Are there any Aboriginal People, First Nations, Metis, Inuit or Native Americans out there. I'm Huron Wendat would like to get us together.
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I've only been at this since the 6th of june. SloHand from Kingston, got me started he's been at it for a year. I'm vapinf a Lava Tube trying a whole bunch of juices and tanks. My main juice is RY4 with switches to Strawberry, Swedish pastry, Coffee, Toffee, Rum bubble or something like that. Right now it's just a mixture of where ever is handy and and I need to top the tank.
Are you living in Tyendinaga? How did you come to vaping? I'm very interested about this because as President of the Board of Anishnawbe Health Toronto with tobacco as a sacred medicine and 50% of our people addicted to analogues I want to examine ways in which we can keep tobacco where it was meant to be for ceremony. On the practice side smoke shops account for employment and revenue.
I would appreciate views and observations.
Are you living in Tyendinaga? How did you come to vaping? I'm very interested about this because as President of the Board of Anishnawbe Health Toronto with tobacco as a sacred medicine and 50% of our people addicted to analogues I want to examine ways in which we can keep tobacco where it was meant to be for ceremony. On the practice side smoke shops account for employment and revenue.
I would appreciate views and observations.
Let's see....
My mother was 1/2 Iroquois, my biological father was 1/2 Iroquois, that makes me really screwed up on what percentage i was...though i could tell you i originally was in Timmins Ontario (not anymore) and what clan i came from (so i am told), does that count?
My mother was 1/2 Iroquois, my biological father was 1/2 Iroquois, that makes me really screwed up on what percentage i was...though i could tell you i originally was in Timmins Ontario (not anymore) and what clan i came from (so i am told), does that count?
I'm Choctaw. I lived with a group made up of many nations for a number of years, but that was in another state. The only group around here that I'm aware of are plastic. This thread is a nice idea.
I am part Native Canadian, My great Grandfather was a band leader?!?! found that out when I joined the army...but as most of My relitives have passed on my Mom's side I have no idea what nation or tribe .....I feel a little lost!..but one day it will be clear to me!
I think this is a great Idea...I would much rather buy reserve e-juice then cigs!
I think this is a great Idea...I would much rather buy reserve e-juice then cigs!
This is good!!! We got some work to do. Just let me wake up take the dog out and get to work. Today is a big day. We are lighting up my ED's shinny new Stainless new Lava Tube. YEsterday we got 3 new starters kits for other staff at AHT. And believe me there's more to come.
Hey Constantine Iroquois is a group of six different nations so if you are part iroquois you would actual be either Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca or Tuscarora. hope this helps your searching.
I was born and raised in tyendinaga I still work there and live in the neighboring city of Belleville. The smokes on my territory account for a massive percentage of employment. So as much as I am glad I quite smoking. It is also nice to see people afford food on their table clothes for their children siding on their houses and decent cars in their driveways. Before the smoke shops my territory was quite poor. The neat thing about all the cigarette money coming into the reserve is that alot of the owners have taken that money and investsd it into more secure businness ventures such as real estate contracting/excavation companies auto parts stores as well as donating to youth sports programs.
Clear as mud now
all jokes aside (coffee has not kicked in yet) thank you very much. All i can tell you is a few natives have said in my life time i am from the Wolf Clan As for where exactly the heritage is from wish i could say. Grandmother passed on taking the secret with her to the other side (refusing to accept she was full blood), my aunt and uncle also took the secret to the other side, while my mother seen it fit to say that is was nothing but a weakness, and her kids (my sister and myself) where to see it as being filthy and trashy to even recognize the native side. Due to accident they have all taken what ever secrets to whisper it to the Creator......the sole link i have (though i think his time grows shorter by the days) is the biological father, and he is about as helpful as trying to vape a watermelon.
I have tried to do searches for names, locations etc for the Government of Canada so as i could establish my right to being metis, 3/4, full, etc but............well lets just say there seem to be many twists and turns into what i originally believed was the truth.......
Well if you were brought up in Timmins and believe you are of a Iroquoian nation it might be worth giving a call to wahta firstnation band office with your grandmothers name. I beleive they are the closest mohawk community to timmins and you may just get lucky. If the have her listed in a old band list it would give you a place to start.
Clans are passed down through the mothers and not the fathers if that helps. Some nations pass though fathers but Iroquoian always pass through the mothers side.
Clans are passed down through the mothers and not the fathers if that helps. Some nations pass though fathers but Iroquoian always pass through the mothers side.
