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  1. elbertdee

    Any Skins/Indians here?

    Just curious how many Native American are out there on this forum?
  2. elbertdee

    First Day 510

    Welcome to this really good place. I hope in the next day by Volt shows up I really don't want to but more to tobacco to smoke. :) It is a good place here.
  3. elbertdee

    Another Newbie

    Hello Janet, Me to new and impatiently wait for my Volt to showup. This is a good place for gaining understanding and meeting good people. Welcome to ECF
  4. elbertdee

    Gluscabe Steals Tobacco - Anashnabe

    Here is a link to an audio version of Gluscabe Steals Tobacco It is an Anashnabe story A Low Quality- 2.2 Meg www.thestorynation.com/ECFStories/Gluscabe-Steals-Tobacco-32k.mp3 A Medium Quality- 9 Meg www.thestorynation.com/ECFStories/Gluscabe-Steals-Tobacco-128k.mp3 A High Quality- 22.2...
  5. elbertdee

    Don't know if you say the link to the bolg I started. I have posted a Crow story and one version...

    Don't know if you say the link to the bolg I started. I have posted a Crow story and one version of a Cherokee (Tsalagi, Aniyunwia) Elbert
  6. elbertdee

    One version of How They Brought Back The Tobacco - Cherokee

    In the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for their tobacco until the Dagûl'kû geese stole it and carried it far away to the south. The people were suffering without it, and there was one old woman who...
  7. elbertdee

    Help! Who had a hard time first quiting

    Keeping ones tobacco smoking habits should help make the transition smoother.
  8. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    I figured out how to get a blog started. I have posted a Crow story about the orins of tobacco for those that are interested. the link E-Cigarette Forum - Stories From This North America About Tobacco - Blogs Ill post more as the day goes by. It is a different perspective about tobacco. For...
  9. elbertdee

    The Origin of Tobacco - Crow

    A long time ago the Indians roamed the West like the buffalo, one family scattered and returned by change. There were no separate tribes. One of the Indians was a woman of powerful beauty. She gave birth to twin sons, but she did not know who their father was. The beautiful woman sang her...
  10. elbertdee

    Why

    Hello one and all. since I am a Storyteller of Native stories I thought I would start this and start posting some Native/American Indian/Skins/... stories of How Tobacco came to be and what it was used for. Thanks and enjoy. Ill post stories from time to time.
  11. elbertdee

    Stories From This North America About Tobacco

    Stories From This North America About Tobacco
  12. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    No problem. My non paying job is that of a Storyteller. sadly I don'y know the Spider Woman story. I think it is a Dine story, but I am not sure. I will find some more tobacco stories from different nations and post from time to time. Thanks
  13. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    Good morning sandybeach just so you know The reference to "peace pipe" would be considered offense by some Native people and even more so to the plains Indians and most specifically the Lakota. I won't say all , but enough. I have had to walk in both worlds so long Im not offended just...
  14. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    I learned this from John Twoponies in about 1972. John was a Northern Cheyenne man who when I met him was living on the Dine Rez There was a time when humans and Mahao/Creator had good communication. Humans being what we are, let that communication break down. Creator was wondering...
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    Help! Who had a hard time first quiting

    When my nephews mother tried to quit after 40 years, she said it was easier when she got off h... than it was to quit smoking tobacco.
  16. elbertdee

    Help! Who had a hard time first quiting

    I'm just coming from a place of changing my habit. And I can do that, It has never realy been the tobacco I missed when I tried years ago, it was the act of pulling out tobacco, rolling it and lighting hit and smoking. The chemical dependency is really out of the body in a few days. For me it...
  17. elbertdee

    Help! Who had a hard time first quiting

    I know when I switched from Taylor Mades/ReadyRolls to RYO it took me 3 years to completely get off the Ready Rolls. In a few days Ill be changing from RYO to a different way to keep a smoking habit. I am hoping since I got off the ready rolls 20 years ago that the transition to no tobacco will...
  18. elbertdee

    Newbie on this forum

    Welcome You have to a good place with good people. Im waiting for my first order to arrive.
  19. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    Hello RichardV, I are new here and waiting for my Volt to arrive. Guess I've rolled my own so long that charging a battery is like needing papers or needing to fill my zippo. Ask me again in a month or so. Glad you made your way back.
  20. elbertdee

    Older People 55 and Up

    Thanks Iffy Not my best work but a good one.