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 ...

A new policy at Windsor Regional Hospital improves access to culturally appropriate care for Indigenous patients. The Indigenous Practice Protocol was put into effect at the hospital’s Met Campus on ...

'Before the feathers were handed over to Island RCMP detachments they went through a smudging ceremony,' says Darlene Bernard, chief of the Lennox Island First Nation. (MCPEI Indigenous Justice ...

Indigenous elders, pipe carriers, warriors as well as provincial judges and officials blessed forty-five eagle feathers as the sun was rising over Winnipeg on Thursday They were participating in a ...