Just another day in the regime of hate. I hope those 39% of Natives in the US that voted for this are disgusted with themselves.
Source: Political Science Now: Native American Voting Behavior in the 2024 Presidential Election
Just another day in the regime of hate. I hope those 39% of Natives in the US that voted for this are disgusted with themselves.
Source: Political Science Now: Native American Voting Behavior in the 2024 Presidential Election
Both are Native-owned, but I don't know anything about additives and their websites don't seem to have any details:
I've never tried either, though. Signal Tobacco has a decent selection but King Mountain is just cigarettes. Maybe someone else knows about the additives situation.
If you want just pure cured leaves, one non-Native tobacco business I do patronize is Whole Leaf Tobacco. Their stuff is about as unprocessed as you can get. They're also the only place I've found online that actual carries traditionally made & sourced perique. The only downside may be that they sell in kinda large quantities (I think my smallest order was 4 oz).
I consider this news-worthy, but the timing feels very suspicious. I'm actually kind of surprised because there are numerous mentions of Democrats (particularly Obama) doing lots of things for the tribes. Given how much the current US regime attempts to control dissemination of objective facts, this feels like it carries a sinister subtext.
I will likely sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this announcement hits me like "We are stating facts about some good things we (The U.S. as a whole) have done so we (Republicans in power) can argue we are not racist when we begin oppressing you for no reason like our other perceived enemies."
Thanks for sharing! I had read a little bit about the difficulties in attempting to retain the traditional language, so I wondered if there were other struggles similar to we're facing here in the US. I know how you feel about the cultural food thing. I was lucky enough to be around traditional food and I'll admit it's a little emotionally hard to see people holding up frybread as the default example of what they think of "Native American" food, especially given its history.
Here's the link to the original article from April 1969: The Little Brother of War