[NEWS] Five first nations links: tobacco, yaupon tea, Kahnawake cannabis, Cree fiddling, Indigenous

[rfmcdonald]

• D-Brief notes evidence that indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest smoked tobacco long before Europeans arrived.


• Atlas Obscura looks at "yaupon tea", a caffeinated beverage brewed from the leaves and stems of the cassina plant of the southeastern United States popular among indigeous peoples but mysteriously neglected in recent years.


• The Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake is facing a referendum over whether or not to legalize the sale of cannabis products. CTV reports.


• Cree fiddler Byron Jonah is the first person to win a new fiddling award of Eeyou Istchee, the Cree region in northern Québec. CBC reports.


• Mathieu Landriault at The Conversation looks at how, in the Justin Trudeau era, the term "Aboriginal" has been replaced by "Indigenous".

Comments

[armiphlage]

You always find such interesting articles.