They’re holding two of the pipes that were analyzed for nicotine residue. (WSU Photo) Tobacco plays a big role in Native American history and culture, predating Christopher Columbus’ arrival ...

(Credit: Karpova/Shutterstock) Tobacco kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. But the addictive substance has a complex history — for many Native Americans ... about residues on ...

through an examination of pipes from 1400 year-old archaeological sites, discovered that Native Americans in what is now Washington State weren't just smoking tobacco. The plant, a native to North ...

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The bowl for the tobacco in this pipe is in the top of the otter's head, and there is a small hole at one end to breathe in the smoke. The pipe was made by Native Americans living in what is today ...

The European acquisition of tobacco, and European pipe-smoking, symbolise for many Native Americans the expropriation of their homeland. From then on, in Europe and indeed in most of the world ...

Native American traditions ... their "prayers" into the pipe; once it's loaded, participants smoke the pipe to release those prayers to a supreme creator. (Smoking is optional.) ...

Experts say the disparity trails back, in large part, to Big Tobacco's history ... Media depictions of Native Americans smoking tobacco out of a pipe are a stereotype, she added.

Native Americans discovered the psychoactive effects of nicotine relatively early in human history. The oldest archaeological evidence of tobacco residue in a smoke pipe dates back 3000 years ago ...