'Keeping Tobacco Sacred'

This PSA Video focuses on the importance of sacred tobacco use in Native culture as opposed to the dangers of commercial tobacco use in our ceremonies. The group worked with Carla Rae, of "Imprint" and PBS' Network American Experience "WE SHALL REMAIN: Trail of Tears" fame, to produce and release "Keeping Tobacco Sacred. Carla Rae enlisted the aid of longtime friends, award winning director, producer, cinematographer and editor, John Foutz and formidable native actor/spokesperson John E. Scott-Richardson, a voice for the North Carolina Tribal Tobacco Awareness programs. The PSA was funded by the National Native Network through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health.

[@matoitunkala1766]

please continue to make videos not many people are putting information for those who want to learn out there to watch i enjoy hearing from my people

[@doravraham2398]

+Kyle Frieszell (Crazy Bear) I want that the north american native tribes will be atleast 1/4 of the total population of the usa and canada

[@doravraham2398]

+Kyle Frieszell (Crazy Bear) i Love native americans

[@JinnYoungKim]

Many a people are getting dull so that they just clog. We need to spreas this video.

[@haimbenavraham1502]

Sacred Mother Earth...how much abuse can she endure. Time for her children to grow up and show her respect.

[@psychecellic]

Not this harsh but yes, we have to invite them back

[@user-ww5fc3kz4y]

We are all learning here. Be patient. The GREAT HEALING is HAPPENING.

[@elijahwatan]

I agree

[@JinnYoungKim]

I truly feel sorry for them. Europeans developed and Cigarettes have tarnished this culture. Also many of them did genocide on this continent.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

Indians committed genocide far more than Europeans. Try learning something. Bro thought they were holding hands before Europeans showed up 😂

[@sparrowview]

Thank you for sharing this vital wisdom! People the world over need to gain the energy and clarity of seeing things clearly, thank you for this message!

[@Busentizshreds]

the warp stabilization is strong with this one

[@gisellegallegos7798]

Hello, glad to see your video and the intent put into it. I am also into keeping tobacco sacred and found out that growing our own tobacco for ceremonial or medicine purposes is the way to go. Cultivating the plant while cultivating our relationship with spirit is of great help to cleanse all those manipulated ideas the tobacco industry had fed us through propaganda. Industrial tobacco has the mechanized vibe in it, and yep, you sure will smoke like a machine disconnected from it's true purpose: praying, cleansing, connecting with the infinite web of life. Good life to y'all and may the seeds of conscious use of tobacco bloom in humanity's garden again, aho!

[@duhaimap1]

I just planted some seeds. We will have it growing wild all over here in Portage.

[@NNNKeepItSacred]

That's great to hear! Thank you for sharing!

[@jenniedevereaux2696]

The current state of life on earth is PURE POISEN. Find a path and ignore the bs if these dark ages. Respect ❤🥰

[@grndragon7777777]

I was smoking a cigarette while I was watching. thank you. I'm going back to the pipe.

[@nickm4974]

Einstein used a pipe. Pipe tobacco is like Wine while commercial tobacco is like A Smirnoff I’ve lol

[@tonelee4515]

Same here

[@mantykarhu]

I think it's the added chemicals even in pipe tobacco. Even Einstein had to quit later on in life from the harm it caused to his health. I wonder what would have happened if he used it in a sacred way and without harmful additive...

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Keep preaching I have a problem with this my father before me and his including my mother. I do not want my children having to go through this

[@dennislockhart8627]

Thank You 🌬💋❤️♨️🌀🦅

[@lonestarpatriot6675]

Natural pipe tobacco is what i advise to those without the access to their own tobacco harvest. Premium pipe tobacco comes with none of the chemical additives found in cigarettes and can be bought in bulk often times.

[@wolf7379]

I just started smoking with a pipe. Can you provide me with some names that are natural or premium pipe tobacco so I can purchase them? Many thanks.

[@lonestarpatriot6675]

@@wolf7379 I would recommend some straight Virginia tobacco. Peterson Flake is my personal favorite though it doesn’t come in bulk.

[@lonestarpatriot6675]

@@wolf7379 others I would recommend are Escudo Navy Rolls, Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake, Cornell & Diehl Opening Night, and Peterson Elizabethan. I actually have another channel reviewing premium cigar and pipe tobacco. It’s Lonestar Piper. Might help you find something you like.

