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Tobacco Program
MIC Contact Person: Dana Kingfisher
Educational Materials
Presentations on the sacred and
spiritual use of Tobacco
Youth Empowerment Workshops
Referrals for cessation and support
to help you quit smoking
MT Quit line 1-800-784-8669
Keep Tobacco Sacred
Youth Curriculum development
Funding Source:
Montana Department
of Health and Human Services
(tobacco settlement) and the Center for Disease
Control (CDC)
“So it is that
the relationship of Native Peoples to the sacred plant tobacco has also followed
the path of a circle.”
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“Indian peoples
never wholly forgot their cultures, nor did all Native peoples forget their
teachings regarding the proper use of tobacco.”
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“…everything of
earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and person a mission.
This is the Indian Theory of existence.”
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A Navajo
herbalist explained, "tobacco as "Diyin", a Holy Person. Use it with respect, and it
rewards you. Use it in the wrong way, and it kills you.”
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