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What is an Indigenous Medicine Wheel?
The circle, being primary, influences how we as Aboriginal peoples view the world. In the process of how life evolves, how the natural world grows...
Spiritual Beliefs
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Debunking Misconceptions About First Nation Totem Poles
There are lots of lore and misconceptions about First Nation totem poles. In this article, we address six of the more common misconceptions.
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Smudging to Indigenous Protocol - Our Top 10 Articles in 2017
In 2017, we had just over 816,000 visitors to our blog Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples® looking for information on a wide variety of...
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A Definition of Smudging
Sacred smoke created from burning medicinal or sacred plants is an aspect of many cultures and religions the world over. In North America, it is a...
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What Is the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and Animals
From time to time people ask me about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and animals. For some, the knowledge of the natural world - the...
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Indigenous Worldviews vs Western Worldviews
Any individual within a culture is going to have his or her own personal interpretation of the collective cultural code; however, the individual's...
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First Nation Sacred Sites
For First Nations, their identity, nationhood, and cultural survival are all interconnected to their relationship with the land and cannot be...
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First Nations' Relationship to the Land
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Sage
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...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Tobacco
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...