Basic information about the four sacred medicines (tobacco, cedar, sage, and sweetgrass), and how they are used and kept. From an Anishinaabe perspective.
This is the last in our series on Indigenous sacred plants. Sage, along with sweetgrass, red cedar and tobacco, is one of the four plants considered sacred by First Nations and Métis Peoples.
Tobacco, one of the four (sweetgrass, sage and red cedar being the other three) sacred plants of Indigenous Peoples has a very long history and a conflicted present.