Sotoya Organic Tying Tobacco

Sotoya Organic Tying Tobacco

Certified Organic Virginia Style Durum Tobacco

Offered in 1oz. Cloth Pouches
Grown With Respect and Prayer

Absolutely no chemical fertilizers or pesticides!

My Great Grandfathers grew an especially flavorful Virginia tobacco that was prized by the western Cherokee for use in daily prayer and blessing rituals. Early trading relationships between Cherokee and Lakota buffalo hunters in the Oklahoma territory brought this fragrant smoke to the Dakotas. The Durum style tobaccos were sold in cloth bags under names like Bull Durham and were flaked instead of cut. This made them easier to use for prayer bundles and pipe mixtures.

Sotoya is the Lakota word for Smoke. Tobacco is considered the herb most precious to Spirit as it carries our prayers and thanks when we make Sotoya.

Sotoya Organic Tobacco is the result of discussions my family has had over the years with many Indian people at pow-wows and medicine keepers on the Rez. Upon learning that we are tobacco farmers we are always asked for help in procuring natural tobacco grown without chemicals. We make this tobacco available today as it first became available 120 years ago, in hopes that it will again be used in prayer, humility and respect.

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Organic Tobacco Cloth Pouch 1 oz. pouch	Image
Organic Tobacco Flowers - Fragrant addition to your pipe mix	Coming Soon!
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N. rustica Native American Tobacco	Coming Soon!
2005 Organic Tobacco Crop In The Field	Image

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Here are the updated page links!

Full Price List and Ordering Information (effective August 2005)

Hummingbird Brings Back Tobacco

Respectful and Ceremonial Use of Tobacco

Grandad's Tobacco web site

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Click here to read the Spring/Summer 2005 Issue of RYO Magazine's review of Sotoya

"These are tobacco people, pure and simple, and are masters in the art of cultivation. They have nurtured USDA certified Organic plots and create pure organic tobacco, using experience gained over many, many generations.” Or click here for the rest of the story on our web site!

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Sotoya Organic Tobacco sells only to customers with whom we have an established relationship. We require Faxed proof of age. We do not sell to anyone under 21 years of age. We accept payments by money order or Credit Card

Sotoya Ceremonial Tobacco Company
2014 Redlawn Road
Boydton, Va. 23917

Wholesale Orders 434.738.6306

Contact Us: Sotoya Tobacco Web Person: John Lehmus