[@wolf7379]

@@lonestarpatriot6675 Thank you very much for giving me some names of tobacco - much appreciated! I'm confused. Does it mean the names you gave me are tobacco that are chemical free? How do we know which tobacco are chemical free? What do they mean by keeping tobacco sacred? On the one hand I assume they mean having tobacco that is chemical free. But on the other hand, does 'keeping tobacco sacred' mean you only smoke tobacco on very rare occasions as in ceremonies? Because, to be quite honest, I find I have got into the habit of smoking a pipe every day and I suppose that is not a good idea? Many thanks for the information you gave me.

[@lonestarpatriot6675]

@@wolf7379 Those are tobaccos that are chemical free. Most pipe tobacco will have a slight casing to help creat a uniform flavor across crops. Though this is often a natural casing such as honey. The best way to make sure your pipe tobacco has no chemicals is to stick with premium brands and avoid aromatics. Most (not all) aromatic tobaccos are flavored with artificial flavorings. As for keeping tobacco sacred. Tobacco for natives was originally a ceremonial leaf. Used for prayer and burned as a way to connect with ancestors. From what I understand they believe the smoke would rise and carry your messages to the “heavens” if you will. Europeans came along and started smoking tobacco simply for the pleasure of it. I do think you can strive to find a balance between the two though. Tobacco can be a positive facilitator for many things when not simply smoked for a nicotine fix. A pipe for example can give way to relaxation and meditation. It can also benefit deep intellectual thought. Cigars on the other hand can be an excellent tool for social settings. Two strangers can meet and share a cigar. Immediately putting them on the same page and opening the doorway to friendship and discussion.

[@jf8461]

This message needs to get out. I will share it!

[@donnied6151]

Its a strange one tobacco, especially my own personal experiences with it and also the Native American lore on it. I've used it, with some people it give you a high and with others it makes me noxious. I think there is more to this plant than meets the eye.

[@prettybxy77]

Recreational tobacco almost killed my father from cancer. I grow tobacco now to work with its spirit.

[@grumpyoldsodinacellar3518]

And that is one of the reasons I only smoke tobacco made in England, who have some of the most restrictive laws governing any type of additives, flavourings etc to PIPE tobacco. When it comes to cigarette tobacco manufacturing in England, well, the rules went out of the window. In fact, you can put just about anything in cigarette tobacco to act as "filler"

[@shonpieters9609]

Unfortunately big tobacco got me when I was younger.. I do want to quit but I do like smoking so it makes it hard. Wado ✌️ Adadoligi ale Udohiu. 🙏

[@TheWoodtickclan]

Where can we buy natural tobacco?

[@svillethomas]

Grow it. The seeds are easily acquired online.

[@FirstLast-uz6eq]

Whether you smoke for pleasure or spiritual reasons, growing it is the healthiest option. Be sure to use phosphate-free soil!

[@curtiserecacho1401]

I go to a Pipe tobacco store and buy the pure loose leaf Tobacco from North Carolina southern area of the United States.

[@operamatthew]

premium long fill cigars

[@turbonbc]

Mapacho

[@petrosspetrosgali]

When the cigarette companies are done processing tobacco, it’s no longer tobacco. We need to stop calling the use of cigarettes and dip as tobacco usage. As a former cigarette smoker who smokes a pipe, I can say this from extensive first hand knowledge. Open up a cigarette and put the contents next to some pipe tobacco of the types of plant side by side and you’ll see that they are totally different.

[@JinnYoungKim]

That makes two of us. Cigarettes Companies need to stop producing Cigarettes. If they really want to manufacture Cigarettes, they will have to produce pure tobacco and pipes.

[@whoaedgy7345]

Their niches are preservatives, packaging, and distribution. In production, the tobacco is smoke cured by burning tobacco, wood, and other recipe-like ingredients, and the water is evaporated, and the light ash and oil seals seals the natural oils and nicotine in. There is really only 1 brand that rides the culture, and it is the purest available, cigarette wise. Very different, from ceremony tobacco, but the curing, fire safe paper, filter, ink, and adhesive, all add to the chemical list, because it was tested as an entire item, not just inhaled smoke.

[@JinnYoungKim]

​@@whoaedgy7345What's the name of that brand?

