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When American Indians were showing European settlers how to smoke from a calumet, or peace pipe, they handed the white men the calumet and said, “Tobacco, tobacco!” This was the Indian word for the “tube of the pipe,” which the Indians wanted the strangers to put into their mouths. The Europeans thought that the Indians were cal
