0 a decorated tobacco pipe used by Native Americans at official events, especially as a sign of peace
They had a pow-wow in a wigwam, but they could not smoke the peace pipe because they had broken it.
The characters in the myth seem to be tied integrally to the calumet (peace pipe) ceremony, and its association with kinship and adoption.
This consists of game, usually a deer, and pottery or a peace pipe.
A great banquet followed the solemn occasion, with a peace pipe being shared by the chiefs, each of them praising peace in turn.
That night, the medicine man pretends to offer peace, but uses the peace pipe to drug the visitors.
Two tribe leaders would smoke a peace pipe to symbolize the new peaceful relations that would be held between the tribes.
Leaders from the two sides smoked a peace pipe together and then broke off negotiations for the day.
Records indicate that the tradition continued through 1974, but the peace pipe exchange did not take place in 1975.
