DULUTH — It’s a little after 8 a.m. on a gray Friday when Waabigwanikwe kneels in the center of a gaggle of students at Lowell Elementary School and unpacks a brightly colored bag. Inside: ...

Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a reporter in September 2022 - and she's thrilled be back home in the Twin Cities! Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel ...

ST. PAUL --The second-largest school district in the state made a big change in the way it honors Indigenous cultures. The ritual of smudging is now allowed inside classrooms at St. Paul Public ...

Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright and author who lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario. In British Columbia, it seems the simple act of smudging – a pan-aboriginal ...

The ritual of smudging can be defined as "spiritual house cleaning." In theory, the smoke attaches itself to negative energy and as the smoke clears it takes the negative energy with it, releasing it ...

St. Paul Public Schools is eyeing a new policy allowing and encouraging the Native American practice of smudging — the burning of sage or other sacred herbs for healing — at schools and events across ...

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul Public Schools officials are drafting a new policy to allow and encourage the Native American practice of smudging at schools and events in Minnesota’s second-largest ...

Walter Fleming, Department Head of MSU's Native American Studies, gave guests who attended the EPA grant for pollution prevention a traditional native ritual known as sage smudging!