Here is an article about Lawrence Shorty, a Navajo and Choctaw, and Tionantati: Native Tobacco People Farm, an Native-owned enterprise that is "dedicated to bringing Native grown tobaccos back to American Indian people." From the Native Americans and the Environment section of the Center for Conservation Biology web site at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Traditional Native American Tobacco (TNAT) Seed Bank and Education Program
Here is a description of TNAT, a program at the University of New Mexico that is dedicated to "collecting, preserving, growing and distributing the seeds of the many traditional Native American types of tobacco and educating Native Americans about the dangers of tobacco misuse."
Cedar, Sage, Sweetgrass, and Tobacco
This web site describes the uses of the four sacred medicines by the Yankton Sioux. From the Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota.
A Capsule History of Tobacco (Tobacco BBS)
Here is a history of tobacco use by both Native and non-Native peoples from the Tobacco BBS, an extensive collection of information related to tobacco (health, litigation, history, statistics, news, and more).
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