Squamish Nation Tea Company
Indigenous Tea Company
Raven and hummingbird tea co, rhtea.co, Squamish nation owned indigenous herbal tea company, mother daughter family business by Cease Wyss and Senaqwila Wyss.
For 30+ years, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss has been studying ethnobotany, indigenous plant use and medicinal herbs, and in her learning, has raised her daughter Senaqwila with these teachings.
Passing this knowledge to each generation is vital to their culture and health. With the newest generation, Senaqwila teachers her daughters, Kamaya, age 5, Lily, age 10, are already absorbing their traditional knowledge and use of the Squamish language in their upbringing as well.
Raven and hummingbird tea, indigenous owned tea business, has been well known for over 30+ years from small scale cottage-business, well respected amongst the pow wow and craft fair circuits all across the lower mainland.
Through the covid-19 pandemic they faced shortages in packaging and supplies, faced hardships among many small business owners during these trying times, but have returned to continue to sell their medicines as herbal teas, salves, tinctures, and more!
Stay tuned to their website and social media for updates, to learn more about the ingredients that make up not only a delicious cup of tea, but hold power in the beauty of inter generational knowledge transfer and indigenous plant medicines.
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Our products are a combination of our traditional teachings about our plant relatives, to share the beautiful teachings that have been passed to us, and to create a bond with understanding the life cycle of our indigenous plants, to respect their gifts and medicinal uses, and share these with all people.
Heal Me Flu & respiratory tincture
(C$ 7.00 shipping)
Glycerine Tinctures : Veggie Glycerine, Water, Raspberry Leaf, Lobaria Lichen, Yarrow Flowers, Licorice Root, Mullien Leaf, Rosehips, Hawthorne Berries Great for respiratory systems, anxiety, heart and blood pressure concerns, tummy aches and nausea, body aches from fevers, lowers fevers, soothes throats and lungs.
Indigenous Teas
Cease Wyss has been blending teas with Indigenous Plant medicines for over 30+ years.
Through building relationships and a deep understanding of the plants that we pick, speak with, nurture, love, and appreciate, you are able to feel that sense of belonging and love with each cup!
Our relationship with plants and with our mother earth are what keep us grounded, and it is our passion to share these plant teachings with all walks of life and to also share our teachings that the plants gift us.
Cease and Senaqwila Wyss come together as a small, mother-daughter business that promotes your health and wellbeing through connection to Indigenous plant medicines.
We thank the plants, our ecosystem, the four-legged, winged, swimming, and all our relations.
