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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here for Dave, so it's a short stuff.

And we're talking about what you might know is piecepipes, but as it turns out, that's not the right word for it at all.

So, although we'll probably accidentally call it peace pipes a bunch of times,

they're really called sacred or ceremonial pipes.

That's right. That whole notion of passing the peace pipe,

something that American settlers and soldiers saw,

and they thought like, hey, they're smoking that thing during a treaty signing,

so that must be a peace pipe. And while it's true that they might have smoked those during

treaty signings, it turns out they smoke them a lot. So it's a bit of a misnomer.

Yeah, they come up in all sorts of different parts of Native American culture. Something I thought was really interesting is that I could not find a mention of any

North American tribe that doesn't use ceremonial pipes.

And so, like, they found old ones from Florida up to the Midwest.

I think they found it in the Hopewell culture in Ohio,

from the southwest up to the Pacific Northwest, like all over. They use piece pipes, which tells you

like this is a really old tradition and it predates some of the tribes that eventually kind of

grew out of other tribes that were older.

Yeah, for sure. And again, they just call them pipes.

I think there's a broader term that you can use if you want to get more specific called a calumet.

And apparently that's from the French word, would that be Chalome, like Timothy?

Yeah.

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