Cigar store Indian

All

right, we're going to learn about some Indians.

Ready? So, De Copa claims the Cigar Store Indian is a statue of him.

The true origin of Cigar Store Indians dates back to 17th century England.

They were a way to advertise tobacco to a largely illiterate populace.

Native Americans introduced Europeans to tobacco in colonial America in the late 16th century, soon after the tobacco industry adopted the figure as a highly visible symbolic trademark.

The first cigar store Indians were created in 1617, there were small countertop figures or flat profile boards called Virginiemen, named after the Virginia colony where the first tobacco plantations were established.

So even if it was made after him, it would mean he's several hundred years old.

That is one of the last survivors of a banishing race.

A cigar store Indian.

A cigar

store Indian?

Yes, tomahawk and all.

Well, I...

Well, you can't blame me for being...

You

No.

That is one of the last survivors of a vanishing race, a cigar store Indian.

[laughs]

A cigar store Indian?

Yeah, tomahawk and all.

Well, I...

Well, you can't blame me for being-

[laughs]