How to understand Blackfoot perspectives on gifting tobacco – UCalgary

Teachings from UCalgary Elder in Residence Reg Crowshoe on ceremonial tobacco

For Indigenous nations across North America, tobacco has deep-seated sacred and ritual roots. Although protocols and medicines may differ from region to region, the majority of nations uphold the significance of tobacco as a sacred plant used as an offering for knowledge and as a relational act of reciprocity, something that continues to be practised to this day.

Since ii’ taa’poh’to’p, UCalgary’s Indigenous Strategy, launched in 2017, its aim has been to Indigenize ways of knowing, doing, connecting and being on our campus. One of the many ways we can achieve this collective goal is by understanding and embedding ceremonial activities and Indigenous protocol, like offering tobacco, into our operations here at the University of Calgary.

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