Some Native Americans carry a sealed medicine bag around their neck, which may contain one of the four sacred herbs: sage, tobacco, cedar or sweetgrass. This bag is used for medical purposes or to represent the individual’s beliefs, religion and culture. Ask to see what is inside when open, but when sealed, it is sacred and is not meant to be reopened. If opened, this is seen as disrespectful and may upset the person. In certain instances, indigenous people roll their own tobacco in a paper like the paper used to role marijuana, so it is misconstrued as that.