Recently 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 domesticated tobacco species and how their cultivation and use may have led to the domestication of corn; potatoes; beans; and other food plants. It also analyzes many North American Indian practices and beliefs; including the concept that Tobacco is so powerful and sacred that the spirits themselves are addicted to it. The book presents medical data revealing the increasing rates of commercial tobacco use by Native youth and the rising rates of death among Native American elders from lung cancer; heart disease; and other tobacco-related illnesses. Finally; this volume argues for the preservation of traditional tobacco use in a limited; sacramental manner while criticizing the use of commercial tobacco.Contributors are: Mary J. Adair; Karen R. Adams; Carol B. Brandt; Linda Scott Cummings; Glenna Dean; Patricia Diaz-Romo; Jannifer W. Gish; Julia E. Hammett; Robert F. Hill; Richard G. Holloway; Christina M. Pego; Samuel Salinas Alvarez; Lawrence A Shorty; Glenn W. Solomon; Mollie Toll; Suzanne E. Victoria; Alexander von Garnet; Jonathan M. Samet; and Gail E. Wagner.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Teenage Soldier Tells His Story of the Civil WarBy Joel A. MooreElisha Stockwell signed up for the war at age fifteen. But his father objected and his name was crossed out. Later in the year the boy ran away and joined as a soldier when the captain of a friend's company lied a little. He survived the war and went on to marry and raise a family on a small farm. After his wife died in 1927; he was persuaded to write his memoirs. He was eighty-one years old at the time and nearly blind from cataracts. Aided by a thin stick of wood to guide his hand; Elisha wrote the memoirs with no chapters; very few paragraph breaks; and little punctuation. Kept for years by one of his daughters; Byron R. Abernathy was asked by that daughter in 1951 to have them typed into readable shape. Elisha's story was published in 1958; a vital and interesting account; of the humorous as well as the dirt and death and brutality of war.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. wonderfully told.By Lynette WestendorfA story from another time; wonderfully told.10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. good if first-person accounts are what you're afterBy davet1748@AOL.comI unwrapped and read this book on Christmas Day; so you can see it's a quick read. It reads like a conversation; since that's what it is; a transcribed chronology of this soldier's memory of his time in the union army. I wish he had written the book earlier in his life ( he waited something like 62 years) because he might have added different details and been more reflective on certain things. But as it is; his recollections give you a way to view the war first-hand. And; since none of us can really go back to 1862 ourselves; these accounts are the best way to do it. Stockwell's book does a great job of clarifying what a civil war soldier's number one concern was - getting something to eat. A large part of his remembering of the war is the continual search for food. The book really brings this home. As you read certain passages you can get a very clear picture in your mind just how hard of a life this soldierin' actually was. The book also gives a good account of how casually death came to some soldiers. They are killed when they are eating; standing in line; etc. by stray bullets. And Stockwell is a witness and his descriptions of these scenes bring home the absurd horror of war. If the book has a failing it is that it is not in 7 volumes. That way; when you finish this first part so quickly; there would be six more to read. So; quick read or not; Rest in peace; old soldier. I enjoyed your adventure.
