Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer

Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent KillerRecently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans continue to view tobacco when used properly as a life affirming and sacramental substance that plays a significant role in Native creation myths and religious ceremonies. This definitive work presents the origins, history, and contemporary use (and misuse) of tobacco by Native Americans. It describes wild and

In this captivating journey

spiritual ceremony

A groundbreaking and provocative coming-of-age story

When Iktomi and Troll eventually find their peoples

and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled

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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington

With a keen sense of the environment

Yukon history

one-part practical toolkit

The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom

some of them well known-like Charles Eastman