At the Southeast Division space, Numkena-Anderson will serve six-course dinners that incorporate storytelling and start with smudging sweetgrass, a practice that invokes protection and repels ...

Sweetgrass is an aromatic herb and is also a sacred medicine symbolizing healing and peace. It’s a grass with long soft leaves that grows from 1-3 feet tall. The grass is often gathered and dried, ...

Smudging, a traditional Indigenous practice involving the burning of sacred herbs, is an important part of life for many Indigenous students at the University of Michigan. However, students say ...