Smoke signals : the native takeback of North America's tobacco industry / Jim Poling, Sr.

"When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers conclude...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poling, Jim, Sr
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : Dundurn, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Tobacco use.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Medicine.
Tobacco use > Health aspects > North America > History.
Tobacco industry > Government policy > North America.
Indiens d'Amérique > Tabagisme > Amérique du Nord.
Indiens d'Amérique > Médecine > Amérique du Nord.
Tabagisme > Aspect sanitaire > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Tabac > Industrie > Politique gouvernementale > Amérique du Nord.
Physical Description:253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Variant Title:
Native takeback of North America's tobacco industry.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Gift of the Manitou
  • Pandora's box
  • Medicine
  • Stealing to inhale
  • Saviour of Virginia
  • Le tabac canadien
  • Magnificent contradiction
  • The cigarette
  • Tobacco and bullets
  • Taxation
  • Smuggling
  • Return of the natives
  • Place of the partridges
  • Rotiskenrake':te
  • Civil war
  • Police
  • Guns and taxes
  • Rolling their own
  • We're not alone
  • Stereotyping
  • Dancing
  • The situation today
  • Endgame.