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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  • Added: Dec 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Lana explains how being a non-smoker is a battle every day.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Frank says tobacco has a big use within Native culture, but when it is taken outside of ceremony, it is another drug.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Jeffrey shares how after being a heavy smoker early in his life, he quit so he could set a good example for his family.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Alex shares the relief she experienced by giving up her smoking habit and instead using sacred tobacco as part of her daily prayers.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Alex talks about some of the ways she collects and uses traditional tobacco in sacred ways.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Lena talks about how she now uses tobacco for her daily prayers, after giving up decades of smoking.

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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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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
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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
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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David shares how he gave up commercial tobacco, and now only uses Sacred tobacco.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1