ST PAUL, Minn.— The Saint Paul Public School Board (SPPS) voted unanimously on Tuesday to support a new policy that allows Indigenous students to smudge in schools. “The policy that we want to bring ...

Smudging, a traditional Indigenous practice involving the burning of sacred herbs, is an important part of life for many Indigenous students at the University of Michigan. However, students say ...

Their Housing and Indigenous Services departments have introduced a pilot project “designed to help self-identified Indigenous students stay connected to their culture, while in the comfort of their ...

South High School has three academic programs…the open program, liberal arts, and the All Nations program, aculturally specific, Native American program that’s existed for more than 25 years. A ...

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 ...

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!