Holy Angels Students Participate in Smudging Ceremony

VanessaSmudgeSCHREIBER, ON – Friday, June 3, 2016 Vanessa Bouchard, Councillor from Pays Plat First Nations, led the students and staff of Holy Angels School in a smudging ceremony. She educated the students on the four sacred medicines used in the smudging ceremony, the history of smudging and its importance in her way of life.

The smudging ceremony is a custom of Indigenous cultures. For centuries many cultures have used smudging as a way to create cleansing smoke bath used that is used to purify the body, aura, energy, ceremonial/ritual space or any other space and personal articles.

Part of the Grade 3/4 social studies program, Heritage and Identity, the students explored key aspects of First Nations, Metis and settler communities in Canada by building a teepee for shelter and participating in the smudging ceremony to cleanse the room and celebrate the completion of the teepee.

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