ANN ARBOR, MI - The tobacco-free policy at the University of Michigan now exempts smudging, a ritual by some Native American and Indigenous people of burning herbs to bless places. UM became a ...

The Saint Paul Board of Education approved a district-wide smudging policy on Tuesday, allowing students and staff to use tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, and cedar to perform the traditional Native ...

The scent of burning sage filled the air of downtown Brandon Tuesday as part of the Smudging Our Streets ceremony. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are working harder than ...

Mi'kmaw educator Trevor Sanipass brought sage to the CBC News studio recently to perform a smudging ceremony, a purification process that gets rid of negativity. As Halifax prepares to host the North ...

As part of a program to introduce elementary school students to the culture and history of indigenous peoples in Canada, a school in Port Alberni conducted a “smudging ceremony” in which smoke from ...

Back in the days when Tustin was a valuable citrus producing area, growers worried that January’s cold, cloudless, windless nights would bring freezing temperatures to damage the trees as well as the ...