[@wildebt]

I use the organic American Spirit pouch (turquoise) tobacco, and have seen it used sacramentally at sweat lodges. Is this a raw tobacco source that you would consider good? Or does the commercial enterprise behind it a harmful influence?

[@user-nq4kl9ro3q]

Any comercial tobacco that is mass produced will always have some sort of additives and reconstituted material, it's just not in big tobaccos nature to grow organic or leave waste, they are in the business of maximizing their profits not improving your experience. There's an old saying "if you want it done right do it yourself" and at the end of the day that's the only way you will know exactly how your tobacco was made and what is in it.

[@JohnLeaf]

This is TOBBACOSTAPO??? the gestapo of tobacco?? i aprove both uses.. i use more tradicional but i dont CONDEM sporadical use of comercial tobacco, i use both spiritually

[@skyerichards4906]

Yes, please let's do that! "KEEP IT SACRED"

[@suzandouglass5241]

Siyo.I grew up in a house of smokers, and started smoking at about 9. I quit when I moved out, and after many more years my father died from COPD/Emphysema. My relationship with tobacco was not a good one. I need to allow myself to be open to the sacred use of tobacco and not shun it anymore. There are many herbs I do use like sage and cedar, and hemp. Many others for healing salves and teas. I felt I didn't need tobacco. Maybe I don't, but this video helps me understand that tobacco isn't the enemy. Colonized tobacco is. Wado.

[@JinnYoungKim]

Thanks for your open mind sir

[@WraithChornobyl]

Please expand on this topic!

[@janelleryan7869]

For people that don't know the scared uses,a bit explained or shown to them at the end of the video would go along way of those same people standing with you.

[@blulumwaquepajoo7158]

Do you sell the leaves,dry or green ?pm me

[@Smudge4199]

I would love to support native tobacco growers if anyone knows of anyways we can do that please let us know

[@sl1646]

Hello my friend John I'm glad to see you on a journey to relate this positive message abroad,educating our present generation in hope for the next to keep tobacco a sacred medicine not recreational.

[@benstevinson764]

❤️ Native American Indian Culture

[@johnny99211]

Are natural american spirits good cigarettes, i heard that the tobacco is organic.

[@shtprof2000]

Where do I buy the stuff you've been smokin?

[@Magician12345]

did the pre colonial natives (i know theres a lot of differences between each nation) ferment their leaves or just smoke them after drying?

[@petrosspetrosgali]

In south louisiana-I forgot what tribe- they would ferment their tobacco by adding some liquid(it’s still a secret recipe to this day) and packing it into hollow logs. Look up Perique tobacco in St. James parish.

[@Magician12345]

@@petrosspetrosgali ok cool thanks

[@chanfred3037]

i luv native because ive got real knowledge we all have native origine for ancestror

[@abramhammer6231]

Chan Fred not everyone is native american

[@mathieuvanleeuwen7127]

So where can I find clean tobacco to smoke?

[@operamatthew]

premium long filled cigars

[@mathieuvanleeuwen7127]

@@operamatthew really?

[@operamatthew]

@@mathieuvanleeuwen7127 yep

[@mathieuvanleeuwen7127]

@@operamatthew All righty then... but I understand that one doesn't inhale smoke from cigars ? (I'm not sure) And the story goes that native americans smoked tobacco to fight feelings and other effects of hunger, something like that. I'm european and so I am much of an outsider in this topic. In my twenties I smoked cigars to imitate 'The man with no name', played by Clint Eastwood, to 'look cool' . I inhaled the smoke once ... never did that again ! (In public, how cool can you get ...😜)

[@lightmetamorphosis]

As an avid snuff taker this was hard to hear. Probably the reason this video popped up on me. You're right though, a lot of smokeless tobacco has preservatives. Plus it's used daily, that can't be great for our health.

[@starhawk74]

shawnee halfbreed here lol how did the indians ferment tobbacco?back in the olden days

[@richardrobison4161]

How to keep Tabacco Safe always

[@frankieartsen3077]

GREAT VIDEO PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS

[@Kyle-pj2vc]

Yet they leave out the fact that some hand rolled cigars are all natural no additives. I'm all for them disagreeing with modern tabcco use, but not one culture gets to set the rules for the rest of us.

[@bongboi2831]

they never said everybody has to follow their rules moniyaw

[@FirstLast-uz6eq]

Small-batch handmade products aren't what they're going after. Look up the 'mother liquor'.

