The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...
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Peyote, sacred to Native Americans, is threatened by psychedelic renaissance and developmentEven though it is a controlled substance under federal law, an exemption afforded by a 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use ...
Nowhere is this more telling than in their respective religious beliefs and treatment of Native Americans. Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the ...
On Dec. 4, the two-year struggle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their sacred land and water ended – at least for now – when the Obama administration denied the easement ...
Their culture and religion place them in the role of stewards ... Frank LaPena, professor, Native American studies Frank LaPena, professor, Native American studies When two different people ...
Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant ...
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