I'm not First Nations, but I'm proud to live in Northern British Columbia, working with great people from the Haida Nation, to the Tahltan, Wet'suwet'en, and out west to The Lheidli T'enneh Nation.
Happy National Aboriginal Day!
Happy National Aboriginal Day!
raised in Denver, made in the northern plains.. haha
enrolled Sahnish, Hidatsa here, grandpa is White Earth Anishinaabe (Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg) also... (funny little thing i just found out, firefox's spellchecker doesnt like Anishinaabe, when you right click on it to see their suggested spelling - it suggests 'vanishing'.. wow)
happy day to my northern brothers and sisters!
enrolled Sahnish, Hidatsa here, grandpa is White Earth Anishinaabe (Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg) also... (funny little thing i just found out, firefox's spellchecker doesnt like Anishinaabe, when you right click on it to see their suggested spelling - it suggests 'vanishing'.. wow)
happy day to my northern brothers and sisters!
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I knew it would be just a matter of time before another wonderful, inspirational thread by Projectguy would be detoured and hijacked. Let us go back to reading the original topic about how people want to help others instead of someone else's sense of entitlement.
edit: sorry reflogsdrawkcab, you snuck in before I finished typing, no offense.
edit: sorry reflogsdrawkcab, you snuck in before I finished typing, no offense.
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none taken... glad to see some other Natives here, kicking the stinkies..
its important for me to remember tobacco's place in my people's ways and traditions.. smoking is a really, really bad perversion of the sacredness of our messenger..
i have been trying to think about a tag line from a native non smoking group when i need some help,
'addiction kills tradition'
helps me remember the original context of tobacco and gives me resolution when im feeling like i want to smoke.
its important for me to remember tobacco's place in my people's ways and traditions.. smoking is a really, really bad perversion of the sacredness of our messenger..
i have been trying to think about a tag line from a native non smoking group when i need some help,
'addiction kills tradition'
helps me remember the original context of tobacco and gives me resolution when im feeling like i want to smoke.
yet another thread i am removing myself from.....amazing how anything not related to some people's favorite vendor and they have to start up the drama ...either way thanks brinks7, i will look into that information....Have a great day
The thread is titled: Aboriginal People. You are also in the Canadian Members forum as a GUEST.
Kindly contribute to the topic in a meaningful way, with respect, or use the door and take your off topic disruptive attitude with you.
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Thanks for bringing us back on topic IamAurora .
Me and Cobber had the great pleasure and honor this week to have been invited to the Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) to speak with staff there about vaping.
We were greeted warmly and I must say that there was definitely lots of excitement about an alternative to the stinkies.
As projectguy pointed out we got some of our people to take the plunge and pick-up starter kits. One, a 41 year smoker!
But there are hurdles. Poverty, homelessness, remote communities with poor access to online ordering and of course the reliance on the revenues generated by the sale of tobacco and the catch 22 that that posses for our communities.
On the radio yesterday I heard that within native communities in Canada the rate of smokers is three times the national average of 17%. The workers at AHT see the effect that smoking tobacco is having on it’s community every day.
I read BrotherFrankie's post and was moved by the outpouring of the vaping community in supporting what he is doing in Florida.
Surely there is a way for us to promote the use of vaping within our own community. I for one would love to be invited to more community groups for more of the one-on-one introductions to what vaping is all about. A couple of hours of our time yesterday has resulted in four new vapors. Only about 75,000 more to go across Canada according to those stat I heard on the radio yesterday.
Me and Cobber had the great pleasure and honor this week to have been invited to the Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) to speak with staff there about vaping.
We were greeted warmly and I must say that there was definitely lots of excitement about an alternative to the stinkies.
As projectguy pointed out we got some of our people to take the plunge and pick-up starter kits. One, a 41 year smoker!
But there are hurdles. Poverty, homelessness, remote communities with poor access to online ordering and of course the reliance on the revenues generated by the sale of tobacco and the catch 22 that that posses for our communities.
On the radio yesterday I heard that within native communities in Canada the rate of smokers is three times the national average of 17%. The workers at AHT see the effect that smoking tobacco is having on it’s community every day.
I read BrotherFrankie's post and was moved by the outpouring of the vaping community in supporting what he is doing in Florida.
Surely there is a way for us to promote the use of vaping within our own community. I for one would love to be invited to more community groups for more of the one-on-one introductions to what vaping is all about. A couple of hours of our time yesterday has resulted in four new vapors. Only about 75,000 more to go across Canada according to those stat I heard on the radio yesterday.
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