[@skyerichards4906]

I used to smoke too and I know how addictive it was for and even the habit was so hard to let go of as it made me in some way feel more in control of the moment in that reaching out for my comfort, but I felt that the smoke didn't belong often on the inside. I don't see this as an issue of control over but an intentional choice to breath in life. As much as I felt enjoyment in the moment, I felt the poisoned air: eventually I quit. Your personal choice is yours to make. Having been part of the spiritual practice I understand it much differently now and see the honouring of earth and ancestors in a much different way now.

[@superglidefletch8003]

Grow your own. What the heck

[@SuperEman500]

or smoke something all natural like Cuban Cigars.

[@hyosciamussolanaceae5696]

or get your life problems fixed

[@thesoul2871]

where can I buy sum mapacho tobacco I've been smoking too much commercial cigarettes and it's been fucking up my gums I need to switch I feel guilty smoking these

[@alexandersalamander1043]

This looks like a gta cutscene lol

[@chanfred3037]

ty i smock cigar too for me partagas is more organic

[@elizabethpeatfield6086]

Hello there I have been told that I am about 15 to 20 25% Native American Powhatan, Algonquin. The tribe of Ammanute. I must find my tribe there must be a conversation and the finding of ancestry and the amount of Native American in My DNA for my father said. My children and I are in need of help prayers guidance and resources and protection. Any prayers, good wishes, support, finding My Tribe, finding my home away from home, thank you and if nothing else I appreciate listening and beginning to learn as my injuries that I sustained through terrible car accident and some other things through life. Need healing desperately, for my body, my spirit and my family, and my community. Please and thank you your friend Elizabeth Evans Peatfield

[@MissTia777]

You just a wht girl

[@trollmcclure1884]

wrong. Mapacho wild tobacco has much higher nicotine content as well as harmala alkaloids. There's not enough of it in modern tobacco so people have to pay and smoke more of it

[@staciwashington3212]

Yes. Let's keep it sacred.🪷

[@rachetCD]

Tobacco was bad even back in the day wasn't it? Why else would native Americans have tobacco substitutes like sumac and mullein?

[@akhmad444]

I am using cigar

[@user-tr6sy5lm8l]

when native gave tobacco to the other people back in the day...they said to not abuse it or it will deceit u...remember that one...what's going to deceit u his n is the thing u abused the most... Cheers!!!...RAL...

[@kennethsouthard6042]

This commercial has been brought to you by American Spirit. The natural tobacco company owned by big tobacco.

[@curtismills1612]

Always tell my self I'm on the red road but here I am smoking a cigarette while I watch this....😕

[@Chromacone]

canada yuma organic light.

[@NickFortier]

So..in Canada, do the natives not process their own tobacco?

[@skyerichards4906]

I am sure some do and some don't. There is no such idea as "the natives" as each nation is very different and has different cultural norms and practices as well as leadership on these issues.

[@NickFortier]

@@skyerichards4906 I'm saying, some natives, profit from tabacco. I asked a guy why they smoked, he explained it was to ward off ailments, ironically. The natives is simply referring to indigenous peoples of Canada, north and south america too I believe all smoked. Not being disrespectful. They have the right to procure and sell whatever the earth has to offer.

[@aryeavraham3091]

five smokers that should be put in a withdrawl company closed from human being unliked this video. They should not be let to buy these cigarettes dont sell them and also no tracks of new supply coming to the supermarkets.

[@chipc4936]

Much respect.

[@juansolorio9683]

I purepecha and tabaco was also sacred for us we burned it in afferjng to our gods and also par took in smoking sechs

[@Hackerinsidemyphone_caution]

If you know proper usage... It's one of the best medicine... And in the hands of ignorant... You are screwed...

[@keithnolan2386]

Should you inhale

[@Hackerinsidemyphone_caution]

@@keithnolan2386 nope it has medicinal use of extract... As I said... In the hands of good alchemist it becomes a boon...

[@keithnolan2386]

@@Hackerinsidemyphone_caution boon?

[@Hackerinsidemyphone_caution]

@@keithnolan2386 old mess up translations... Boon is cure..bane is created disease... ROFL

[@keithnolan2386]

@@Hackerinsidemyphone_caution how exactly is the right way of using it as medicine

[@lukas911321]

They add chemicals, but most of the toxins in cigarette smoke is from the burning of tobacco, not the additives. People are sick from tobacco becsuse of overuse.

