Suzanne Nash wants Indigenous youth to reclaim an understanding about the ways tobacco has been used in their community’s cultural and religious practices. “Our gift from God the creator was ...
Packages of cigarettes and fine cut tobacco that are purchased tax-free on-reserve by Status Indians will also have peach-coloured tear-tape markings to distinguish them from the ...
The indigenous tobacco looks less potent that the domesticated ones, skinny and with fewer leaves. It’s hard to resist a more powerful drug. “The ‘trade tobacco’ was so much more potent that the ...
Nina McEachem picked up smoking as a teen living in Ketchikan, Alaska. She had entered foster care at age 11 after her mother died of leukemia and her father, a school janitor, was overwhelmed caring ...
Suzanne Nash wants Indigenous youth to reclaim an understanding about the ways tobacco has been used in their community’s cultural and religious practices. “Our gift from God the creator was ...