Re: Subject: Sweetgrass
Mary Ritchie (mritchie@astro.ocis.temple.edu)
Sun, 8 Oct 1995 17:00:36 -0400
Well, sweetgrass is one of the four medicines which comprise a group of
healing plants used by the people in Anishinabe, Bode'wad mi, and Odawa
societies. The other three are tobacco, cedar, and sage. It is
important to keep those four in relationship to one another.
Ojibwe' on Manitoulin Island (among other places) make boxes from white
birch bark, which is bound on the edges with sweetgrass and decorated
with quills.
My great grandfather, Chuhquat, made sweetgrass baskets for his grand
daughters.
Sweetgrass is the hair of our Mother; separately, each strand is not as
strong as the strands are when braided together.
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