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

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2000], ©2000.

xviii, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

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 studies of New Mexico Solanaccae pollen / Richard C. Holloway and Glenna Dean -- 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 tobacco 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.

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