Did America Indians kiss on the lips as an expression of affection?
Alan Hart
Corpus Christi, Texas
It’s difficult to get universal agreement among scholars on kissing. Some researchers believe that many American Indian tribes did not adopt kissing until after having contact with European settlers and Western cultures. In turn, Europeans learned it from the Romans, who got it from the Greeks, etc. Kissing is referenced in the Old Testament. Today, kissing is not practiced in 10 percent of t

True West November 2019
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- Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
- Ask The Marshall
- Geronimo Steals the Show
- If the State Won’t Do It
- Santa Fe Art Pilgrimage
- Ask the Marshall
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- Prescott, Arizona
- Western Roundup
- Pioneers and Their Pies
- Alaska at 60
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Bullets, Bread & Bad Behavior
- Ask the Marshall
- What History Has Taught Me: W. Michael Farmer, Author