Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer. Edited by JOSEPH C. WINTER. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 2000. xviii + 454 pp., 78 photographs, 30 maps, 50 figures, 60 tables, references, index. $65.00 (Cloth, ISBN 0-8061-3262-0).
Here is the comprehensive source on the past and present relationships between Native Americans and tobacco from the Arctic through Central America. Tobacco use among Native South Americans has received coverage in other works (e.g., Wilbert 1987), although with relatively little attention to the archaeological record. The strength of Winter's book is that it incorporates material from historical, archaeological, medical, …