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@qualia Oddly enough this exact thought has been on my mind a lot this week, since I came back from New Mexico with a TON of sagebrush for that purpose.

Collecting my own has become my best effort to address the appropriation issues too. Seeing those little sage kids in the store, with their native-feishizing packaging, makes me feel super-gross, as does, frankly, the fact that I only encountered the process via newage routes, despite (because of?) growing up in NM.

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@indi @qualia part of the argument for sage in particular besides it being sacred to native folks who use it is that it's being overharvested, likely because of white folks who are trying to pick up "smudging" (scare quotes b/c that ain't what they're actually doing since they're not native)

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@nventous @qualia Yeeeah, when I was in New Mexico I lost count of all the places I saw sage bundles for sale. And white sage doesn't even grow there. :P

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