The Evil Smudge Seller...

I grew up an Indian, learned all the normal junk about Christopher Columbus but didn’t get it. That is, until I was in the military. What does that have to do with smudge? It has everything to do with it. I’ll explain.

I’m older and I call myself an Indian, I grew up on a reservation, poor but didn’t know it till later in life. I had a horse before I had a bike, I learned to swim in a dirt ditch, I also learned to water ski in that same brown water ditch by being pulled by a truck. Many, if not all younger and some older Indians don’t like to be called "Indian", they link it to Columbus. They want Native American. I really don’t care, I know what you are and I know what I am. I am an Indian. Anyway, back to smudge and Columbus. 

You see, in the military community I was in, Columbus was used as the greatest example in the history of the world, on how not to lead. Didn’t know where he was going, didn’t know where he was when he got there and didn’t know how to get back. It wasn’t even dumb luck, it was geography that saved him and us “Indians”. 

In the end, most, if not all Indians will admit, what happened was inevitable. Non-Indians don’t get it. We had no laws, no courts, no religion, no fiat currency, no loyalty but to Mother Earth and other Humans. We had to be destroyed for the civilized world to show you needed so called modern culture to be successful. Couldn’t let those “Savages” show you it could be done without the civilized world, it destroyed their agenda. That’s is the truth about Indians, our ways, are ways without control, without power. 

I make my smudge to help Humans and Spirits, period.

I catch Hell from many “Natives” that say it’s wrong to let the “non-Natives” use it, to know about it. “It’s Native medicine”. They’ve tried to cancel me, belittle me, scorn me and even physically fight me. I’m past that. The power we have in terms of our connection to Mother Earth is monumental. To not share what we know for good, for positive, is feeding into the last 1,000 years of non-Indians trying to kill us, shame us, destroy us.

If I have something that can help everyone and everyone. If what I know can help bring peace, love and healing. I’m going to use it, I’m going to share it, I’m going to teach it and bring one positive bit of energy to Mother Earth. It’s time non-Indians learned something that can be positive, bind us all together and help heal the world. If we (Indians) know how, share it!

So if you don’t like that I make and sell smudge or this sacred medicine. That’s OK, you should go out into the world we now live in, it’s not the world of 1,000 years ago. Look the non-Indian in the eyes and not just the white, everyone, every "shade of wheat” that lives on this blue rock and tell them they aren’t good enough to love, live and be here on Mother Earth with Indians and have positive energy. Do it, maybe you’ll feel better going down that path of hate.

My medicine is strong, my medicine knows no color, no religion, no creed, no geographic region, no culture, no species. My medicine heals, kills negative energy.

Columbus needed my medicine, so much, he destroyed it.