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What does pipestone mean?

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Noun
  1. A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes.
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The most recent and public difference of opinion over sacredness occurred just this summer, and it concerned a substance called pipestone.
Various analyses of numerous Havana Hopewell platform pipes from Illinois revealed most to be made of Elkhorn Creek pipestone.
A few days later two solitary teepees stood on the shore of the pond, under the red cliffs of the pipestone Quarry.
This crossing had been for generations the fording place of the red peoples in their pilgrimages to the pipestone quarry.
They are chiefly made of a soft stone something like the pipestone used by the present Indians which approaches soapstone.
After passing the pipestone falls, we entered country new to us, where the valley became much wider.

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