American Indian Midwife, Medicinal Tobacco

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A Pawnee Indian woman in labor is squatting with her back against a tree; kneeling before her is another woman who is blowing smoke from a pipe between the woman's legs. Pawnee people (also Paneassa, Pari, Pariki) are a Caddoan-speaking Native American tribe. They are federally recognized as the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.

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