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Title:

Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer / edited by Joseph C. Winter.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xviii, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Tobacco use.
Indians of North America--Religion
Indians of North America--Health and hygiene.
Tobacco--United States--History.
Indians, North American--history
Tobacco.
Smoking--History.
Religion

Other Authors:

Winter, Joseph C.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-434) and index.

Contents:

Introduction to the North American tobacco species / Joseph C. Winter -- Traditional uses of tobacco by Native Americans / Joseph C. Winter -- North American indigenous nicotiana use and tobacco shamanism: the early documentary record, 1520-1660 / Alexander von Gernet -- Ethnobotanical notes from Zuni Pueblo / Carol B. Brandt -- Botanical description of the North American tobacco species / Joseph C. Winter -- Out of California: cultural geography of western North American tobacco / Julia E. Hammett -- Tobacco use, ecology, and manipulation in the prehistoric and historic southwestern United States / Karen R. Adams and Mollie S. Toll -- Tobacco on the plains: historical use, ethnographic accounts, and archaeological evidence / Mary J. Adair -- Tobacco in prehistoric eastern North America / Gail E. Wagner -- Prehistoric tobacco pollen in southwestern Colorado: distribution and possible contamination / Linda Scott Cummings -- Morphological distinctiveness of nicotiana pollen and the potential for identifying prehistoric southwest tobacco use through pollen analysis / Jannifer W. Gish -- From Earth Mother to Snake Woman: the role of tobaco in the evolution of Native American religious organization / Joseph C. Winter -- Food of the gods: biochemistry, addiction, and the development of Native American tobacco use / Joseph C. Winter -- Health effects of tobacco use by Native Americans: past and present / Jonathan M. Samet -- The Huichol Indians, tobacco, and pesticides / Patricia Díaz-Romo and Samuel Salinas Alvarez -- Native Americans and tobacco: Deer Person's gift or Columbus's curse? / Joseph C. Winter ... [et al.] -- Tricky tokes, those Coyote smokes: how Coyote learned the true power of tobacco / Lawrence A. Shorty.

Series:

The Civilization of the American Indian series v. 236

ISBN:

9780806132624 (cloth : alk. paper)
0806132620 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43095799

LCCN:

99087201

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)