ST PAUL, Minn. — Some time before the pandemic, Johnson High School students were the first to learn about and implement the indigenous practice of smudging within its school. When the students said ...

The question of whether smudging should be allowed in public schools is one that arose in Canada in 2016, even becoming the subject of a B.C. court case. Smudging involves burning a small amount of ...

The Saint Paul Board of Education approved a district-wide smudging policy on Tuesday, allowing students and staff to use tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, and cedar to perform the traditional Native ...

Darryl Isbister says smudging is a practice that has been taking place in Saskatoon schools since he was working as a high-school teacher. Now, years later, as the co-ordinator of the public ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The tobacco-free policy at the University of Michigan now exempts smudging, a ritual by some Native American and Indigenous people of burning herbs to bless places. UM became a ...

Terrance Littletent removes a piece of white sage from a cloth bag in preparation for a Tuesday-morning smudge. “Each smudge has their own distinct scent to it and it triggers different parts of the ...