Lower Sioux Indian Community focuses on keeping tobacco sacred

Mat Pendleton grew up on the Lower Sioux reservation, and over the years he has learned a lot about his culture, especially as it relates to tobacco and keeping it sacred.

When Pendleton talks about tobacco, he is not referring to the commercial tobacco one might purchase in a store.

Rather it is the traditional tobacco from the branches of the red willow tree.

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