Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, the bearberry-bush, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, the leaves and bark of which were formerly smoked (like tobacco) by the Canadian Indians, and are still so used by many of the French Canadians; also, a mixture of this kind for smoking. Compare
kinnikinick .
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It was in reality an Indian word, sagakomi — see Thwaites (ed.), Lahontan's
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
hernesheir commented on the word sagakomi
Put some of this in your tobacco pipe.
January 22, 2013