[@Gieszkanne]

Actually the problem is that you have no one who smoked only natural tobacco for a double blind study.

[@lukas911321]

@@Gieszkanne Sure, but my point still stands. Most toxic chemicals in smoke.... comes from smoke....

[@lukas911321]

@@Gieszkanne Most people don't die from coal burning plants, they die from agricultural slash and burning practices. That smoke is all natural

[@bjorncedergreen4266]

No commercial tobacco, keep it sacred, only Hopi and Doka for ceremonies.

[@alexlamar676]

hope you realize doka has more nicotine than the mass majority of tobacco strains "sacred" more like buzzing your dick off

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

Why do the natives consider Tobacco sacred to begin with?

[@moorejl57]

While I am no expert on the traditional use of tobacco, it seems that many of the commenters don't realize that the scared use of tobacco doesn't involve inhaling the smoke as is done with a cigarette. It is often used as an offering when harvesting other sacred medicines such as sage, cedar or sweetgrass and is not burned. The point of this video is to remind indigenous people that smoking commercial cigarettes is causing extensive harm to the health of the community and that is it disrespecting the scared use of tobacco as an offering and connection to the creator.

[@alexlamar676]

im no expert or anything but im pretty damn sure that native americans smoked like chimneys, sacred my ass

[@mikemedal]

All tobacco is sacred. It only matters in pipe ceremonies.

[@skyerichards4906]

I feel that commercial products are made to addict people and not heal people. Maybe I am misunderstanding you.

[@mikemedal]

@@skyerichards4906 just don't smoke. Yes natural tobacco is always better and more people should grow it for offerings. But it you can't get it or afford it, a pack of smokes is fine for an elder as an offering. No prayer for the creator goes unheard.

[@originalentertainment9091]

I'm a black male an African American male I respect all cultures. Tobacco is a drug and addictive

[@Gieszkanne]

So caffeine is.

[@windycityrosin]

So is love

[@Dan-bc9nx]

Don’t smoke Commercial Tobacco... Vape instead...

[@SuperEman500]

Nah chemicals from Vape give you popcorn lung and all kinds of bad shit, Smoke all natural Cigars instead, preferably Cuban Cigars.

[@operamatthew]

buncha chemicals in that crap too

[@umarae27]

@@SuperEman500 prove it.

[@sexydudeuk2172]

keeping tobacco sacred as long as you dont distribute em because youre advertising death

[@lauralucero7846]

There is smoke shops I'm sure they got organic tobacco theres two here in town special cigar lounges in California in my city

[@jaimeceferino7710]

Tobacco is not used in our ceremonial sacred Canupas or pipes. It's something totally different that is used and it's NOT marijuana. That's disrespectful.

[@prayingpatriot8018]

Our tribal ancestors used cedar, herbal sage, sweetgrass and tree barks that were chopped, minced and dried. These were the main ingredients that were made up of sacred tobacco.

[@hg077]

kinnikinnick

[@operamatthew]

cigarettes... not tobacco.

[@runingblackbear]

tobacco isn't what you use in native ceremony and these two european are not native

[@shaun8062]

I don't think there was a real point made in this video. This guy says "we want to keep ourselves observant and healthy". Tobacco in any form is not healthy. What are they saying?

[@undeadpresident]

It's not that harmful if you don't use it consistently. Most people do though so that's how you get health problems. The tobacco plant itself isn't even carcinogenic, it's the processing that makes it so.

[@shaun8062]

undeadpresident Nicotine is still a vasoconstrictor and causes heart disease. Doesn't matter.

[@undeadpresident]

Shaun Cooney only if you use it consistently will it give you heart disease. Kind of like eating red meat. Eat it here and there you are ok, but eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner, then say hello to cardiovascular disease. Red meat also causes cancer.

[@aryeavraham3091]

that's bullshit what u said about meat but about tobacco it's used in another way and in a way that won't make u want to use it tons of times a day if u do it native

[@runingblackbear]

they don't have a clue on anything

[@WarrensWorld112]

THATS A WHITE WOMAN

[@MissTia777]

How???

[@WarrensWorld112]

@@MissTia777 idk her so i cant say for sure but she seems very European