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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 27, 2006 16:21:04 GMT -6
A website visitor would like to know what the Natives smoked in their peace pipes.
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 27, 2006 16:35:23 GMT -6
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Oh . . . sorry, lost my head, I grow up in the 60s!
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 28, 2006 7:29:32 GMT -6
It's a serious question, Crazy. Quit having flashbacks!
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Post by Jim on Apr 28, 2006 8:03:49 GMT -6
I think a mixture of Red Willow Bark and other herbs.
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 28, 2006 8:30:47 GMT -6
Diane . . . OK . . . I snapped out of it
I believe they used a wide assort of herbs, depending on where each tribe lived in the country.
Sweet grass was used by some, and yes willow bark, probably some tobacco when they could get it.
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Post by shatonska on Apr 28, 2006 9:03:56 GMT -6
the mixture was called kinnikinnick (don't remember the tribe )
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 28, 2006 9:26:08 GMT -6
Was there an element of hallucinegens or something else that would have an effect on their mental abilities, or was it just pipe "tobacco" and just ceremonial?
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 28, 2006 9:43:28 GMT -6
I think kinnikinnick may have been used more by Indians in what is now Minnesota and possibly a little further west.
I have never heard of any hallucinegens included with any smoking material used by Native Americans other than peyote which was ingested rather than smoked, mostly during the Reservation Period and by the Comanche.
That's not to say that some type of herb provided a little "extra" but nothing like the stuff smoked by Indians in Central & South American (mostly for ceremonial use)
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Post by HinTamaheca on Jul 18, 2009 12:03:41 GMT -6
Traditionally, a Lakota Canumpa Wakan or Sacred Prayer Pipe, is filled with Cansasa. Cansasa is made from the dried inner bark of the Red Willow, (aka Red Osier Dogwood). Sometimes this is mixed with tobacco or Canli.
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