Historical influences on contemporary tobacco use by northern plains and Southwestern American Indians

American Journal of Public Health

Volume 106, Issue 2, February 2016, Pages 246-255

  (Review)

Kunitz, S.J. 

 

Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 265 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY, United States 

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Abstract

There are great differences in smoking- and tobacco-related mortality between American Indians on the Northern Plains and those in the Southwest that are best explained by (1) ecological differences between the two regions, including the relative inaccessibility and aridity of the Southwest and the lack of buffalo, and (2) differences between French and Spanish Indian relations policies. The consequence was the disruption of inter- and intratribal relations on the Northern Plains, where as a response to disruption the calumet (pipe) ceremony became widespread, whereas it did not in the Southwest. Tobacco was, thus, integrated into social relationships with religious sanctions on the Northern Plains, which increased the acceptability of commercial cigarettes in the 20th century. Smoking is, therefore, more deeply embedded in religious practices and social relationships on the Northern Plains than in the Southwest.

Indexed keywords

EMTREE medical terms: American Indian; buffalo; ceremony; human; mortality; smoking; social interaction; tobacco use

ISSN: 00900036 CODEN: AJPEASource Type: Journal Original language: English

DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302909Document Type: Review

Publisher: American Public Health Association Inc.

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