Our church more than ANY OTHER Native American Church that you're going to see has no stronger history and respect for our beloved Mother Medicine Cannabis than the Native American Church of the Morning Star and Half Moon... BECAUSE our church was blessed to us as being the Tuscarora tribe, who were also known as "The Long Shirt Wearers" and even More known as being "The Hemp Gatherers" out of All the tribes ever established upon Turtle Island. Though our tribe was not the Only to benefit from cannabis, we did so the most which is how it is we became known as the Hemp (Cannabis) gathering people, long before they turned our land into a nation!

 

We're renowned for our use of indigenous hemp for fiber and medicine, of coarse when our tribe speaks of "Hemp" we are referring to our beloved Cannabis Sativa, which we grew primarily  for the fiber and then the Cannabis Indica obviously we grew for medicine more than anything. Today's "Hemp" is what has come of our species (human being) playing Creator for profit "scientifically" altering the natural plants genetics, manipulating them for specific purpose such as to reduce if not remove the plants "THC" gene from the species to meet "standards" set upon the plant that would Naturally be Impossible for them to meet an only in attempt to appease our oppressive government.

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The Tuscarora received the seed from the Sky Woman who, as she fell from the sky, – grabbed seeds from the Tree of Life and they fell with her. All the gifts of earth fell from the sky, and then the Tuscarora were given the hemp seed directly from her. We were given instructions on how to take care of it, how to use it – how to pray with it. It is also said that the deer came and showed the Tuscarora where to find it, and it is regarded as the seed of peace, the seed of life.

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Back in early colonial times the Tuscarora Nation provided hemp for the land called Virginia. Explorer Jacques Cartier reported seeing wild hemp during three different voyages to Tkanatáhere (Canada) – in 1535, 1536 and 1541. On his last trip, he wrote: “The land groweth fulle of Hempe which groweth of it selfe, which is as good as possibly may be seen, and as strong.” It was ours.

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Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation [NOT PROHIBITION] of their vital medicinal plant

          " . . . We are instructed to carry a love for one another and to show a great respect for all the beings of this earth. We were shown that our life exists with the tree life, that our well-being depends on the well-being of the vegetable life, that we are close relations of the four-legged beings. In our ways spiritual consciousness is the highest form of politics. . . .

"We must recognize our enemies, the forces of darkness that now march across all lands in the Four Sacred Directions, throwing the shadow of death and destruction even into the seventh generation to come. . . .
"We must stand together, the four sacred colors of humankind, as the one family that we are in the interest of peace. . . .

"Our energy is the combined will of all people with the spirit of the natural world, to be of one body, one heart and one mind for peace. . . . "

The above words were spoken by Tadodaho, Chief Leon Shenandoah