Value Our Traditions/Sacred Tobacco

Sherry shares how started smoking since age thirteen and smoked for thirty years, and now she has lung cancer from commercial tobacco.  Sherry advises people not to ever start smoking. [Read Transcript...]

Lew grew up with tobacco, started smoking as a teen.  But he finally quit after becoming very sick and ending up in ICU, with a life-threatening illness. [Read Transcript...]

Dennis believes the one way to become a healthy people, is through the culture.  He says practicing Native traditions out in the open now, is very healing. [Read Transcript...]

Mary speaks about how she quit smoking: she just decided she was done, she was not a going to be a smoker anymore.  Once she made up her mind, she says it surprisingly easy. [Read Transcript...]