NATIVE AMERICAN
HEALTH & WELLNESS VIDEOS

Culture and Tobacco

ONE BREATH AT A TIME - new!

  This is a smoking prevention and community empowerment video.   The 29 min. documentary focuses on Native Communities who are using progressive approaches in dealing with tobacco misuse.  Featuring Native tobacco experts, health professionals, community workshops and personal testimonials -One Breath at a Time" is one of the first documentaries to address the smoking issue from an aboriginal perspective.  The video recognizes the sacred role tobacco has played in Native communities for thousands of years, as well as social pressures affecting aboriginal people; and the program acknowledges that getting people to "quit" often means empowering whole communities.  The video provides advice, solutions and examples of how communities can best approach smoking and chewing of tobacco in their area - and create positive steps to get people on the road to good health.

Produced by the B.C. Aboriginal Tobacco Working Group in association with Penticton Indian Band

HS - Adult 29 min.
Copyright 1998
VHS $150

  WE PRAY WITH TOBACCO

Through interviews, storytelling, traditional singing, drumming, and reenactments, the story of tobacco and its sacred significance to Native American communities is told. These cultural traditions have existed from the beginning of tribal memory and are still practiced today in many traditional communities and Native American circles. Demonstrated in We Pray With Tobacco are the wide range of cultural uses and tobacco's specific powers combined with other herbs or alone.

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