Smoking cigarettes
like smallpox blankets, Jails (Reservations) and whisky has always been a
European form of annihilation of our people.
At no time before
first contact, did indigenous people smoke a chemical cigarette!
Yes it is true that
many people call what we do while at a pipe ceremony "smoking a pipe"
however, inside of this pipe, if one is a traditionalist, is very strong herbs
(Kinnick, Kinnick) so we would not inhale that smoke!
So, what makes one
think that they were passed around at our ceremonies?
Passing around
chemical type cigarettes is the true oxymoron!
Death from a
cigarette!
My ancestors were
simple common sense people.
Their tobacco was
grown without chemicals; the ancestors did not need them!
Today our elders
know that cigarettes cause cancer, even if they smoke someone that they know
and love has died a horrible death from this cancer.
Please do not insult
them by an offering of a cancer causing cigarette.
Will you please use
Kinnick~ Kinnick (herbs)?
The only thing worse
than smoking chemicals would be smoking chemicals at a funeral!
Talk about an
Enormous Oxymoron
01/16/2011
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