speaks of the two worlds learned about growing up: one view from her grandparents’ traditions and another world at school.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
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Trading Addiction for Tradition
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Jennifer hopes to help her children learn more about the prayer traditions of sacred tobacco, than the addictive aspects of commercial tobacco.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Learning by Listening
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Roberta shares how she keeps learning more about how to use sacred tobacco by being open and listening carefully to elders’ teachings about sacred ...

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Losing Friends to Smoking
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After losing many friends, former smoker Roberta, now encourages people to use tobacco in a traditional way, rather than smoking.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

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