"Peace pipe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ceremony of smoking the peace pipe was concluded, Pontiac delivered a short address of welcome, to which the major responded. He demanded to know the cause of the morning's outbreak, and assured the Indians that their just grievances should be remedied, provided they gave up for punishment all who had been implicated ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... no Indian can hold a council without smoking the Peace Pipe, and when the council is over, he empties out the ashes of the pipe. So that when all those councils were over, when the matter was settled, when the missionary was buried, and when the warrior had gone to the ghost land, there came solemnly poking its white bowl and ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... together his men and a council was held, in which every one smoked the peace pipe, including Fred and Matthew, who had to submit to this ordeal ...
— Three Young Pioneers - A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country • John Theodore Mueller
... evidence of inter-tribal trade. Were positive evidence lacking, Indian institutions would disclose the fact. Differences in language were obviated by the sign language,[10] a fixed system of communication, intelligible to all the western tribes at least. The peace pipe,[11] or calumet, was used for settling disputes, strengthening alliances, and speaking to strangers—a sanctity attached to it. Wampum belts served in New England and the middle region as money and as symbols in the ratification of treaties.[12] The Chippeways had an institution ...
— The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin • Frederick Jackson Turner
... picnic, eh! The gathering of the wild tribes—anything you want to call it, so we smoke the peace pipe." ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter |
