Smudging Ceremony at North West College
Smudging Ceremony at the Mistikwa Centre, Battlefords Campus will be held March 14th from 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Smudging is a tradition, common to many First Nations, which involves the burning of one or more medicines gathered from the earth. The four sacred medicines used in First Nations’ ceremonies are tobacco, sage, cedar and sweetgrass. The most common medicines used in a smudge are sweetgrass, sage and cedar.
A community Grandmother presented the following as the steps and rationale for this cleansing process we call smudge to Niji Mahkwa School in Winnipeg:
• We smudge to clear the air around us.